Sometimes, as I ponder tactics for encouraging the “reluctant readers” in my life (typically late-elementary through middle-school boys), I cast my mind back to an earlier generation’s paragon of averseness, Mikey [Life cereal commercial]. Only instead of confronting Mikey with healthy breakfast cereal, in my imagination, I confront him with fiction.
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.
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Toni Buzzeo, MA, MLIS, is a New York Times bestselling author as well as a career library media specialist. She writes picture books for children as well as many professional books and articles and lives on a colonial farm in Maine.
When it comes to delivering a message of conserving resources for our future, child-centric stories are the perfect antidote. As gentle as a floating cloud overhead, these books give “green” power to the young people!
The Children’s Book Review Published: April 15, 2012 Penguin Young Readers Group presents … Penguin Young Readers Group is gearing up to hit the road this April with our first YA or BUST! Group Tour! Featuring some of our most popular contemporary young adult authors, this tour will be trekking up and down the west coast visiting fans in schools and stores along the way.
The Rosie Flo coloring books have long been a favorite of fashionable kids and kids at heart. Now Rosie is working the runway in the Rosie Flo Coloring Fashion Show, an easy-to-construct paper pop-up theater and a runway that sets the stage for 18 paper models to strut their stuff.
David A. Carter is the amazingly talented paper engineer behind 75 pop-up books, including the bestselling Bugs in a Box® series that has sold more than six million copies.
Here’s the scoop on the most popular destinations on The Children’s Book Review site, the most coveted new releases and bestsellers.
The following books have been carefully selected to honor modern day Easter celebrations—Easter eggs, Easter egg hunts, bunnies, and more—and the fruitful season of spring.
Follow the ins and outs of divine social life at Mount Olympus Academy where the most privileged godboys and goddessgirls in the Greek pantheon hone their mythical skills . . .