My Head Is Full of Books: TTT: Recently read Children's Books with my short reviews.

"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Monday, October 3, 2022

TTT: Recently read Children's Books with my short reviews.

Today's topic is related to favorite bookstores. I did a post on this very topic two years ago. Here is that post if you'd like to see what bookstores I'd like to visit. (TTT Bookstores.) If you want to read a book about bookstores worthy of driving out of the way, check out this one: Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores by Bob Eckstein.

Top Ten Tuesday: Recently read Children's books with my short reviews.

A Library by Nikki Giovanni

Poet Nikki Giovanni imagines going to all the places in her head that the books in a library once took her as a young girl. Libraries are magical places.

Published: 2022; read Sept. 27, 2022

Rating 5 stars

Imasaurus by Anne Ylvisaker

As it turns out children (and all humans) have lots of the same bones and body parts are T-Rex. This hilarious book, which is favorite of my five-year-old grandson, is tremendously fun to read aloud. "Iamasaurus. I am noodlevorous. One of the genus Ridiculorous. Mothers abhor us. Babies adore us. We romp and we stomp and we chomp on the floras."

Published: 2022; read Sept. 27, 2022.

Rating 4 stars

Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z by Irene Latham and Charles Waters

I love this "dictionary" full of words for a better world. Each word has a poem, a quote, and a personal anecdote related to it. I loved, loved, loved this book whose target audience is middle grade students.

Published in 2020; I read on Sept. 26, 2022.

Rating 5 stars.

Goodnight Racism by Ibram X. Kendi

We have to get this right. We have to stop being racists. A good place to start is with our young. Read this to the children in your life and start the process of becoming a better ancestor.

Published in 2022; Read on Sept 26, 2022.

Rating 5 stars.

CDC? by William Steig

A word game in a book. (CDC=See the Sea). I've had this book on my shelf for years because I used to think it was hilarious. I didn't laugh when I reread it this summer. Humor changes over time? Not sure.

Published in 1984; read on Sept. 13th.

Rating 3 stars.

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema

This classic children's book won the Caldecott Award for good reason. I read it with my grandson as part of the '100 Books You Should Hear Before Kindergarten' project with him. It is funny yet has a good morale of the story.

Published in 1975, read on Sept 8th.

Rating 5 stars.