A snowy day in front of a cozy fire provided perfect reading conditions for The Snowman Code, by Simon Stephenson (December 16, 2025, Simon...

  A vintage time travel book this week-- Fair Bay , by Eleanor Frances Lattimore (1958).  All her life Trudy's grandmother has told her ...

A Dreidel in Time , by Marcia Berneger, illustrated by Beatriz Castro (2019, Kar-Ben Publishing), is a short (88 pages) chapter book that ...

Grimwood, by Nadia Shireen (May 30, 2023 by Andrews McMeel Publishing) is great summer reading for kids who love funny illustrated books wh...

Unicorn Island: Beyond the Portal , by Donna Galanti, illustrated by Bethany Stancliffe (April 4, 2023 by Andrews McMeel Publishing), is the...

The Revenge of Zombert, by Kara LaReau (July 2022, Candlewick), is the third installment about a cat who escaped from torment in a lab and ...

The Button Box , by Bridget Hodder and Fawzia Gilani-Williams (April 2022, Kar-Ben Publishing), is a lovely time travel story for upper elem...

In my review of Unicorn Island: The Secret of Lost Luck , the first book in Donna Galanti's series for elementary school readers, I sa...

Parsifal Rides the Time Wave , by Nell Chenault (1962, Little Brown), is a rather charming time travel book for young readers, 6-9 ish. And...

Here's a fun graphic novel for younger kids (6-9 year olds ish) for this week's timeslip Tuesday- Super Potato's Mega Time-Trave...

Rise of ZomBert , by Kara LaReau, illustrated by Ryan Andrews (Candlewick, July 14 2020), is an excellent light horror story for 8-9 year-...

Equality Girls & the Purple Reflecto-Ray, by Aya de Leon (published by the author, May 2020) is a really fun chapter book full of ra...

Polly and Buster are the main characters in a series of early chapter books written and illustrated by Sally Rippen (Australia's high...

One of the joys of being a first round Cybils Awards panelist is getting to read charming books that weren't on your radar at all.  A...

Mr. Penguin and the Lost Treasure , by Alex T. Smith (Peachtree, April 2019), will delight young readers (1st-4th grades) who enjoy easy t...

Today I'm part of the blog tour for Dino Knights , by Jeff Norton , illustrated by George Ermos (elementary/younger middle grade, Aw...

Eleanor Roosevelt's In My Garage , by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Mark Fearing (Schwartz & Wade, September 2018) , is just t...

Here's  the start of a book series for kids 7-10 (ish) about a stage magician (with some real magic as well as some great illusions!) co...

Stuck in the Stone Age , by Geoff Rodkey (Rodale Kids March 2018), is the sort of romp of a book, generously fonted, with lots of humor (s...

Dragons in a Bag , by Zetta Elliott (Random House, October 2018), is an urban fantasy for older elementary aged kids (8-10 ish years old, ...