Barney Saltzberg is an über-talented children’s book author/illustrator/singer/songwriter. He has published around thirty books, recorded four CD’s of music for children, and has even written some songs for the PBS show Arthur. Once a year he teaches a class at UCLA on writing and illustrating picture 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.
Crystal Godfrey LaPoint is an accomplished composer and artist. For over three decades she has suffered from the dark legacy of depression. A survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault, Crystal is now a tireless advocate for survivors of relationship violence and for destigmatizing mental illness.
Bouncy the Smart Ball was created by Pier Bradshaw and written by Demetrius Bradshaw. Their goal was to capture the reader’s imagination by immersing themselves in the story as if they were there with Bouncy and the kids.
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review Published: February 14, 2012 New and Notable Loved Classics
Brian is the author of the young people’s novel “The Feast of the Moon,” a former high school English teacher, a free-lance writer, private tutor and fiction wizard for the Schaumburg Township District Library.
The hamster – who would be insulted to learn he was given a name – is born on a prairie preserve surrounded by subdivisions. While still a pup he is snatched from his burrow by a human and given to a pre-teen girl. Under her care he studies the baffling ways of these curious creatures, learning the surprising concept of friendship.
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Recognizable to many as the illustrator of Jack London’s Froggy series, Frank Remkiewicz has developed a new early reader series starring a sweet natured rhinoceros named Gus.
In honor of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth—February 7—Random House Children’s Books has published A Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by John Hendrix.
These picture books offer a playful and enticing wintery wonderland for young readers to lose themselves in.