Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match / Marisol McDonald No Combina, by Monica Brown, illustrated by Sara Palacios This is the first book my younger daughter brought home from her school library that she was excited about. Part of this is no doubt due to the fact that unlike most of the books in her school library, it had […]
This Is the Rope, by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by James Ransome When Jacqueline Woodson started winning awards, I hadn’t read any of her books. I decided to rectify that, and we chose this book on a library outing. We’ve had it out a couple of times, because it is excellent. When you read it, you […]
When the Shadbush Blooms, by Carla Messinger and Susan Katz, illustrated by David Kanietakeron Fadden With Thanksgiving approaching, this is a great book for anyone who wants to try to have a discussion about what Native American life actually was like- and is like. Unlike so many books about Native Americans, this one includes the present […]
The Last Stop on Market Street, by Matt De La Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson This is one of the books we currently have out from the library, and I love it so much that I decided to post about it right away. It is a sweet story about a little boy riding the bus […]
The Monster in the Mudball, by S.P. Gates This is an action-packed chapter book about a monster that escapes from an ancient mudball into modern England, and the efforts of a couple of kids and one seriously cool Artifacts Inspector to recapture it. The characters in this story are diverse- the kids are Asian, the […]
Juneteenth for Mazie, by Floyd Cooper I am adding an extra post for this month, because my heart hurts, and in some small way writing this makes me feel better. It is going to be longer than most of my posts here, because what I want to say about this book needs some explanation. Like all […]
Kitchen God, by Lei Xiong, illustrated by Kim Xiong, translated by Clarissa Yu Shen This is a charming story about the kitchen god who watches over the household, told from the point of view of a child in the house. My older daughter got this book as a birthday present not long after she started […]
Corduroy, by Don Freeman Sometimes, you read a picture book that is considered a classic and think it is only held in such high regard because people are nostalgic for their own childhood. But sometimes, you can see why the book’s popularity persists. Corduroy is definitely an example of the latter case. The story of […]