Congratulations to dollsstory for winning The Smiley Book of Colors in last week’s giveaway. I am excited to host another author and book giveaway today–it’s a “basketball” book in honor of March Madness (Anyone still have a good bracket?). The book is called Transcendental Basketball Blues, the author is Mike Pemberton, and it is YA/crossover [...]

Bugs Galore! is a cute picture book with rhyming verses about bugs–such as, “Freaky, sneaky/shiny flat bug./ Hairy, scary–what was that bug? The verses are catchy and easy to read, and there’s some general verses for all bugs. And then some specific for just a bug or two. So, what do I do with this [...]

There’s a lot going on this fine spring Thursday with my guest blogger and WOW! blog tour author, Ruth Kaiser, and her super, super, SUPER cute picture book, The Smiley Book of Colors. (Publisher: Random House/Golden Books) I absolutely love this book and can’t wait to share it with you. Ruth has seen Smiley Faces [...]

*Picture book for preschooler through second graders (fantasy–talking animals *Young jellyfish as main character *Rating: Super cute illustrations make this sweet picture book appeal to kids. Even better, if your children/students love this book or sea creatures, Kristen and Kevin Collier have a website where you can meet each character closer and download FREE activity [...]

*Picture book, contemporary, preschool through second graders *Young girl as main character *Rating: This is a cute book for young children. It can help them learn about different veggies and about making friends. The illustrations are FANTASTIC! Short, short summary: Adelita is starting school and wants to make friends, but she’s worried and nervous as [...]

I have several things to discuss today, so this post is going to be a little different than the usual. First, I was lucky enough to get my free 48-hour copy of Wisdom, The Midway Albatross on Friday for the anniversary of the Japanese tsunami. Darcy’s book, with illustrations by Kitty Harvill, is beautiful. It’s [...]

I am excited to be giving away Stranger Moon and doing it with Rafflecopter for the first time! I would love it if you tried out Rafflecopter with me by doing as many of the tasks as you can below and then getting all the possible points to win this AWESOME book. The contest goes [...]

I am happy to announce that Krysten H. won the copy of Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disasters by Meredith Zeitlin. Thank you to everyone who left a comment and got excited about this new YA book and debut author as well as her informative post! If you didn’t win, consider purchasing the book for [...]

Today we are talking about the new, pretty-much WORDLESS, book from Mercer Mayer. But don’t forget to enter the giveaway for Meredith Zeitlin’s YA book Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disasters and check out her book trailer here. Now. . .Octopus Soup *Picture book for preschoolers through third graders (really any level if you see [...]