Five Family Favorites With Kelly DiPucchio, Author Of Everyone Loves Cupcakes
Kelly DiPucchio, author of Everyone Loves Cupcakes, selected these five family favorites that are meaningful to her family.
In the Spotlight
Best New Picture Books | September 2016
32 New Release Picture Books From debut picture books to familiar characters starring in new stories, you'll be delighted, charmed, entertained, and humored.
Best New Kids Books | August 2016
Hot New Releases & Popular Kids Stories Oh, my! We have a truck load of amazing books to share with you during August.
Everyone Loves Bacon, by Kelly DiPucchio | Book Review
This charming story centers on a strip of narcissistic Bacon. As the “toast of the town,” Bacon is loved by everyone, causing him to forget about his true friends.
Best Selling Picture Books | July 2015
This month, our best selling picture book from our affiliate store is the gorgeously illustrated Gaston, written by Kelly DiPucchio and pictures by Christian Robinson.
Best New Kids Stories | July 2014
We have quite the variety of books to share with readers this month. We're featuring picture books all the way to popular teen books. Jeffrey Brown returns with the highly anticipated sequel to the NY Times Bestseller Star Wars: Jedi Academy! There is fun stuff
Bookarazzi: More Celebrity Children’s Books!
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: May 11, 2010
boo·ka·raz·zi: A freelance blogger who pursues celebrities who read books, to create posts that promote children’s literature.
Children’s books written by celebrities are growing in abundance. The latest books to join this category are The Sandwich Swap
So … how do you know whether the next celebrity written children’s book that you find in your hands is going to be quality? For starters, take a look at the suggestions offered in the comments field on these two fab blogs:
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Halloween Picture Book List/Picks
If you’re scouting for a nice Halloween treat for your little witch, ladybug, ghost, or cowboy, I found all of the following new picture books to be very impressive:
Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody
by Michael Rex
Reading level: Ages 3-6
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile (August 14, 2008)
Synopsis: Goodnight monsters everywhere, in this parody romp with its own special twist!
“Goodnight tomb. Goodnight goon. Goodnight Martians taking over the moon.”
It’s bedtime in the cold gray tomb with a black lagoon, and two slimy claws, and a couple of jaws, and a skull and a shoe and a pot full of goo. But as a little werewolf settles down, in comes the Goon determined at all costs to run amok and not let any monster have his rest.
A beloved classic gets a kind-hearted send up in this utterly monsterized parody; energetic art and a hilarious text will have kids begging to read this again and again.