Author: Bianca Schulze

Bianca Schulze is the founder of The Children’s Book Review. She is a reader, reviewer, mother and children’s book lover. She also has a decade’s worth of experience working with children in the great outdoors. Combined with her love of books and experience as a children’s specialist bookseller, the goal is to share her passion for children’s literature to grow readers. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, she now lives with her husband and three children near Boulder, Colorado.

The Children’s Book Review “Believe in the unexpected” with this hilarious, heartwarming, and much-anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller The Fourteenth Goldfish! Friendship, humor, and science all mixed-up together in one fab middle grade novel. The Third Mushroom Written by Jennifer L. Holm Publisher’s Synopsis: Ellie’s grandpa Melvin is a world-renowned scientist . . . in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy. His feet stink, and he eats everything in the refrigerator—and Ellie is so happy to have him around. Grandpa may not exactly fit in at middle school, but he certainly keeps things interesting. When he and Ellie…

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The Children’s Book Review The Children’s Book Review: Which five words best describe Saving Winslow? Sharon Creech: Gentle, funny, Creechian, sincere, poignant (it feels odd to describe my own book this way. . .Maybe these are attributes that I hope readers will find in the book.) Can you share a highlight from the book? Or maybe your thoughts on—or an excerpt of—your favorite sentence, paragraph, or page? The scene between Louie and Nora in Ch. 9, p. 31, emerged one day and gave me great insight into Nora’s character: Nora looked Louie in the eye. “Our brother was born two months…

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