I’m a book snob, and I’ll be the first one to admit it. For my own personal reading, my preferences aren’t too narrow, but I have certain genres that I seem to stick with. When it comes to what I read with my young children, though… that’s a different story. Picture books may have only…
Category Archives: Dawn
New Picture Books from Disney Hyperion
With the slew of picture books that come out every month, it can often be hard to keep up. (I try, really, I do try!) There isn’t any guarantee that every new book that comes out will be interesting to your child, or even that it will be a piece of high quality children’s literature,…
Breadcrumbs, a 5-Star Read with Giveaway
While I’ve been an avid reader my whole life, up until a few years ago, it had been a long, long time since I had experienced what’s known as “middle grade fiction.” Not since I was in the 9 to 12 age range had I read this genre, but it reentered my life a while…
Speaking Out: Kirkus Reviews Blog
From the start, I want to emphasize that even if you don’t find yourself personally identifying with the title of the collection of short stories, Speaking Out: LGBTQ Youth Stand Up, please do not simply move on. The stories in here may revolve around lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered adolescent characters, but the messages presented…
So Near
The phrase sounds so cliche– every parent’s worst nightmare. But, in So Near, the new novel by Liza Gyllenhaal, it’s the most fitting way to describe the heart-wrenching plot the unfolds. Jenny and Cal Horigan have a delightful happiness with their lives. They live in their hometown, a tight community where Cal’s business thrives under…
On Reading: Read for the Record
Picture it: a parent and a young child, snuggled together with a picture book in hand. It’s a beautiful and familiar sight for many of our readers, I know. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for many children across the U.S., and early and frequent exposure to books can be one of the most important factors…
Me Again
Six years can go by so quickly for some people. For Jonathan Hooper, the protagonist in Keith Cronin’s new novel Me Again, those six years changed his life, for he was in a coma that he was never expected to awaken from. Experiencing a stroke in one’s twenties isn’t a common occurrence, but that was…
Bailey, Review and Giveaway
The school bus is pulling away, but one student is running hard to catch it before it leaves. That backpack-wearing elementary schooler just might be enjoying the chasing a bus part more than usual, because that student is a dog and the title character of Harry Bliss’s new picture book, Bailey. Back to school picture…
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