Lightyear by Natasha Yim
In other news, I have no self control. I said I would likely hold off on this one for a little while, yet here we are. It’s part me coming around to the art style in this one and part me just wanting to satisfy my overwhelming need to collect them all. Mostly the latter. But, reading the book, I was won over more by the art style than I expected to be. It isn’t as charming as that of the other Toy Story Little Golden […]
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
After finding Shout, her memoir follow-up to Speak, at a local thrift shop, it felt only fitting that I found Speak at one too. A quality copy, too, unlike the copy of Shout, which had been missing its dust jacket. I had thought back when I read Shout that I needed to see what had caused such a stir, inspiring book bans and making uptight folks lose their cool, and now that I’ve read it… this is quite tame, honestly. Like almost always, the book bans feel like a gross […]
Zap! Clap! Boom! The Story of a Thunderstorm by Laura Purdie Salas
Queen Elizabeth: Volume 87 (Little People, Big Dreams) by Sanchez Vegara
It is time for picture a book round up. Below are two radically different, but equally good titles. Zap! Clap! Boom! The Story of a Thunderstorm is a poetic look at the excitement, softness, loudness, strength of a Thunderstorm. The start, middle, and ending of a storm are given by simple text of Laura Purdie Salas. Their work is complimented by Elly MacKay and their equally complicated, but familiar and comfortable, illustrations. The poetry of a storm comes to life in a way you might […]
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Oh no. Oh nooo. It’s a series. Those were my exact words upon doing a cursory Google search prior to starting this review. In prepping to tear into The Rosie Project, I learned that there are two follow-ups that I don’t think my morbid curiosity will let me not read. To answer my previous question of if I’m a masochist: yes. Why else would I suffer through multiple seasons of dreadful Dexter and Archer simply because I’d already devoted so many years of my time to the shows? Why […]
Lunch From Home by Joshua David Stein
Lunch From Home is based on the various authors experiences growing up. Ray (Garcia), Preeti (Mistry), Mina (Park) and Niki (Russ Federman) bring their favorite lunches to school, and since they are not the “usual sandwich” the other kids have, they are teased for their choices. Choices that truly represent them and their cultures. Of course, they go through the “I just want a sandwich for lunch” until they decide that they will not be ashamed and celebrate what makes them unique. These four children […]
The October Country by Ray Bradbury
This was a Did Not Finish, on account of I hated it. Hokay, so, The October Country. This is a collection of Bradbury short stories, and the first one is about a dwarf (it’s called, inventively, “The Dwarf”) who is a regular at a carnival with a house of mirrors where there’s a room where he can see himself as tall, and of course that’s all he wants to do and isn’t it so self-evident that it’s grotesque and he’s grotesque and he couldn’t possibly […]
