The baby is 4-ish weeks old (will putting this kind of information on the internet lead to his identity being stolen in years to come?) and in the same period I have aged approximately 10,000 years. I read about motherhood for years – Rachel Cusk, Lisa Marciano – but reading it and...
In 1808 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, the youngest son of the famous composer, traveled to Lemberg. Today it’s Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, but when the eighteen year old pianist was packing his sheet music and books and setting off on his journey, it was located in Galicia, an ent...
In this introductory novel in the Border Noir Trilogy readers are introduced to Nate as a 31-year-old detective, working the Sex Crimes Division of the Tucson Police Department. Dealing daily with the most horrendous abuse and defilement mankind can handout, Nate must do battle with a fiendish...
My children adore Willems’ funny and charming books about a pig and an elephant who are best friends. They are early reader books with a very simple vocabulary, but they still manage to come across as sophisticated and witty (in a six-year-old kind of way). This one is my favorite. ...
This was such a fun read and Molly was such a fun character! While she didn’t have a lot of confidence in some areas (kissing boys), she still seem to be confident in knowing who she was – a girl who was crafty, loved Pinterest and loved her family. ...
Read expert recommendations Buy now The Bones of Me by Kel Duckhouse 15 year old Molly, who is growing up on an East London housing estate, is determined to be a boxer. Molly’s brother Denny has agreed to train her, but on the day of her first match he suddenly goes missing, th...
Read More... New York's Bookish Fashion Week Sunday May 8, 2022 Luxe Libris — A few weeks ago, I threw on a pink corduroy suit, book tote, and comfortable pair of shoes and headed to my first-ever New York Antiquarian Book Fair . . . Read More... Meet the New Old Book Col...
Through our talks, she’s opened my eyes about chapter books for kids. Specifically about one big reason why more kids might not be reading as much as she does. Research shows that the percentage of 6- to 8-year-old kids who read for fun several times a week drops by 9 percent by ...
11. Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real one. Now a ghost, Jerome watches the devastation unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing. Soon, Jer...
Suitable for Ages: 4-8 Themes: Homelessness, Poverty, Child’s reaction, Empathy, Kindness, Social Justice Synopsis:I See Youis a wordless picture book that depicts a homeless woman who is invisible to everyone around her—except for a little boy. Over the course of a year, the boy obser...