Edward is a giraffe with problems about his long neck. Yes, he can’t understand why it’s soooo long! He thinks its too “necky.” He seems to hang around the wrong critters who stare and talk about him, like the alligator, [...]
By the same pair that gave us There’s a Monster in Your Book comes There’s a Dragon in Your Book. This time there’s a cute green dragon for your little one to interact with! This is the kind of book that is best read with a companion (either a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If your middle school reader does not like reading, that will change after he reads The Losers Club. Kids will easily identify with Alec as he navigates his way through school, bullying, and finding his “spot” in the middle school pecking order. [...]
All Barbie lovers out there will learn about Barbie’s famous creator in this short story! Ruth Handler was the creative and artistic inventor of the Barbie doll. Her motive for this invention was her young daughter, Barbara, who had [...]
N.D. Wilson’s prequel to his 100 Cupboards series, The Door Before, is a tale that combines suspense, fantasy, action, and humor. This story follows Hyacinth Maxine Smith, whose parents work for the Order, an organization that tracks down evil [...]
Fantastic! The first time reading through the book, my two-and-a-half-year-old picked right up on the idea of placing random items into the story. We gathered a few items from around the house (a dinosaur, pig, ambulance, and boat) and created a [...]
Super Hero High is a special place where super heroes in- training work on their skills. Barbara (a.k.a. Batgirl) works at the school as a tech whiz, but actually attends high school elsewhere. Batgirl is mesmerized by the other super heroes’ [...]
The Magic Tree House Incredible Fact Book, by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce, is great fun for kids! The book is filled with snippets of information on a variety of subjects. The photographs are beautifully done, drawing the reader [...]
For tired parents wanting to establish a routine to get their children to bed, Christina Geist’s playful book Buddy’s Bedtime Battery may just be the ticket. Buddy wants to keep pretending to be a robot, even though it’s bedtime. “I am not a [...]
Bestselling author Emily Winfield Martin’s latest book, The Littlest Family’s Big Day, follows a little bear family (and their tiny adopted fox) as they explore their new home in the woods. The family moves into their house in a tree trunk and [...]
Dragons and Mythical Creatures is part of the Magic Tree House series and is the nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #55, Night of the Ninth Dragon, which explored the world of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. Dragons and Mythical Creatures [...]
Darling Dimple is an orphan – she doesn’t actually have a dimple, her half-blind surrogate mother Jane named her after her actual mother died. Her universe is the royal castle in the kingdom of Eliora, in the employ of Princess Mariposa. [...]
Christmas Eve arrives and Babymouse puts out cookies for Santa, but this story is not your traditional Christmas story. Babymouse cannot stop eating Santa’s cookies and suddenly they are all gone. Of course, Babymouse does not want what typical [...]
Most young girls dream of being a princess, however, when Danica finds herself engaged to the King of Versailles thanks to her mother’s machinations, it’s the last thing she ever wanted. While the entirety of Glitter takes place in and around [...]
What Pet Should I Get? is an adorable, previously unreleased children’s book by Dr. Seuss. The story is simple, and follows a brother and sister as they try to settle on a pet. However, the store is full of choices, from dogs and cats, to the [...]
For young readers of the beloved Magic Tree House series – in which siblings Jack and Annie discover a magic tree house in the woods near their home and are sent on adventures through space and time to meet historical figures, encounter [...]
Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Uni the Unicorn offers an unexpected twist in the make-believe realm. Uni, a young unicorn with an active imagination, believes little girls must really exist and she fantasizes about one day making friends with a real [...]
Children’s author Mary Pope Osborne has been taking kids on adventures across the globe and through time with siblings Jack and Annie in the Magic Tree House series for more than 20 years. As with the first two books in the series – [...]
