Happy National Poultry Day!

Today is National Poultry Day! In celebration of such a special day I have gathered a flock of stories about our fine-feathered fowl friends, the chickens. Some are new titles and some are classics, but all are entertaining. Have you ever met a six-foot tall and 266 pound chicken before? In D.Manus Pinkwater’s classic, The [...]

The Death of Yorik Mortwell.

Yorik is a poor orphan servant at Ravenby Manor until he dies. In Stephen Messer’s The Death of Yorik Mortwell, Yorik is surprised to realize that he has become a ghost. Even as a ghost, he is still a servant of the Princess of the Aviary Glade. He is commanded to haunt the manor and its dwellers. It is there he is introduced [...]

What You Wish For

If you could make a wish, what would it be? What do R.L. Stine, Jane Yolen, Nikki Giovanni and over a dozen more amazing authors have in common? They have all written incredible poems and stories for the collection, What You Wish For: Stories and Poems for Darfur. From a girl wanting her own space [...]

How Tía Lola Saved Summer

Tía Lola is back! In the latest by Julia Alvarez, How Tía Lola Saved Summer, Miguel Guzman’s summer is not going well. He’s injured his ankle and his mother has invited the Sword family to stay with them. That’s a family with a father, THREE GIRLS and a dog… but at least the dog is [...]

What It’s Like to Climb Mount Everest…

Can you imagine what it would be like to be bitten by a shark? Or sail through a hurricane?  In Jeff Belanger’s What It’s Like to Climb Mount Everest, Blast Off Into Space, Survive a Tornado, and Other Extraordinary Stories, you’ll read amazing true stories of ordinary people who have  lived incredible adventures giving you a [...]

Remembering Green

In Lesley Beake’s Remembering Green, it’s 2200 global warming has caused water to cover most of the earth. One night Rain is kidnapped along with her lion, Saa, from her family, her village and everything she has ever known. Now on a fortified  island with the Tekkies, Rain searches for answers, truth and a way of escape for [...]

Close to Famous

Foster McFee is a baker extraordinaire, a future Food Network star, and a girl on the run from an evil Elvis impersonator. In the latest by Joan Bauer, Close to Famous, Foster and her mother find themselves in the small town of Culpeper, West Virginia, with the dream to find to a place to call home. What they [...]

The Big Stink

Nathan smells and not in a good way. The Big Stink is the latest in David Lubar’s series, Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental Zombie. As if being a zombie didn’t cause enough problems, now he stinks and is dealing with two school bullies! Can he make it stop? Can he stop the bullies? Read and find out!

Great Classics Revisited

While there are many excellent new children’s books every year, here are some classics that have been reintroduced to new readers recently.  Brave, imaginative, smart and full of adventure, the Remson sisters are a dynamic duo. In Betty MacDonald’s Nancy and Plum, two orphaned sisters are sent to live at a boarding home run by the cruel [...]

Presenting Super Chicken Nugget Boy!

First there was Captain Underpants! Then there was Horace Splattly, the Cupcaked Crusader! Now there is a new superhero in town, Super Chicken Nugget Boy! In Josh Lewis’ Super Chicken Nugget Boy and the Furious Fry(JF LEWIS), Fern Goldberg is a new kid in school and trying to avoid trouble with the school bully, Dirk Hamstone. [...]