My Heart Fills With Happiness to be Given to Over Half a Million Kids
Over half a million children will soon receive a copy of Monique Gray Smith’s bestselling 2016 book My Heart Fills With Happiness (Orca Books). The […]
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Children’s Books: Noah’s New Puppy by Richard Rice
Noah’s New Puppy (Msi Press) by Richard Rice combines the issues of post battle PTSD with the healing power of service dogs in a way […]
Gross Humor Book Teaches Prepositions in Spanish and English
Karl Beckstrand’s 22nd book, It Came from under the High Chair: A Mystery, almost never got published. “I thought the concept of a monster made […]
Helping Kids Read and Feel Loved: Texas Principal Using Technology to Reach Kids at Home
When Dr. Belinda George, principal of Homer Drive Elementary in Beaumont, Texas, discovered that a lot of the kids under her care didn’t have anyone […]
Children’s Books: Christmas: from Solstice to Santa by Nikki Tate and Dani Tate-Stratton
Like everything, it seems, Christmas has gotten to be somewhat controversial. And then there always appear to be people around telling us we’re doing it […]
Grief Becomes Us
Two new titles out from Orca Books are aimed at helping kids deal with grief and death, albeit in very different ways. In After Life: […]
Children’s Book Sparks Racial Controversy
When books are banned or protested, it gives us an opportunity to look more closely at the book being called out and, in certain cases, […]
All-Star Cast Will Elevate Dolittle Film
Hugh Lofting’s The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle came out in 1922. As Wikipedia notes, “It is nearly five times as long as its predecessor and […]
Film Version of L’Engle’s Classic Book Disappoints
Reviews are coming in for the Ava DuVernay directed adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle’s Newberry Award-winning novel of the same name. […]
Best Books of 2017
At best, writing about books is subjective. My favorite book of the year could very well be the one you liked least. And, certainly, […]
