by Dawn | Dec 1, 2011 | Picture Book
This book gives the young a sensory approach to learning this dark color. Full color photographs invite the reader to interact with things that represent the color black by touch and lifting flaps. I particularly liked the way the sense of smell was included with a...
by Dawn | Nov 11, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Fans of Judy Moody who are ready for a challenge will love Megan McDonald’s latest series—The Sisters Club. In Cloudy with a Chance of Boys, the third installment in the Sisters Club series, middle sister Stevie is discovering girls in her sixth grade class seem to be...
by Dawn | Nov 11, 2011 | Picture Book
Double Play is a fun school story written around the addition concept of doubling. Set during recess time, two monkey friends encounter doubling objects and friends as they play. Told in rhyme, each page is vibrantly illustrated with the objects that the friends are...
by Dawn | Nov 11, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Stray cats are taking over Billy’s town, and citizens are pressuring city leaders to fix the problem. Many in the town are openly abusing the cats, throwing things at them and trying to drive them away. When Billy finds an abandoned, injured stray, he takes her home...
by Dawn | Nov 11, 2011 | Poetry
What do you get when you take a word, take all the letters apart and make it into a poem? That is just what Bob Raczka did with his new book, Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed From a Single Word. This is not an ordinary book of prose and poetry. It is fun!! It is part...
