“The Night Before Christmas” as told by ASL performer Keith Wann.
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.
What would you do if you had super speed? In Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off, a boy receives a mysterious box with super-powered purple sneakers.
Part history lesson and part children’s book, Come See the Earth Turn puts complicated science into its simplest terms and sheds light on how Léon created his world famous Foucault pendulum, an invention that would prove to the general public and his critics that the earth rotated.
Add this book to your collection: Llama Llama Holiday Drama by Anna Dewdney (Ages 0-5)
Sign of the Rat is an illustrated action thriller. The book features a 13 year-old archaeologist. His nickname is “Trouble.” The story is laced with exotic clues and set in Manhattan, Paris and Vietnam.
With so many blockbuster franchises targeted at YA and tween readers, why should a parent buy this book for their kid? There are three reasons – a gripping story, a cool educational website and supporting Doctors Without Borders.
Unlike other non-fiction children’s books focused on historical events, Cromwell Dixon’s Sky-Cycle features bright and playful illustrations that lend a lighthearted feel to the events that unfold, making the story of a child soaring into the sky on an unreliable and homemade device more playful hat most parents would probably think possible.
Mrs. McGee’s Garden, focuses on the message of self-respect and accepting who we are.
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review Published: December 3, 2010 Talk about eye-popping! Renowned artist J. otto Seibold has revamped Mother Goose classics, and we have one copy of the sparkling Other Goose: Re-Nurseried and Re-Rhymed Children’s Classics to share. Reading Level: All Ages Hardcover: 80 pages
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