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Best Illlustrated Children’s Books of 2014
The NY Times Book Review for today has a listing of the best illustrated children’s books along with a bit…
“Nest” by Esther Ehrlich
This is a middle-grade fiction novel that takes place on Cape Cod in the 1970’s. “Chirp” is the 11 year-old…
US
This “us” is an English family of three – Douglas, scientist, Connie, artist, and Albie, son (nicknamed Egg). A family…
Shakespeare Saved my Life by Laura Bates
This title is a memoir by Laura Bates, the subtitle being “Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard.” Bates is…
Choose your own autobiography
Neil Patrick Harris writes a book about his career that covers his life but lets you skip forward or backward,…
“Relish: My Life in the Kitchen”
by Lucy Knisley is a YA graphic novel/memoir. Knisley grew up the only daughter of 2 “foodie” parents. Her…
The Language of Houses
I’ve read Alison Lurie’s fiction with pleasure so thought I would try a nonfiction. This is an in depth book…
“Rhyme Schemer”
by K.A. Holt is middle-grade fiction. This novel in verse stars Kevin, a bully, who terrorizes his classmates physically and…
Can’t we talk about something more pleasant?
I was so pleased Roz Chast is a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Her book says what…
Gutenberg’s Apprentice by Alix Christi
The is a fictionalized version of how the printing press came to be. It follows the life of a scribe,…
New biography of Katherine Paterson
According to a favorable review in the November BookPage, Katherine Paterson has penned a memoir appropriately titled, “Stories of My…
An Interview with Oliver Jeffers
In the October 15 issue of Kirkus, Gordon West, a writer/illustrator from Brooklyn interviews a fellow writer/ illustrator: Oliver Jeffers….