This one was super cute and totally worth reading. It will make a great addition to a color, counting, or dog themed storytime.

This one is excellent. I love Gaiman's retellings. I got confused by some of the characters, but I think if I had a hard copy, it would have been easier to go to the glossary and remind myself about who everyone was. Well worth it.

Would you like to keep toddlers riveted? Try this book.

This book is really good. Charlie lives with his grandmother, older sister, and twin younger brothers. Their father is in the hospital, having suffered a brain injury while in Afghanistan. Charlie has a particular way of viewing the world, which is unique to him. He displays traits of OCD and autism, but neither is explicitly named. Events happen which require him to go on a road trip with his siblings and a woman they sort of know from the hospital. While on the trip, Charlie will be testing on how much he can handle. He will also attempt to find all the birds on the "Someday" list that he and his dad have created.

Charlie feels so real. You feel for this kid, who sees the world a specific way, knows it's different, but sticks to his own guns for the most part. He's struggling with a lot, but he makes his way through it. He doesn't always make the best choices, but he makes the choices that make sense for him. I really enjoyed it.

It was pretty cute, but I also had some consent questions for the kissing fish. You can't just go around kissing grumpy people.

I love this book and have no idea how I never encountered it before. Definitely want to do a storytime around it.

I wasn't sure what to think about this one. It seemed so weird to be reading a story about the Manhattan Project that seemed so innocent. I also wondered, as usual, how this book would be used. But we do start talking to kids about wars at a young age, don't we? This would be a gentle introduction to wars, our deadliest weapons, and the complications of science and war.

I have mixed feelings about this book. As a look at one family, it is excellent. Representative of an entire subculture? I'm not sure. I wasn't a huge fan of the endnotes in the back either. If it is going to be called a sociological work, I'd rather have more research done. Still, I can see why it has grown popular, and it was a quick and engaging read.

Pretty cute farm animal book with a good rhythm.

Still loving this series, the character development, everything. So glad to learn more about the Arno case. Not excited about waiting 30+ days for the next one ;)