Recent Posts Tagged With 'picture books'

• The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin and Rosana Faria

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 10:24 in book reviews, book club, nonfiction, picture books, published 2008, children's literature book club selection, a-d title, e-h author, a-d author

  What is it like to experience colors if you are blind?  This is the question that The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin and Rosana Faria asks and attempts to answer.  This book of colors is lacking in the color department and that’s a goo...

• Let’s Talk Elephants Today! Travels with Tarra and Just for Elephants by Carol Buckley

  Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 09:25 in videos, book reviews, nonfiction, picture books, book trailers, blog tour, review copy

  Can anybody tell me the gestation period of an elephant?  No?  Let me share.  An elephant is pregnant for about 22 months!  That’s almost two years people!  Can you imagine being pregnant for two years?!   Thanks, but no thanks. My boys ...

• Zlata’s Diary, A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic

  Posted on Friday August 21st, 2009 at 18:19 in war, book reviews, nonfiction, picture books, bosnia, sarajevo, history world events, e-h author, u-z title

  Zlata’s Diary, A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic has often been compared to the Diary of Anne Frank and it’s a comparison that’s not lost on Zlata herself as she often noted in her diary that she hoped that her end...

• Giveaway – 14 Cows For America and Thomas Gonzalez Shares the Illustration Process for this Beautiful Picture Book

  Posted on Wednesday August 5th, 2009 at 09:30 in africa, contests, book reviews, nonfiction, kenya, picture books

  Yesterday I gushed about 14 Cows for America done by Thomas Gonzalez by Carmen Agra Deedy in collaboration with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah and illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez.  If you missed my gushing, go back and read my book review because I can hones...

• 14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy in Collaboration with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah, Illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez

  Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 09:22 in africa, videos, book reviews, nonfiction, kenya, picture books, book trailers, blog tour, review copy

  Wow. Do not let this unassuming cover fool you.  14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy in collaboration with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah and illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez is a purely stunning picture book that when I finished reading the author’...

• Unite or Die, How Thirteen States Became a Nation by Jacqueline Jules, Illustrated by Jef Czekaj

  Posted on Saturday July 4th, 2009 at 10:57 in book reviews, nonfiction, picture books, review copy, published 2009, i-l author, u-z title

  Unite or Die, How Thirteen States Became a Nation by Jacqueline Jules and illustrated by Jef Czekaj is a perfect book to sit down with this holiday weekend with your kids and learn exactly how the constitution was created.  And trust me, perhaps my ...

• The Christmas Crocodile by Bonny Becker, Illustrated by David Small

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 01:15 in fiction, book reviews, christmas, picture books, book lists, b author, c title

  Wait!  It’s not Christmas!  What am I doing reviewing a Christmas book in February?!  Well, today is Bonny Becker day! Well, I made that up.  But today, on my blog, it’s Bonny Becker day!  If you are familiar with children’s au...

• Passage to Freedom, The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki, Illustrated by Dom Lee

  Posted on Thursday February 26th, 2009 at 01:21 in World War II, war, book reviews, nonfiction, biography, Holocaust, picture books, blog tour, m author, p title

  Passage to Freedom, The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee is not only a wonderful book but it’s based on a wonderful true story that I’m going to say is safe to believe that many people don’t know.  As we l...