Children's book reviews
Sep 21, 2010
This week’s book is another alphabet book. I KNOW, I know, I’m sorry. It’s just that my child is very interested in letters lately. It’s probably my own damned fault for keeping foam letters and letter puzzles around in her playroom. →MORE...


Sep 14, 2010
Honestly, I’m not certain what it is about Jeremy Draws a Monster, written and illustrated by Peter McCarty, that I find so alluring. It’s a short, imaginative tale about a lonesome boy who scribbles up a demanding monster of a friend. →MORE...


I was happy there all by myself, alone at the End of the World. M.T. Anderson’s Me, All Alone, at the End of the World is a fascinating book about the joys of solitude. It has an underlying environmental message as →MORE...


Aug 31, 2010
Donald loves numbers, which is probably how we wound up with no fewer than six counting books in our midst. I do not love numbers, but of all the counting books we read to Charlotte, I have to admit that I →MORE...


Aug 24, 2010
Book! Book! Book!, written by Deborah Bruss and illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke, is one of a kind. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who find themselves bored when the children return to school. Together, they march →MORE...

