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Tumble and Blue: On Friendship and Fate

by Carolyn | Oct 17, 2017 | Adventure, Fantasy, Imagination, Juvenile Fiction, Magical Realism, Middle School, Middle-grade, Scary Stories | 0 Comments

Do you get super excited when one of your favorite authors comes out with a new book? Me too! (I'm assuming you said yes, right?) I loved Cassie Beasly's debut middle-grade novel, Circus Mirandus, so when her new novel, Tumble & Blue, arrived in the mail, I...

Beautiful: The Book Every Little Girl Needs to Hear

by Carolyn | Oct 3, 2017 | Character Training, Cultural Diversity, Girls, Giveaway, Parenting, Picture Books | 10 Comments

This past Christmas, I found a picture book I just couldn't pass up for my daughters or my nieces. Every little girl longs to know they are beautiful, but what exactly does that mean? Beautiful by Stacy McAnulty provides a great answer to that question. (And for a...

Fall Kids Audiobook Deals with Audible

by Carolyn | Sep 29, 2017 | Audiobooks, Book Deals, Chapter Books, Early Readers, Juvenile Fiction, Middle-grade, Picture Books | 2 Comments

Audible has done it again! They have another amazingly huge sale on some great children's books! I've hand-picked over 50 of the best books from this massive sale from picture books to middle-grade novels to recommend to you. Enjoy! These books are all between $1.95...

Cilla Lee-Jenkins Future Author Extraordinaire

by Carolyn | Sep 19, 2017 | Autobiography, Chapter Books, Cultural Diversity, Girls, Imagination, Juvenile Fiction, Older Elementary, Read Alouds | 0 Comments

Let me introduce you to a modern-day Ramona. I have totally fallen for the quirky, honest, ambitious Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire by Susan Tan. The Story Cilla Lee-Jenkins is certain that she is destined for literary greatness. What she's not so...

A Must-Have Picture Book about Homeschooling

by Carolyn | Sep 5, 2017 | Education, Older Elementary, Picture Books, Preschool, Read Alouds | 2 Comments

I remember the day my daughter realized homeschooling meant she would never ride the big yellow bus. It wasn't that she saw other kids on our street joyfully piling in. Most of our neighbors were in their eighties. We had the only school-aged kids on the block. But...

Orphan Island: Journey from Childhood to Adolescence

by Carolyn | Aug 15, 2017 | Adventure, Fantasy, Girls, Imagination, Juvenile Fiction, Magical Realism, Middle School, Middle-grade, Parenting | 0 Comments

Orphan Island is a beautiful, poignant story for kids on the verge of leaving childhood. My older two kids are about the same age my brother and I were when we started sharing book recommendations back and forth (which we still do to this day). So it's no surprise...

Hilarious Picture Books with Dragons

by Carolyn | Aug 1, 2017 | Animal books, Book Lists, Fantasy, For fun, Imagination, Picture Books, Poetry, Read Alouds, Recommendations | 6 Comments

I don't know how it started, but there has been a surplus of funny picture books with dragons published in the last few years. And when I say funny, I mean hilarious. I literally can't read some of these without laughing out loud. If you have a child who likes dragons...

The Door Before–N.D. Wilson’s New Prequel

by Carolyn | Jul 18, 2017 | Adventure, Boys, Character Training, Fantasy, Girls, Imagination, Juvenile Fiction, Magical Realism, Middle School, Middle-grade, Scary Stories | 0 Comments

Sometimes, when you have been anticipating a new book in a series, it won't measure up. Well, I'm happy to say that's not the case with The Door Before. It was stunning. The Door Before surprised me in multiple ways. First of all, it's not just the prequel to Wilson's...