Review: New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meyer and Eric Velasquez
Ella Mae’s shoes are always hand-me-downs from her cousin Charlotte. When the new-used pair from Charlotte don’t fit, Ella Mae and her mother go to Johnson’s for Ella Mae’s first […]
Ella Mae’s shoes are always hand-me-downs from her cousin Charlotte. When the new-used pair from Charlotte don’t fit, Ella Mae and her mother go to Johnson’s for Ella Mae’s first […]
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music Sometimes just living your true self can be the most remarkable act of rebellion, and this simple act can change the […]
Summer is here (though you wouldn’t know it from the Junuary days we’ve been having recently) and for many librarians that means only one thing – Summer Reading Club! My […]
Hardcover, 34 pages Published April 21st 2014 by Rupi Rajwan Source: Library Beautiful is inside you; beautiful is you, everyday. I believe we need to show the meaning of ‘beautiful’ […]
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 […]
When I was casting my eyes about this past summer, wondering what might be the final book of wonder in my posts during December, lo and behold in my mum’s […]
I’ll confess: the other two picturebooks of wonder that I wrote about earlier this month came my way via someone else’s recommendation. (Brain Pickings, thank you!) But this book, Winter is Coming […]
Last week’s book of wonder was a picturebook about the poet Pablo Neruda. This week’s book of wonder is a picturebook biography of another real person: this time, scientist and […]
Way back in the early summer, I found I had a number of picturebooks so extraordinary that I had to sing their praises. To my delight, these books all had […]
The following discussion is less of a review and more of a rumination in this book. To discuss the book, I’ll have to talk about it in its entirety. I […]