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Georgie 15 Oct 2010 | 03:40 am
By Robert Bright, 1944 Guest Reviewer: LISA BROWN For Halloween, another one of my earliest favorites. “Up in the attic of this little house there lived a little ghost. His name was Georgie.” I be...
Dillweed's Revenge 7 Oct 2010 | 02:17 am
By Florence Parry Heide and Carson Ellis, 2010 Here is Dillweed with his friend Skorped. Dillweed never went anywhere. He never had adventures. He never had a good time. WHY WE RECOMMEND THIS BOO...
LANE SMITH on It's a Book 15 Jul 2010 | 07:06 am
Time for another installment of WHAT IN THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING? Is it shameless to write about my own book? Yes. Lane, a book about a book, a pirate-loving monkey, a jackass of a jackass. . .....
Big Rabbit's Bad Mood 11 May 2010 | 03:22 am
by Ramona Badescu and Delphine Durand, 2007 This is a very big rabbit with a very bad mood. There it is on the sofa. The jerk. The rabbit tries to get rid of the bad mood, but nothing works. The ba...
Making Picture Books is Fun 5 May 2010 | 04:32 am
By H.A. Rey, Young Wings (Junior Literary Guild), 1947 Making picture books is fun. Try it some day.
Elizabite 26 Apr 2010 | 08:12 am
By H.A. Rey. 1942 Written by H.A. Rey of Curious George fame, Elizabite tells the tale of a very hungry Venus Flytrap years before Little Shop of Horrors. This book features lots of biting. The mem...
Let's Take a Walk 24 Apr 2010 | 03:19 am
By Aaron Heller and Robert Deschamps, 1963 The subtitle of this book is A Story Told in Pictures but for the life of us we can't figure out what that story is. We sure do like Mr. Deschamps' pictures...
Kashtanka 19 Apr 2010 | 05:00 am
By Anton Chekhov and Gennady Spirin, 1994 Guest Reviewer: GEORGE SAUNDERS The story is simple: a dog gets lost, adjusts to her new home, is found by her old owners, goes happily back home. Like so ...
Let's Tell a Fairy Tale 18 Apr 2010 | 02:33 am
By Frantisek Hrubin and Jiri Trnka, 1954 Genius animator Jiri Trnka was also an illustrator of children's books. Let's tell a fairy tale of naughty kids . . . and gluttons with blood on their cheek...
More and More Ant and Bee 11 Apr 2010 | 08:20 am
By Angela Banner and Bryan Ward, 1961 There are MANY Ant and Bee books. Our FAVORITE is . . . More and More Ant and Bee. It is our favorite because our copy was so OLD that the pages fell OUT. W.....
