Mini Review: I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter by David Chariandy
I understand the need for comparitive titles, so I will bring up Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates now, only to say yes, this is a similar format […]
Category Archives: Nonfiction
Bright Sky, Starry City
Phoebe helps her dad set up telescopes on the sidewalk outside his store. It’s a special night — Saturn and Mars are going to appear together in the sky. But […]
You Should Meet Mae Jemison
Blast off into space and get to know Mae Jemison—the first African-American woman to ever go to space—with this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read early reader, part of a new […]
Women In Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures
Being a life-long science fiction nut and borderline Trekkie, I’ve decided to embrace this month’s space theme in all its nerdy, nerdy glory and share some of my favourite space-themed […]
Five Finds – The Music Within
And we’re back with another collection of themed picture books! Continuing with this month’s performing arts theme, today we’re looking at picture books that celebrate musical expression. I am passionate […]
Notes from the Wild: Vol. 5
We’re truly living in a golden age of children’s literature. Not only is there is an incredible amount of fantastic material available, we’re finally starting to see a real rise […]
Notes from the Wild: Vol. 3
When it comes to reading, I am decidedly omnivorous. I’ll happily devour a little historical fiction here, a bit of fantasy there, maybe some mystery sprinkled about, with a taste […]
Snapshots: Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales, Tim O’Meara (Photographs)
Hardcover, 40 pages Published September 2nd 2014 by Roaring Brook Press Source: Library Frida Kahlo, one of the world’s most famous and unusual artists is revered around the world. Her […]
Snapshot: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound work that […]
Review: The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle
Hardcover, 182 pages Published March 19th 2013 by HMH Books for Young Readers Source: Publisher “I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which […]
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