Not Your Grandpa’s Dinosaurs
OnAs a culture, we are fascinated by dinosaurs and, as a result, books on the topic are anything but scarce. Even so, Dinosaurs (Random House, 432 pages) by Thomas R. Holtz Jr. fits in a niche not as well padded out as…
Category: children’s books
Review: Cold Skin by Steven Herrick
OnToday, in January Magazine’s children’s section, contributing editor Sue Bursztynski reviews Cold Skin by Steven Herrick. Says Bursztynski: Verse novels are good, at school level, for encouraging reluctant readers. Each “chapter” need only take a page or two and a lot of…
Review: Heart of Gold by Michael Pryor
OnToday, in January Magazine’s children’s book section, contributing editor Sue Bursztynski reviews Heart of Gold by Michael Pryor. Says Bursztynski: In the first novel in the Laws of Magic series, Blaze of Glory, we met Aubrey Fitzwilliam, son of an aristocratic family…
The Big Book of Pop Culture by Hal Niedzviecki
OnAnd while we’re on the topic of Hal Niedzviecki’s Big Book of Pop Culture (Were we? Kinda.) the book, which was published by Annick Press earlier this year, is amazing. In some ways, it’s quite beyond the scope of anything I’ve seen…
Review: Nim at Sea by Wendy Orr
OnToday, in January Magazine’s children’s book section, contributing editor Sue Bursztynski reviews Nim at Sea by Wendy Orr. Says Bursztynski: The only book by Wendy Orr I had read before was the rather grim Peeling The Onion, in which a teenager who…
Review: Earth: A Visitor’s Guide by Ian Harrison
OnToday, in January Magazine’s children’s book section, contributing editor Sue Bursztynski reviews Earth: A Visitor’s Guide by Ian Harrison. Says Bursztynski: Earth: A Visitor’s Guide is a book of fascinating facts and trivia for those readers who enjoy the Guinness Book of…
Review: Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful by Bridgid Lowry
OnToday, in January Magazine’s section featuring books for younger readers, contributing editor Sue Bursztynski reviews Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful by Bridgid Lowry. Says Bursztynski: The author is well-known for funny, sad, gentle novels for teenagers. She does them beautifully but, despite…
Review: Worse Than Boys by Catherine MacPhail
OnToday, in January Magazine’s children’s book section, contributing editor Sue Bursztynski reviews Worse Than Boys by Catherine MacPhail. Says Bursztynski: It has often been said that boys will bully each other physically, while girls will bully each other by exclusion and words….
Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
OnWith the end of the embargo on the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, January Magazine contributing editor Sue Bursztynski got right to work. As a children’s librarian and the author of several books for young readers, Bursztynski…
Review: I, Nigel Dorking by Mary-Anne Fahey
OnToday, in January Magazine’s children’s book section, contributing editor Sue Bursztynski looks at I, Nigel Dorking by Mary-Anne Fahey. Says Bursztynski: I am in two minds about this. There are so many novels, these days, seen from the viewpoint of a loser….