David Goodner and Louis Thomas’s Ginny Goblin Is Not Allowed to Open This Box is not a Halloween story. It is a story about patience and imagination. However, Ginny and her adventures will make a nice addition to ones Halloween book collection. Ginny is told she cannot open the oh so special box her parents have for her. That is, it cannot be opened until dinnertime. But of course, being a typical kid, she will pull out all the stops to find a way to […]
Let Music Ring!
Let Music Ring! Is there a rating higher than five? I do not usually get this excited over a book. In the end this is just a really good book. However, the fact they talk about lynching in a children’s book (though tastefully done, if such a thing is possible) is a real eye-opener for how far books have come. This is what makes this book stand out. It is not shying away from the issue of race, discrimination and the results of that. It […]