Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol I loved this book! Anya falls down a well and doesn’t expect that she’ll actually meet a friend at the bottom of the well. Let alone a friend that’s a ghost who has been dead for over a hundred years. After Anya is rescued her ghost friend is with her [...]
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin, illustrated by James Dean What an absolutely fun book! I’d read it once before then I tried it out on a friend’s 3 1/2-year-old this weekend and he loved it! We sang Pete’s song and he was grooving to the beat. He loved telling [...]
Take Care, Good Knight by Shelley Moore Thomas, illustrated Paul Meisel The silliness of the little dragons in this book had me laughing out loud. When I read it aloud to a group of grade school kids, they were laughing out loud too. The three little dragons we’ve grown to love in the Good Knight [...]
Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion by Mo Willems The first time I read this book, I cried. I love the Knuffle Bunny books and was sad that the books were coming to an end. Trixie and her parents go on a trip to visit her grandparents in Holland. After they arrive in Holland, Trixie [...]
The Help by Kathryn Stockett This isn’t a review of the book itself, it’s a review of the audiobook. You can read tons of reviews of the book itself. This is the absolute best audiobook I’ve listened to. Rarely am I moved to tears by an audiobook. It’s no wonder that this won an AudioFile [...]
Owly Volume 1: The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer Owly Volume 2: Just A Little Blue Owly Volume 3: Flying Lessons Owly Volume 4: A Time to Be Brave by Andy Runton I love Owly. I’ve read the first four in the series. It had been sitting on our library shelves never getting checked [...]
I loved Anne of Green Gables! Anne doesn’t find herself getting into as much trouble in this book as she did in Anne of Green Gables, though she does manage to get herself into a few problems once in a while. Anne’s relationship with Marilla deepens as they take in two young children and Anne [...]
I loved the Anne of Green Gables miniseries and read parts of this book as a 6th and 7th grader but never read it all the way through. I decided this year I would read it. It was absolutely wonderful and such an endearing book. I think I appreciated it more as an adult than [...]
It’s been an amazing year to learn and find new books that I have loved. I’ve read and listened to a lot of books (120 to be exact) this year between school reading and reading for pleasure. It’s been a combination of picture books, middle grade books and teen books, which I’m drawn to most. [...]
I’d been hearing about this book all summer. It had been getting a lot of attention from fellow librarians and when a friend of mine gave it a great review on Goodreads, I figured I should just read it. It came in for me at the library and another book If I Stay distracted me [...]
