In The Princess and the Pit Stop the use of the different fairy tale characters is clever, but overall it is the race Vanellope of Wreck it Ralph entered with every “twisted fairy tale pun” possible. Yet, Tom Angelberger can be forgiven for that as the book is just plain funny and well done. It is perfect for the four to eight-year-old crowd. Clever illustrations of Dan Santat with his signature style and great colors help this book to be a more fun read. It […]
Elephant & Piggie Like Reading, Do you?
The author behind the Elephant and Piggie books and the Pigeon of driving a bus fame books, (Mo Willems) has created a beginning reader series, Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! Each one is illustrated by a different popular children’s illustrator. Each book is a book that Elephant and Piggie are reading and not them as the main characters. One of those books is The Itchy Book! With the text by Willems (in his signature style) and the illustrations by Leuyen Pham this new series keeps […]
The Unimaginary Friend
I rarely reread a book, but when I do it is usually because I really enjoyed it, wanted to find something I missed or forgot I had read it before. The Adventure of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend falls in that last category. I do not think I had an imaginary friend as a child. I know that I had an imagination and had “playmates” but none “stuck” as being the imaginary friend. Maybe that is why I always look at books about imaginary friends with […]