Just the Right Cake by Christina Tosi
Just the Right Cake by Christina Tosi starts off like any other cake book. It is raining so it is the perfect day to bake a cake. But if you ask Phil, he will tell you it would be a good day to bake a cake even if it was sunny. You see, Phil loves baking with his mom and dad. But today is different. It is just him and his mom. But even though the cake is made like they always did, something is […]
Lulu & Zoey: A Sister Story by Carrie Finison
I was not sure what to expect of Lulu & Zoey: A Sister Story. But it was not what occurred in this Carrie Finison picture book. We have an outside narrator telling us that sometimes sisters do “this” or “that” with examples given by sisters Lulu and Zoey. Sometimes Lulu wants to play, Zoey does not. Sometimes Zoey has a really cool pen and even though she will share, Lulu steals the rest of the art supplies. Sometimes Lulu decorates Zoey’s diary, and Zoey is […]
Fearless: A Graphic Novel by Kenny Porter
I like the illustrations of Fearless: A Graphic Novel by Kenny Porter. However, the story? Not so much. The fact best friends are growing apart is fine. I can get behind that. It is the theme of many going into middle school story. But it was what one of those best friends did afterwards that was unbelievable: On the first day of school, she runs away, tries to bike two towns over (where her friend moved to over the summer) to find her best friends’ […]
Hilo Volume Five: Then Everything Went Wrong by Judd Winick
Do You Remember the Summer Before? (Black Sand Beach, #2) by Richard Fairgray
Sequels are interesting. Sometimes they are better than the first book, and sometimes not even close. And when you get to book five in a series, sometimes you are more excited than you could imagine and other times you are thinking it is time to stop helping my uncle the logger keep his job and save a tree or two. Hilo Volume Five: Then Everything Went Wrong by Judd Winick is a mix of the above. This volume is a “middle of the story” story. […]
Kitty Sweet Tooth by Abby Denson
I will start my review with, this is not my image of the graphic novel Kitty Sweet Tooth (book one) by Abby Denson. All of mine had big ol’ light/flash spots on it. And very distracting. Besides, I liked the idea that some place out there someone has a Kitty Sweet Tooth doll. Granted, I do not want one, but I know that there will be several ages six to eight/nine who will after reading this book. Now I will add that there are several […]
Ho’onani: Hula Warrior by Heather Gale
Ho’onani: Hula Warrior is and is not hard to talk about. But after you say a young dancer finds her place in her society and the male hula troupe at school by being herself, you have said it all. I mean you can say how her family (but not her sister) supports her choice of being nāhū (not wahine (female) or kane or kāne (I have found both spellings) (male) but in between) and how that came about, but that takes away from the story […]
