Book Spotlight: Off We Go to the DentistThe Children’s Book Review
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.
Each page of the book is dedicated to a different quiet moment, beginning with “first one awake quiet” and ending with “sound asleep quiet.”
Last year, Underwood and Liwska’s New York Times bestselling The Quiet Book (2010) reminded us of the many different kinds of quiet that there are. This year, in the companion book, we get to discover different kinds of loud!
Robin Preiss Glasser is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series, written by Jane O’Connor; America: A Patriotic Primer, A is for Abigail, and Our Fifty States by Lynne Cheney; Daddy’s Girl by Garrison Keillor and Tea for Ruby by Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York.
The Adventures of Sharkey the Dog is a series of books written for children ages 3 – 6—a percentage of the profits go to animal help groups.
Recommended to adults who wish to recover the forgotten colours and to young people who are painting the future.
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Book Spotlight: LaRue Across America: Postcards From the VacationThe Children’s Book Review LaRue Across America: Postcards From the Vacation Written by Mark Teague Ages: 4-8 | 40 Pages Publisher: Scholastic | ISBN-13: 978-0545342360 What to expect: Travel, Adventure, Dogs, Friendship Ike’s plan for a peaceful cruise with Mrs. LaRue are thwarted when their neighbor, Mrs. Hibbins, falls suddenly ill. Mrs. LaRue suggests that she and Ike care for her cats while Mrs. Hibbins is in the hospital, inviting them along on the cruise. But cats aren’t allowed, and Mrs. LaRue decides to take them all on a week’s vacation of…
Countdown is about a girl named Franny who is in 5th grade during the 1962 Bay of Pigs crisis, which was a time when Russian missiles were in Cuba, aimed at Washington D.C.
Cool Conduct is a fun and educational question and answer book that identifies manners, etiquette and safety. The book is designed to encourage discussions of appropriate behaviors that develop respectful children.