I wish I had more time to read grownup books, but spending 12 hours a day with tiny humans allows no time to focus on books during the day and a habit of falling asleep watching Poirot every night by 9 pm. I do read a ton of picture books though, so… RoboSauce is by the same authors as Dragons Love Tacos, which I also highly recommend. Their writing style is conversational; they address the reader as “kid” and speak directly to her/him. I love […]
Poirot would not approve of this lack of Order.
Well, sometimes the review is not good. Bummer. This is one of those re-imaginings of a classic work by a modern author and it is not a success. Apparently this author is good, but I am not inspired to check out her other work. As a fan of Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot, this was not true to either the spirit or talent of either. I love me some Poirot, with all his OCD tendencies and his little grey cells. I have read every Agatha […]
How do Dinosaurs write book reviews?
I’m going to review this as a series but only count it as one review. The whole series is wonderful and the books are available in hard cover or as board books for the very little ones. This series of books by Yolen & Teague is great. I’m not really a fan of deliberately message-driven picture books. They are often heavy-handed and so boring (I’m looking at you, Berenstain Bears. Or I would be if our recent book sorting project hadn’t cleared all of your […]
Be Yourself. Everyone else is taken.
I’ve been reading a lot lately but having trouble feeling inspired to write reviews. Fortunately I never have any trouble blathering on about picture books. I’m a life long reader, grew up surrounded by books and live in a house full of children’s books. Reading is important to me. Inspiring children to love books is important to me. Even before they can read, they can love books. Crocodiles are one of my favourite animals (someone once tried to tell me that adults shouldn’t have Favourite […]