In which I recap my year. Hello Blog Friends! *waves* It’s the end of the year and although I seemed to have shown disdain for the pomp and circumstance of the season (this year I had no turkey or tree) the idea of a 2012 recap was not to be missed. The stress of the holidays was something that I…
I love Bob Shea and am happy to share his newest Dinosaur book with you!Dinosaur is like your typical preschooler, a little
All sheep wants to do is go to sleep but all of the farmyard animals have other ideas. In Karen Beaumont’s No Sleep for the Sheep! Sheep’s plan for bedtime is ruined when animal after animal noisily wakes sheep. In this fun rhyming book, children will be able to make animal sounds along with the animals waking poor sheep. The text is…
Ally Condie’s Matched starts off with Cassia Reyes obediently looking forward to her ceremony to be matched. In this futuristic society, there are rules and these rules include a society making matches for its citizens. Cassia is pleased to see the face of her good childhood friend Xander and knows her match is made, but wait…there appears a second boy, another…
From School Library Journal Grade 1–3—Imitation can indeed be sincere flattery, as Rex proves in his slightly eerie reworking of Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd’s classic bedtime tale. The young bunny has been replaced by a little monster, but he still wears striped pajamas as he lies in his bed and says good night to his surroundings. “In the…