Fun Christmas book that will inspire kids to make cartoons and comics. Nice touch that the dragon celebrates Hanukkah and not Christmas. Fun rhyming text, engaging illustrations, and a suggestion for readers to write their own comics to Santa.

Babymouse is so funny and anxious and excitable and imaginative. It's always a fun rollercoaster reading one of her books. I liked how Hanukkah was included as well even though it's a Christmas book. 

This was a fun story to be in. I really liked the main characters and felt like I knew them right away and could relate. There were funny and tense moments, moments where characters said the right thing and where characters said the wrong thing, and so many interesting moments around baking, food, and beer! It was also the first time I had read a book where a character got top surgery; I can't speak for how accurate the representation of that was but I can be thankful it was included. I would read another book with these characters in a heartbeat!

Such an interesting read about how language can entice us to join a cult or want to be part of a cult like group. Language can be used to manipulate, like in cults, Scientology, and Multilevel Marketing, and it can also make ya feel a part of something that can ultimately be good, like a type of workout practice. A good read to make us aware of how powerful language is and how easy it can be get sucked into harmful things because of it. Though some of it was repetitive (across each section groups used language to help people form identities and ideas that ranged from extremely harmful to probably not bad) I enjoyed the nuance of how the language worked and was used to manipulate/encourage, depending on the case/environment. Pretty fascinating.

Excellent poetry about a range of topics. I love Rachel’s writing style; it’s so honest and vulnerable. She really makes you feel everything she’s feeling and working through with these poems. And I’m doing that it encourages you to examine your life more closely. 

This is such a fun book! In this series, Cat Kid and Molly lead a club for making comics so there are lots of comics featured in here too. The story is fun and the book will inspire kids of all ages to try their hand at comics. We laughed at the comics featured and also marveled at how cool they are.

Poor Wolf is hungry, that's the only reason he tries to eat Rabbit! But because of it he's kicked out of the valley, just in time for and Ice Bear to move in and make himself King. What can Bear and Rabbit do? Rabbit gathers his courage and seeks out Wolf to help them. I really liked how Wolf helped the other animals discover their inner wolf. It's a great story about standing up to bullies and finding the courage within yourself to do that. Love the illustrations in this series and there are always funny moments too.

Love this book. Nick and Charlie are such real characters, and this story pulls you into their day to day life, feeling like you really know them. The art is lovely and whimsical; the the story is at times heavy and light, just like life. I loved seeing their relationship develop in this volume.

This book is so necessary and well done. Four different outcomes of one event, so basically four different stories within one book, but with the same characters. I liked both Aaron and Tillie as main characters and felt for them from the first pages. The writing brings you in super close to their emotions so the book is really hard to read at times. The story shows how much our actions affect others, how valuable we are by just being ourselves, how hard life can be at times, how we touch people's lives when we don't even know we do, and more.

I really liked that the third section (the section where they both jumped) was the shortest and moved through the years quickly showing how their deaths affected their family, but also people they otherwise would have known and spent time with. I think it made it even more sad that that part was shorter because their lives were shortened.

I also appreciated that the parts that were repeated were told in a new/fresh way in the fourth part (where they both didn't jump), since we saw parts of what would have happened to each of them in the sections where the other jumped. 

A difficult read for sure, but I am constantly reminded that it is much harder for people to deal with depression than it is for me to read about it, so I'm thankful I'm only experiencing it this way. I think this book will help so many readers empathize with the struggles people go through when depressed, and how our words and actions can really affect the people around us.

I really enjoyed this book; Tookie was a great character with an interesting story to follow. This is one of the few books I've read that references Covid and the protests of 2020; it feels like that wasn't long enough ago to be in a book but here we are coming up on two years later. I enjoyed the mystery of why Flora was hanging around, and as a bookseller I loved reading about other booksellers. Tookie expertly described how it is to recommend the perfect book to someone. It was interesting to learn so much about Indigenous culture through the characters in this book too. I think this story has something for everyone and is a great one for booklovers in particular; there are a ton of book recs in the back of the book!