For this week's Timeslip Tuesday, one for younger readers-- Pigsticks and Harold Lost in Time! by Alex Milway (Candlewick, 2017).  This...

Alesha Dixon, a celebrity in the UK, has brought a new middle grade superhero to town-- Lightning Girl !  (whose adventures continue i...

I don't tend to seek out books for early elementary grade kids, but I'm by no means averse to reading them when they come my way (no...

Time Jumpers: Stealing the Sword , by Wendy Mass (August 2018), is the start of a new series in the Scholastic Branches line, aimed at kid...

I utterly adored Binky the Space Cat , the first book of Ashley Spires PURST ( Pets of the Universe Ready for Space Travel) graphic novels...

Crafty Cat and the Crafty Camp Crisis , by Charise Mericle Harper (First Second, August 2017) was the first Crafty Cat book I've read ...

Believe it or not--Ripley's has branched out into boardbooks with Wacky 123 and Oddphabet !   And the books are as odd and quirky as ...

The Infamous Ratsos , by Kara LaReaua (Candlewick August 2016) is a lovely early reader/first chapter book that is both funny in its words...

Little Robot , by Ben Hatke (First Second, Sept. 2015), is a lovely graphic novel for the young (1st or 2nd grade) reader, that can, like ...

I bumped Eva Sees a Ghost , by Rebecca Elliott (Scholastic, May 26, 2015), to the top of my reading and review pile when it came in, not j...

The Shark King , a Toon Book by R. Kikuo Johnson (April, 2012, 40 pages), is an easy reader graphic novel that's multicultural, intellec...

Looking for a great book to use to help your young child understand the driving force behind evolution? Try Charlie and Kiwi: an Evolution...

Due to the exigencies* of life, I do not have my beautifully insightful, articulate etc review extolling the virtues (and they are many) of ...

Meet Monster: Six Stories About the World's Friendliest Monster , by Ellen Blance and Ann Cook, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Back in 1...

Adventures in Cartooning Activity Book , by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost (First Second, 2010). Adventures in Carto...

Toon Books are among the loveliest early readers I know off. These graphic novels for the very young reader are, in general, smart, funny,...

The Adventures of Benny , by Steve Shreve (Marshall Cavendish, 2009, 159 pages, ages 7-10) First, the description. In the five stories that...

Agnes and the Giant , by Anne Adeney, illustrated Daniel Postgate (Franklin Watts, 2009, 31pp). Here's a great learning-to-read advent...

I vividly remember my first Choose Your Own Adventure Book ( The Forbidden Castle , published way back in 1982), mainly because I chose corr...

We were very happy that Stinky , a Toon Book, was named a Geisel Award Honor Book a few weeks ago. We are very fond of it in our house (it...