Xiao Fuxing is a prolific author writing for both adults and children. His children’s books include Hong lian’er 红脸儿 (The red face) and Jinse de caomao 金色的草帽 (The golden straw hat). He has won the China Book Award, the Bingxin Essay Award, and the Laoshe Essay Award. [...
Books I reviewed previously but perfect to use for Earth Day, includeA Tree is a Homeby Pamela Hickman and Zafouko Yamamoto is a beautiful picturebook to share with young readers when looking at the importance of all things tree-related (Kids Can Press).One Well, the Story of Water on ...
One day Loren and her friend are attacked on the streets and instead of Loren, her friend gets taken. The abductors soon demand ransom and ask for Loren’s life in exchange for her friend’s safe return. Loren has to partner up with Darienthe leader of the Seven Devils, the most feared...
“One Day”, by Suh Sunjung (Xu Xuanting) (Hyang [Xiangchu chubanshe]) [Korea] — Using a zebra crossing for the first time alone, a young child’s vivid imagination conjures up all kinds of creatures. // 徐瑄廷 : 《有一 天》【韩】(Thanks to Chiara Tognetti for help with this ...
Age/grade level:Adults Best LGBTQ+ The Pride Guide PHOTO: Amazon $45$42 at Amazon$25 at Walmart Why We Like It:It’s written explicitly for LGBTQ+ teenagers (and their families), with an engaging and humorous tone. But Take Note:The book is stronger on social-emotional topics than on...
Presents the true stories of 12 people, most of them teenagers or younger adults, from across North America who have done great things for the environment. Heroes include a teenage girl who figured out how to remove an industrial pollutant from the Ohio River, a Mexican superstar wrestler who...
“For a lighter read there’s A Little History of Music, in one of my favourite series, the Yale University Press Littles Histories series. In principle, the series is aimed at young adults, and this book opens with the basic question: ‘What is music?'” Read more... Notable Nonfiction...
The human brain needs time to process, categorize, prioritize, analyze, and otherwise make sense of all of the trillions of bits of information that it receives each day. Non-structured playtime for children functions much like sleep does for adults, giving their brains the time and space they...
What a child takes from a book is never what an adult takes from it. Ideas that are hackneyed and dull for adults are fresh and new and world-changing for children. And besides, you bring yourself to a book, and children are capable of imbuing words with magic that not even the autho...
The Surgeonis one of the twistiest medical psychological thriller books for adults. The Institution by Helen Sarah Fields – March 2023 Buy It here Synopsis: To beat them, she’ll have to join them… On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison hospital for the criminally insane...