Wow! This month is proof of good reads, everything remains the same on our best selling kids series list; including the blast from the past … the Mr. Men and Little Miss books.
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.
If you’re looking for a novel that will linger with you for days, The Children’s Book Review’s number one best selling young adult book is Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira. Our hand selected titles from the nationwide best selling young adult books, as listed by The New York Times, features titles by super-talents John Green, Ransom Riggs, and Markus Zusak.
This month, The Children’s Book Review’s best selling middle grade book is the imaginative and adventurous Copper from Kazu Kibushi.
Our best selling picture book for the past month is Herve Tullet’s completely awesome Press Here (Chronicle Books, 2011). As per usual, we’ve shared our hand selected list of the most popular picture books from the nationwide best selling picture books, as listed by The New York Times
Hot New Releases & Popular Kids Stories
Saddle up, readers! With so many amazing children’s books releasing it was hard to select just five of the best new kids stories to share with you this month.
The Children’s Book Review | August 27, 2014 About Guinea Dog 3 “Youngsters will eagerly jump in for another fast, fun read.”—Kirkus Reviews “Another cute and laugh-out-loud entry in the series.”—School Library Journal An award-winning, hilariously funny middle-grade series about guinea pigs who act like other pets will move its author, Patrick Jennings, into the ranks of much-loved writers, such as Louis Sachar and Andrew Clements. When Rufus, Murphy, Lurena, and their pets go camping, they meet Pedro, a shy boy who seems afraid of just about everything–especially the water. One thing leads to another and the kids go into a nearby…
Ginger Nielson tells a soothing folktale set deep in the forest. When Little Bear asks, “Where did the stars come from?” Mother Bear leans in closely to share a Native American legend from “the far, far north.”
Here is book for both girls and boys that not only teaches kids to work together but introduces them to a world of knowledge about a very specific insect that typically does not get the opportunity to star in a children’s book, the cockroach.
Risen is the third book in Michael Phillip Cash’s dramatic sci-fi trilogy, the Darracia Saga.
Evil Fairies Love Hair, by Mary G. Thompson