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Robot Zot! By: Jon Scieszka Illustrated By: David Shannon This is a fun story to read aloud. You could do a lot with the Robot Zot voice. Robot Zot is on a mission to defeat the Earth Army. He does a lot of damage, but then he meets his Queen. He also...
The Lion and the Mouse By: Jerry Pinkney This picture book will hold you spellbound as you gaze at Pinkney’s masterful illustrations. I would consider it a wordless picture book, although you do get some ‘squeaks’ ‘whooos’ and ‘rooaarrrss’. The text is...
The Mermaid Queen By: Shana Corey Illustrated By: Edwin Fotheringham What a delightful picture book about a little known woman in history! Alright, at the time, she was quite well known, but can any of you tell me the name of the lady who invented the...
The Road to Oz: Twists, Turns, Bumps and Triumphs in the Life of L. Frank Baum By: Kathleen Krull Illustrated By: Kevin Hawkes Pretty much every single American has seen or read The Wizard of Oz . How many of us know anything about the man who wrote the...
Never Smile at a Monkey By: Steve Jenkins The title really says it all with this one! This is a non-fiction book that is full of facts about various animals that you will most likely want to avoid while out and about. The monkey on the cover is a rhesus...
The Curious Garden By: Peter Brown This is truly a delightful story. Liam is a young boy who enjoys spending time outdoors in a dull, gray city where everyone stays inside. One day during his wandering walk, he discovers the way to the old railway that...
Duck! Rabbit! By: Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld Basically, there are two people arguing about whether or not the picture on the cover is a duck or a rabbit. I can see both, but sometimes these types of illustrations can be difficult (like...
Read It, Don’t Eat It! By: Ian Schoenherr Do you have a child who has an eating issue with books? And I’m not talking babies with board books, but slightly older children who are learning how to take care of their books (toys, clothes, etc.). This is...
11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System By: David A. Aguilar Really? 11 planets? I’m still trying to wrap my head around the whole Pluto is a dwarf planet thing, then I find out there’s two new dwarf planets called Ceres and Eris. Did you know that...
Galileo’s Leaning Tower Experiment By: Wendy Macdonald Illustrated By: Paolo Rui Young Massimo drops a loaf of bread and a wheel of cheese to his uncle as he passes below the town bridge. One day a man asks him how he gets them both to land in the boat...
Afghan Dreams: Young Voices from Afghanistan By: Tony O'Brien and Mike Sullivan Photographs By: Tony O'Brien This is a truly touching book. Journalist O'Brien and filmmaker Mike Sullivan interview children from Afghanistan, tell them the story...
Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude By: Jonah Winter Illustrated By: Calef Brown Okay, from reading the endnote I understand that the title is an imitation of Gertrude Stein's most quoted line, "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."...
Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom By: Eric Wight I generally don't read the more middle-grade aged books. That being said, I'm also trying to read a plethora in short-order to prepare for a presentation - and I think I am in lurve with Frankie...
Rhyming Dust Bunnies By: Jan Thomas This simple yet complex look at rhyme will have adults and children laughing right from the beginning! Ed, Ned, Ted and Bob "rhyme all the time," which is obviously impossible right from the start as Bob does...
Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution By: Laurie Halse Anderson Illustrated By: Matt Faulkner First of all, on the very first spread there's a little glossary of ‘Who's Who' which I think...
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