Diary of a Bee by Stepanka Sekaninova
I did not know what to expect with Diary of a Bee by Stepanka Sekaninova and illustrated by Linh Dao when I saw the online reader copy (due mid April 2025). I figured it would be something like, “I wake up, brush my teeth, eat breakfast, go to (fill in space), lunch, dinner, snacks and go to bed.” You know, like a kid would do. But instead it is a fictionalized life of a bee. We start with “pre bee” and how they grow, hatch, […]
Nightsong by Sally Soweol Han
Nightsong by Sally Soweol Han is a story about a young boy who is tired of visiting the adults with his adult (assuming mother). But soon it is time to go home and the adult and child head for the bus, hop on and are leaving the city behind. Until the wheels on the bus don’t go round and round, and one needs to be fixed. A long day got longer, but our young boy decided to listen to the sounds around him and explore […]
Franklin's Trees by AJ Schenkman
In July 2024 Franklin’s Trees was published. I wasn’t able to read a (online) copy until early 2025. Now, it is not a book I went WOW over, or feel that it was worth waiting for, but it is a book that is a nice book when you find it. It never really wowed me, but AJ Schenkman’s book did interest me. I was not sure what to expect, but went about it with an open mind. We know some about Franklin D. Roosevelt, but […]
The Eidi Bag by Shazia Afzal
The Jellyfish Bus by Suhyeon Lee
What if Marty Doesn’t Like My Party? by Katie Arthur
Three books I enjoyed, but am not really able to give a full review to each individual are below. This is because if you try to write up a “full review” you just end up telling the story. And then, you, the reader of this review, will not want to read the actual books! (Each one was read via an online reader copy.) Starting with The Eidi Bag by Shazia Afzal and illustrated by Shiva Delsooz, we have a book (currently available) that dives into […]
Not a Monster by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
Not a Bean by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
Not a Dog by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
While doing some browsing of the 2025 online readers I have access to, I found a few “not a series-series.” One series was about having a crazy parent (a mermaid and unicorn) or an odd teacher (a T-Rex dinosaur) and then I found another not a series-series about science. The first series was fiction and I also wanted a non-fiction book, so I was lucky I found both. The second series was found when I looked at a cover that was an axolotl. Yes! I […]
The Paper Bridge by Joelle Veyrenc and Seng Soun Ratanavanh
One morning I opened my emails to find a Floris Books email saying I was a winner from the Grabbing a Galley from the Publishers Weekly campaign and there was an online link that was in the email. It hadn’t been that long since I had entered, but I had forgotten the titles I had hoped for. Therefore it was Christmas and I was opening the book present I always love getting. This one was the picture book, The Paper Bridge created by Joelle Veyrenc, […]
