Tim Myers is a big personality, with energy pulsing off him, great waves of it. His children’s books have earned a Smithsonian Notable Book award and a National Council for the Social Studies and the Children’s Book Council. Basho and the Fox was a New York Times bestseller. He has a new children’s book, published by Sterling Children’s Books, Down at the Dino Wash Deluxe.
Browsing: Reluctant Readers
We’re overjoyed to welcome way cool, award-winning author Megan McDonald to The Children’s Book Review today. Much like her most famous character, McDonald has enjoyed a good luck streak of her own with her bestselling Judy Moody and Stink series. Don’t be fooled though, she’s worked hard to become such a talented writer.
This information for the best selling books was gathered from the New York Times Best Sellers list, which reflects the sales of books from books sold nationwide, including independent and chain stores.
By Nina Schuyler, The Children’s Book Review Published: July 12, 2013 If you have a kid, there’s a good chance you know…
Everyone who’s read Matilda, by Roald Dahl, knows how much she loves books.
Today, May 4, is the perfect day for Star Wars fans to celebrate, well, Star Wars. The following three book selections are a great way to honor the Star Wars films and culture.
These are books your builder will return to over days, months, weeks, even years.
With humor and flair, Michael Hearst introduces the reader to a wealth of extraordinary life-forms.
If you took everything that was coolest about James Bond, got rid of the foolishness about girls and martinis that fifth grade boys have no patience for anyway, and then, in a stroke of genius, got rid of James Bond, too, leaving just the villains, back when they were about thirteen, when they were just getting started, then you’d have “H.I.V.E. The Higher Institute of Villainous Education.”
School has started. Great news for some kids (a rare and exotic variety), bad news for some (more common), and mixed news for most. This post isn’t about a book or a series of books. It’s about making a place to be, well, Somebody: Alex Rider, Otto Malpense, Jack Gantos, Jasper Dash, you name it.