by Megan McIntyre | Jul 8, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Author Maria Loretta Giraldo and illustrator Nicoletta Bertelle have created a fresh, endearing, and memorable book about trying new things and not giving up. Before reading and confirming on the back page, the book just felt like Giraldo and Bertelle had worked...
by Megan McIntyre | Sep 25, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
The best line in the book is “the ocean gets its saltiness from the tears of misunderstood sharks!” How is that for a teaser for Ame Dyckman and Scott Magoon’s book, Misunderstood Shark? When I first read the book, a certain Kelly Clarkson song kept...
by Megan McIntyre | Sep 18, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
The title gives it away! This book by Jenna Lettice and Colleen Madden is set to the age-old holiday favorite “Twelve Days of Christmas.” It is made more age appropriate and catchy by utilizing the phrasing ‘on the [insert number] day of preschool, we all...
by Megan McIntyre | Aug 24, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Humor
Tammi Sauer and Guy Francis have created a story out of knock knock jokes. This feat was unexpected. I anticipated a book with a few jokes or the same joke, or jokes and a really annoying main character but instead the jokes create the whole story about a bear...
by Megan McIntyre | Aug 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
My guess is, that if you are reading this review, you might just have a wordy birdy or few in your life. Wordy Birdy is endearing, observant, verbally gifted, probably about age four in toddler years and a ‘terrible listener,’ which for the purpose of this...
