You Are 25% Banana by Susie Brooks
You Are 25% Banana by Susie Brooks and illustrated by Josy Bloggs was not just a fun book to read, and one that is a must have for the classroom and your inquisitive child (and as an adult I learned a few things too), but it also inspired a very wackado (and not really completed) poem by yours truly. This picture book is a great way to introduce astonishing facts that show how we’re all related to every living thing on the planet and what […]
Pearls in the Sand : Protecting Sea Turtles in Oaxaca by Beatriz Gutiérrez Hernández
Midnight Motorbike by Maureen Shay Tajsar
Pearls in the Sand : Protecting Sea Turtles in Oaxaca is one of those picture books that I am not really sure I loved. I know I really enjoyed it, but not sure if I loved it. And I realized this is because I need to read it again. I honestly do not feel you can get the whole picture with one reading. Sure, Beatriz Gutiérrez Hernández has a story about how a group of people help save the turtle population of their area, but […]
Island Storm by Brian Floca
Island Storm by Brian Floca and Sydney Smith is an interesting picture book. I read via an online reader copy and it is due later in July 2025. While the story itself was not my favorite, I really enjoyed the illustrations. They set the tone well, making action out of a piece of paper (or screen). I was not sure how to say it, therefore I took the publisher’s description and had (I believe an AI program) come up with something. And that something is: […]
Mary Had a Little Jam by Tammi Sauer and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Pencil by Hye-Eun Kim
My recent picture book reading day included a lot of books. So many in fact that I had to break them into two different reviews. Also read and now included in this review were Mary Had a Little Jam by Tammi Sauer and Vanessa Brantley-Newton and Pencil by Hye-Eun Kim. Well, Hye-Eun Kim’s book was more looked at than read as it is a wordless picture book. And still Pencil is something that I can write several words about. The fun part of this book […]
What About an Elephant?: A Fact-Filled Savanna Adventure by Deborah Kerbel
What About an Octopus?: A Fact-Filled Underwater Adventure by Deborah Kerbel
I was looking through a recent email sent to me via a publisher. They were promoting a few new books and What About an Elephant?: A Fact-Filled Savanna Adventure by Deborah Kerbel and illustrated by Dawn Lo was one of them (it is due in mid-August 2025). There was a companion title, What About an Octopus?: A Fact-Filled Underwater Adventure also by Kerbel and Lo (but is currently available) advertised as well. I looked around and found online reader copies for both. While I was […]
Chomp-O-Rama: The Strange Ways That Animals Eat by Maria Birmingham
Chomp-O-Rama: The Strange Ways That Animals Eat Written by Maria Birmingham Illustrated by: Kyle Reed Due mid April 2025 Read as an online reader copy Review done by Me This book was exactly what I thought it would be and a little different. The little differences were it was a lot younger looking than I thought it would be and the illustrations were a bit less filled out than I personally would have liked. Exactly what I thought it was was the part about how […]
