the excelsior file

 by Nathan Hale Amulet 2017 He's a one-trick pony One trick is all that horse can do ~Paul Simon The future of Earth looks prett...

by Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen Candlewick 2017 Triangle, an equilateral with a pair of eyes that look like painted white rocks...

by Davide Cali illustrated by Benjamin Chaud Chronicle Books 2015 Excuses, excuses, but it's the SIZE of the lies that impresses h...

by David Massey Chicken House / Scholastic 2014 Teens in peril. That's where you lose me. I try to read books as "blind...

by Ann E. Briated illustrated by Allie Ogg Bailiwick Press  2014 No. Wrong. Sorry. Not for kids. Terrible parody with no redeeming qua...

by Chris Haughton Candlewick  2014 Four black-ops solders take on an impossible night mission with little hope of success. Just kidding...

by Richard Scarry (mostly) Golden Books  2014 A recently discovered Scarry manuscript is unearthed... and out pops Lowly Worm! Weird-...

by Lisa Doan Darby Creek / Lerner  2014 Smart kid, dumb parents, and a menacing whale shark! What more could a kid want from a book?  ...

I am Rosa Parks By Brad Meltzer Illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos A whitewashed ( ahem ) picture book biography of the famed ...

by David Lucas Candlewick Press 2012 The unbeaten Skeleton Pirate who refuses to accept defeat is beaten not once but twice in this quirk...

words by julie fogliano pictures by erin e. stead. roaring brook press 2013 a very old school picture book poetic in word and image ...

There's reading, and there's writing, and there's blogging about reading and writing. I haven't been doing enough of any o...

by Lucy Cooke Margaret K. McElderry Books 2013 This non-fiction book, ostensibly for kids, should forever change the synonym for sloth ...