The Children’s Book Review | June 15, 2016 Enter to win a complete autographed set of the If You Were Me and Lived in … An Introduction to Civilizations Throughout Time series, written by award-winning author Carole P. Roman and illustrated by various artists. Age Range: 7+ About If You Were Me and Lived In … An Introduction to Civilizations Throughout Time Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new series. Learn what kind of food you might eat in Ancient Greece, the clothes you wore in 15th century…
Author: Bianca Schulze
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.
Here are five middle grade books I don’t think you should ever share with anyone.
I Have Faith, written by Davin Whitehurst and illustrated by Tiffany Brown, is a short picture book designed to help start discussions between children and their caregivers about faith in God.
The Children’s Book Review | June 7, 2016 Age Range: 3-7 Hardcover: 48 pages Tomas and the Galapagos Adventure Written by Carolyn Lunn Illustrated by Ashley Rades Publisher’s Synopsis: Join Tomas as he rides his beloved horse, Bonito, through his home of Ecuador and see the landscape from the banana plantations to the beautiful wooded hills. Travel with Tomas as he goes on a dream journey to explore the ocean and beach of one of the Galapagos Islands. From riding a green sea turtle and seeing a humpback whale pod and hammerhead sharks, to a lunch of fresh fruits and fish with pirates on…
The Children’s Book Review | June 7, 2016 Celebrate the release of the latest Nuggies adventure, Nuggies Vol. 4: Oui Oui Gigi, by entering to win an autographed copy. The grand prize winner will also win a totally cool OSMO Gaming System for iPad, Genius Kit. Age Range: 4-6 Hardcover: 34 pages Oui Oui Gigi: Nuggies: Volume 4 Written by Jeff Minich Illustrated by Renan Garcia Publisher’s Synopsis: After getting lost in Paris, Chomper and Coco are spotted by the local dog catcher and suddenly find themselves on the run. Then they meet Gigi, a French Nuggie who offers to help them…
Carolyn Lunn is a Colorado author of seven children’s books, who is inspired to write by her two children and her world travels.
This month Lady Midnight, by Cassandra Clare, and the The Unexpected Everthing, by Morgan Matson, are in our hand-picked list from the Best Selling Young Adult HardCover books listed on The New York Times.
Firoozeh Dumas, the author featured in our May ‘Selfie and a Shelfie’ article, made the top of our best selling middle grade books list with her wonderful book It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel.
The best selling picture book from our affiliate store is Daniel Pinkwater’s oldie-but-a-goodie The Big Orange Splot.
It’s time for our June edition of “Best New Kids Books!” Hooray for plenty of lazy, beautiful, summer reading time. And, for some, it’s also time for prepping growing littles for preschool or kindergarten