POPCORN, the perfect snack, but maybe TOO perfect if you pop TOO much! See what happens next in this fully illustrated popcorn adventure for children ages 3 – 8!
Month: February 2014
Book Spotlight: Pieces of MeThe Children’s Book Review
The 8 picture books listed here are not just Valentine’s Day Books, they are melt-you-heart-all-year-round stories to be savored and cherished.
Amongst the familiar articles to feature in TCBR’s top ten hot spots are some articles and booklists that truly match the seasonal events of February: winter books, Valentine’s Day books, the Newbery Medal winner, and some excellent civil-rights books perfect for Black History Month.
In the name of love (and Valentine’s Day), this list boasts 6 amazing teen romance books. From true love to lust to unbreakable hearts, we’ve got you covered with some of the latest contemporary novels; including David Levithan’s frank and beautiful Two boys Kissing.
Everyone’s taste is different, of course, but my favorite fairy tales are ones that are irreducibly strange. When I was drafting my new novel, The Glass Casket, I kept thinking back to the fairy tales that appealed to me as a child. They were often lesser-known Grimm tales, the ones that had not been sanitized—their strangeness muted by a series of cheerful bowdlerizations.
The Children’s Book Review | February 6, 2014
The Children’s Book Review | February 6, 2014
I honestly thought it’d take about a year to write a full-length novel, I’d sell it, have money in the bank, and be off and running. The truth was that it took seven and a half years to sell my first book—a YA novel, A BLUE SO DARK. I drafted THE JUNCTION OF SUNSHINE AND LUCKY in ’05, at the end of a make-or-break period.
Our list of best selling kids series books features titles that have been hand-selected from the nationwide best selling Children’s Series list, as noted by The New York Times, featuring dystopian thrillers from the likes of Veronica Roth and Suzanne Collins, the adventurous Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan, and the relatable Diary of a Wimpy Kid books by Jeff Kinney.