Reviews
A Review of "Delia’s Dull Day: An Incredibly Boring Story" in Kirkus Reviews
An amusing visual riff on the frequent refrain “nothing ever happens to… Delia recounts the details of her incredibly dull yesterday. While her words describe a pedestrian day from breakfast to bedtime, the illustrations tell a completely different story. While Delia’s eyes are View →
A Review of "Pardon Me" in Kirkus Reviews
Back for her third outing, Stella reports, “If you write at least three books that are all connected then you have a… All is not well for Stella: Her BFF has moved far away, leaving a serious sense of loneliness and loss, which is made all the wors View →
A Review of "The Quilt Walk" in Kirkus Reviews
When 10-year-old Emmy Blue Hatchett’s father announces that the family will be traveling from their home in Illinois to the frontier town of Golden, Colo., the reaction to the news is as varied as the colors in one of their beloved hand-pieced… It is 1863, and the Colorado G View →
A Review of "The People of Twelve Thousand Winters" in School library Journal
Gr 2-4–Walking Turtle and Little Talk are children of the Lenni Lenape, living in an undetermined time in a region now part of New Jersey. They seem wise beyond their years as they convey the way of life and some of the cultural practices of their people. Ten-year-old Walking Turtle… View →
A Review of "A Giraffe Did One" in Publishers Weekly
In the tradition of Everyone Poops, Pallotta’s gently mischievous story features cute animals that share one thing in common: occasional flatulence. “A flock of birds flew by. OK, who did it? We’ll never know which one it was.” Meanwhile, a fox, seen peering coyly around a tree, “was… View →
A Review of "Track That Scat!" in Publishers Weekly
Stepping in animal poop is rarely cause for celebration, but it is for a girl named Finn in a story that invokes not one, not two, but three meanings of the word “scat.” On a wildlife walk with her basset hound, Finn introduces her brand-new sneakers to a potpourri of animal scat:… View →
A Review of "The Voyage of the Sea Wolf" in Kirkus Reviews
Ahoy ye mateys! Clamber on board the Sea Wolf for a salty… As the first in Bunting’s new series ended, 15-year-old Catherine, The Pirate Captain’s Daughter (2011), had been marooned on a desolate island with William, cabin boy and love of her young life, and the situation View →
A Review of "Twice as Good" in Golf Digest
William (Bill) Powell’s story is an inspiring one, to be sure: The grandson of slaves who was raised in Minerva, Ohio, and found it difficult to pursue his love of golf because of discrimination. It prompted him to build his own golf course, Clearview Golf Club, which opened in… View →
A Review of "Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band" in Washington Parent
With his wild, feathered head and bass-guitar skills, Rooster is one cool cat … er, fowl. And with the big barnyard talent show coming up, he wants to put together the best jazz band ever. Author Kwame Alexander riffs off the names of, and introduces young readers to, jazz greats,… View →
A Review of "Frog and Friends: Best Summer Ever" in Booklist Online
Like the other Frog and Friends titles in the I Am a Reader! series, this installment features three small-scale adventures. In the first tale, Frog and Little Brown Bat compare and contrast their traits and characteristics, declaring that they “do not have to be the same to be friends.” View →