“Lizzy the Lucky Lab” is a fun, frolicking tale of a dog, her family and friends and the health club that binds them all together.
Year: 2012
It’s no secret to us that giving books is one of the greatest gifts you can give; but do you want to know what’s even better than giving a book that has been carefully selected for you? Being on the receiving end!
Lisa Taylor is a “shelf-employed” children’s librarian whom you can find amidst the shelves of a public library. This fabulous blogging librarian is well and truly tapped into the wonderful world of children’s literature. Nothing makes her happier than placing the right book in the right hands at the right time.
The five sassy ladies at Girls in the Stacks kindly agreed to share their YA reading picks for the new year with TCBR. Here are their top YA selections for January-February 2013. Happy reading and Happy New Year!!
We’ve loved watching the journey of San Francisco bay area writer Rachel Sarah as she found love and had her second daughter. She is the author of Single Mom Seeking: Play Dates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World (Seal Press, 2007) optioned by 20th Century Fox. We’re overjoyed to get some reading tips from this super cool mama.
Linda Jones is a mom, wife, poetry enthusiast, and has sold several titles commercially in the scrapbooking market. Alphabet Anatomy is her first series of children’s books and Jones dishes on the inspiration for her series and the collaboration with her illustrator son.
In her debut book, “Meet the Capital Letters,” new author Linda Jones has ingeniously created an innovative personality and activities for each letter by examining the letter’s shape and sound.
In this exciting new chapter book, Leah’s Lions by author John Richard Dony (Emily and the Spider, 2012), nine-year-old Leah prepares to save her lion cub friends from a menacing grounds keeper, Mr. Hemmings, and his terrible shotgun. Leah’s proud gang of animal friends help her to navigate the way to a safe haven through the beautiful but treacherous landscape of Africa.
Dennis Shoe is a happy-go-lucky young boy with a great smile and a winning manner. He is enthusiastic so sometimes he speaks fast and when he says his name, it comes out sounding like Tennyshoe. He’s an instantly likeable character and most readers will either identify with him or want to be like him.
Ferdinand Fox’s Big Sleep is Karen Inglis’s third published book and it is the first rhyming picture book in her series of six adventures about a boy and a fox. In this interview she happily shares insight about the characters and the creative process behind the tale.