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It’s strange to think that Nursery Rhymes prove so difficult to round-up. I’ve done my best. After all, the art of the nursery rhyme is nothing to scoff at. There’s a reason they’ve kicked around all these centuries. Reading nursery rhymes to small children does wonders for brain development, to say nothing of the fact […]
Flannery, by Lisa Moore Groundwood Press, May 2016 Reviewed from a final copy Here’s a title with three stars, coming at us from a small press. We’ve got realistic fiction — more Canadian fiction, actually (yeah, OK, I recognize that this is not actually a genre). Moore is an adult novelist visiting the YA landscape […]
So what do we mean when we say “Board Book Adaptations” exactly? Well, you’re probably familiar with the phenomenon of taking a picture book and chopping it down into a board book When this is done poorly the end product is strange and squished. The most egregious example of this might be the Cloudy With […]
SLJ's 2016 Best Books list celebrates 50 years of acknowledging top titles—and the power of books to transport readers and change lives.
We kick off our 31 Days, 31 Lists at the lowest age level imaginable. Finding quality board books for babies and toddlers is a challenge. It’s not enough to simply have thick pages. You need to be able to engage the interest and attention of someone who is still developing their visual and auditory processing […]
Gr 7 Up—In 1892, Lizzie Borden, a well-to-do young woman from Fall River, MA, went on trial for the brutal murder of her father and stepmother...
Gr 9 Up—Henry Denton is abducted by aliens who tell him that by merely pushing a button, he can save Earth from annihilation...
Gr 1–4—Detective Gordon (a bumbling toad) and his protégé, Buffy (a cheerful mouse), tackle cases involving missing cake tins and an unidentified neighborhood bully...
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