by Megan McIntyre | Mar 1, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
While this book is penned for children and is essentially a retelling of the endless song we all know (e-i-e-i-o), the drawings are a bit dark/spooky/muted in color for our personal taste, like a sepia sort of Tim Burton style. The illustrations did not seem to...
by Megan McIntyre | Feb 12, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Be Brave, Little Penguin is from the creators of Giraffes Can’t Dance (a favorite book at our house currently). Pip-Pip steals the show and your heart as the main character. He is an adorable, yet hesitant and scared penguin who doesn’t want to swim. The...
by Megan McIntyre | Jan 30, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Poetry
Daniel Miyares has illustrated a vivid, engaging version of Langston Hughes’ 1924 poem “Dream Variation.” And despite almost a hundred years since it was penned, Hughes’ seventy-seven-word work still rings with truth and dreams. While we don’t have...
by Megan McIntyre | Jan 18, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Penguins Love Their ABC’s, by Sarah Aspinall, is an enjoyable ABC book, featuring six adorable penguins who go in search of the alphabet hidden in the snow, using pictures that start with the letter they are looking for. The colorful illustrations are not too...
by Megan McIntyre | Jan 11, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
This book uses inventive story weaving in classic fairy tales (and an unexpected character, Judy, who resembles Edna from The Incredibles by the way) into a new tale of a boy who loves to cook. In reading this book with my toddler, I realized that he did not get most...