This story is quite slow.  It's about a woman who decides to grow christmas trees.  We followed her and the neighbor boys a few years until the first cut.  The story is sweet, but a bit boring unless you are really interested in christmas trees.

This was basically a biography of Santa.  In this biography he comes from Cincinnati.  He was a normal every day kid who just liked to build toys and give them out.  The story was cute, but way too long for story time. It would be a nice bedtime read.

This is a beautiful book.  The watercolor illustrations are dreamy but match each dragon perfectly.  The book just has characters telling us about what types of dragons they have, much like a class of kids would tell someone about their dogs.

Wow was this book good.  The title was a bit of a come on- but at the same time it taught me something I didn’t know.  I loved everything about this title and hope it gets put in the hand of lots of kids.  Plus, I think it does a better job of telling Ruth’s story than the Little People big World books.

The world lost an amazing Children’s author when Ms. Rosenthal passed.  This was one of her later stories.  It’s about believing in magic, and magic believing in you.  The illustrations are a perfect dreamy quality to go with this dreamy story.

Love it.  Told in the traditional “I know an old woman” this story was a bunch of fun.  Plus I love that the old witch does not die inthe end.  Then top everything off with great, funny, and wonderful illustrations by Catrow, and man this story is awesome.

If you want to do a new version of “Press Here” but make it feel fresh, this is the way to do it.  The Elf in the book is going to give it’s readers a “Nice test” to make sure they get a visit from santa.  This was a really fun book and would be a blast at story time.

I really wanted to like this book.  Turns out its a book about temper tantrums and the damage that can be caused.  The story was okay, but the illustrations are better.

So my first thought it that this book is cute and I really like it, however, we are a more enlightened age.  This book is all about being who you are born to be. You cant be someone/thing else because you were not born the way they were.  And while my initial reaction is I like this book, my second thought is how would a trans kid feel reading this, and it makes me think this book is not so great.

I loved this story.  I loved this true life story of a Black boy from New Orleans who looks at his heritage as he looks to the future.  More real stories like this are needed for our kids.  Add to the story the fantastic illustrations and this book is a solid 5 stars.