This month our best selling picture book from our affiliate store continues to be the lively board book Peek-a-Zoo!, by Nina Laden.
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.
Wow! This is a great month for picture books—amazing picture book authors and sensational illustrators star in this month’s new release kids books. Plus, The Penderwicks in Spring is here!
The Children’s Book Review | February 28, 2015 About If You Were Me and Lived in … Greece It’s never too early to start teaching children about the world around them. In If You Were Me and Lived in…Greece , early learners get a taste of what their life would be like if they lived in Greece while being introduced to the birthplace of democracy. This book is the latest installment of the educational series about the cultures of the world that speaks to young children about the topics that interest them, such as the foods people eat, the names of boys and…
The Children’s Book Review | February 27, 2015 About Homer the Little Stray Cat Homer is a precocious and perpetually dirty stray cat living on the city streets he calls home. One day an unexpected accident leads to the discovery of something he’s never had before, a loving family. About the Author Pamela L. Laskin is a Lecturer in the English Department and Director of The Poetry Outreach Center at City College, where she has taught composition and creative writing for over twenty-five years. Her published children’s books include A Wish Upon a Star (Magination Press); Historical Heroic Horses (McGrawHill); Music From…
The Children’s Book Review About Crime Solver’s Detective Agency Meet Karrine, a clever, witty twelve-year-old with her own detective agency. “No job is too big” is her motto. In Dognapped, Karrine scours the city to find the beloved stolen pet of a kind older woman. In the Magical Disappearing Act, a magician’s assistant disappears, and it’s up to Karrine to solve the mystery. In The Painted Ponies, Karrine, along with her quirky cousin, Jayden, who has come for a summer visit, must discover who would want to paint all the ponies in Mr. Jackson’s stable. I our final story, The Body,…
12 of the Best Kids Books About Candy
It’s time to upgrade your library bag for a super-sized treat bag because this list of tantalizing kids books if full of reading candy!
The Wisdom of Merlin: 7 Magical Words for a Meaningful Life (Philomel Books, March 24, 2015), by T.A. Barron.
Giveaway begins February 24, 2015, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends March 23, 2015, at 11:59 P.M. PST.
Author Rany Shamloul, in his first children’s picture book, discusses acceptance and resilience through the eyes of two lovely characters, SoSo-lala, a funny robot and Amelia, a cute little girl.
Bella and Harry, two friendly Chihuahuas, visit countries around the world with their family of people. In this edition, Bella and Harry visit Rome, Italy.
The Children’s Book Review | February 19, 2015 Age Range: 10 and up About The Jaguar Stones: The Lost City The epic conclusion to the exciting Jaguar Stones series and a rip-roaring adventure into the heart of America! With his parents in jail and the Maya Death Lords in possession of all five Jaguar Stones, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy is pretty sure that he’ll never get to leave the rainforest. But the Lords of Death have a problem—a new king calling himself Great Sun claims to have the Jaguar Stones, too. And they want Max to prove the guy’s a fraud. Or else. Now,…