This book is massively too long for a board book. I don’t even find it interesting and entertaining. The idea behind it is to get a kid ready for a hike by naming supplies and everything else but its book tries to do too much at once. 

 

This book is fun. Its rhymes are contagious. The cadence is great and has a nice break where there needs to be, plus, that break is repetitive, so it makes sense. The illustrations are bright and colorful and are sure to grab any kids’ attention. 

 

This book is a DNF at 97 pages. Two cute boys in boarding school like each other, but one is very uptight and the other is more lackadaisical and fun loving. There is something going on with the uptight one something about their father and needing to keep things on the down low. So Our fun loving guy who is an actor, keep things on the downlow for the other person even though it makes him a different person. This is just too much drama. I understand the serious boy wants to stay in the closet and has something to do with his father. There’s a section about consent. That is kind of nice. Nice is the wrong word but when you see it, you would get it. However, 97 pages felt like 300 pages. It felt like this was never ending and I have no desire to read the next 196 pages. 

 

This story of fencing and family is one that I’ll have you in your feels. It’s a story out there for girls that don’t have the Gilmore Girls type of relationship with their mom. Its also about learning that not all friendships last forever but the best you can do is be you and try new things. This book was real and heartfelt and there will be girls out there that need this book, and it will be there lifeline while they are trying to figure out middle school. 

 

This is a look at a year and the lights that are seen in the night. Anything from headlights to porch lights to even the glow of the eyes of animals at night. What really sets this book apart is the illustrations. They’re colorful, but they’re also soft and nostalgic and have a dreamlike quality that is perfect to read right before bed. 

 

This is a book for all those children out there with anything considered a disability. It’s a book to let them know that they’re not alone that they are special and unique just the way they are and that there is community for them. The illustrator did a fantastic job including multiple variations of so-called disabilities, medical equipment, etc. Overall, this book was fantastic and a perfect addition to any Library collection. 

 

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. There’s still this idea that Library should be quiet and a stereotype that Librarians shush. But in modern times a quiet library is usually a dead library. Libraries need activity and people to thrive. They need open discussions and chances to learn new things. This book celebrates a modern library and it’s about time more books about libraries made this the new stereotype. 

 

This book follows the Tanaka family for a year. It’s generic. Each set of pages there’s something for the reader to do either image to find, something to count, etc. The illustrations are lovely, but overall as a story this book is quite long. This is one of those books where I see parents skipping pages to get kids to go to sleep faster. 

 

This is a new beginning chapter series. It’s full of puns and magic. Our main character and her mom run a bakery and while our main character is learning magic she also has to do the daily deliveries. This book is exactly what one expects from the title and from the cover. It’s cute. It’s fun. There will be those who like it and want the next one. 

 

This is an early chapter book about Esme and her deciding to make a new friend of Wendall. Wendall is part of a Badger troop. Wendell is trying to sell their last box of cookies. Esme can’t be a badger so she decides to make her own troop instead. Through the people in her building, she makes costumes and patches and a motto, etc. Through this her friendship with Wendall bloomed. This book is fine. It’s a tad long for my taste, but I do like the illustrations.