Xander's Panda Party by Linda Sue Park
To try and expand my reading and to have some sort of order to it I started a reading challenge of a book per letter of the alphabet. It hit a few bumps (it is not as easy as you might think) but really hit hard with the letters Q and X. I did a little research and came up with Xander’s Panda Party for X (Q will be Queer Ducks by Eliot Schrefer. Hopefully). I thought, “Pandas?” That’s good. A party? Okay, that could […]
The First Girl on Stage: Tunga Dances the Yakshagana by Shruthi Rao
Are you looking for a good story about breaking the gender barrier with a subject not many might know about. The First Girl on Stage: Tunga Dances the Yakshagana by Shruthi Rao and illustrator Devika Joglekar might be what you are looking for. The girl of the story becomes obsessed with the dances she sees on stage. The swirling, the costumes, the colors, the excitement she copies all the time. At first, her family finds it amusing, then not so much, as she continues to […]
Snow Kid by Jessie Sima
Snow Kid by Jessie Sima was another one of those books I almost didn’t read. And then when I finally did read it, I almost didn’t review. You see, I am not the audience for it. Not really. Sure I can recommend it to the parents and grandparents who buy books for children, but it is for them, not the single woman who just adopts all the children as her nieces and nephews. You see, Snow Kid is a book that is simple text and […]
Little Bee V01 The Buzz About the Party by Danny Neville and Colleen McKeown
One day I have an email in my inbox that says I have been given access to an online reader of Little Bee V01 The Buzz About the Party by Danny Neville and illustrator Colleen McKeown. It is due early March 2026 and the image of the cover was there as well. There was a lot of technical stuff (you know words) about how great it was and other information about it, but I try not to read too much about things so I am […]
Knight Owl's Little Christmas by Christopher Denise
Sometimes sequels and companion books do not always hit as well as the first book of a series or collection by an author for me. The Knight Owl books are good and I like them, but the second book was not as good as the first. I am not jumping up and down and saying they are my favorite books, but I like recommending them and on occasion reading them again. Therefore, these are exceptions to that comment. And one day, while browsing potential online […]
Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love!, Volume 1 by Mamakari
Title: Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love!, Volume 1 Author: Mamakari Illustrator: Mamakari Annotation from Publisher: “All Yumeko ever saw were her flaws. Her unhappy outlook infected not just her, but everyone around her, too. It’s only after a car accident that leaves Yumeko with amnesia that she wakes up with a brand-new lease on life, one that attracts all kinds of adventures and maybe even love.”– My Comments: So, at first I really did not like this book. There were a lot of bumps in […]
