It has been hard to post here over the last few weeks, but I am determined to finish listing my favorites of last year (even if, in the end, it is simply a list). These are not necessarily my Caldecott predictions, as the books that I end up loving most are often not the sort [...]

I thought about doing a “best of,” but who am I to say that? Also,  the books I loved the most are not necessarily the BEST books of the year in some cases. I tend to rate highly on readability and sell-a-bility, being a bookseller.  Sometimes that coincides with the ones that are likely to [...]

In honor of the early release of Chris’s new book THE CIRCUS SHIP, we are posting this video in which we ramble on like besotted maniacs about his books (for about six minutes). We made the video before the book had come out, thinking it wasn’t going to be released until mid-October, but we were [...]

Sarah was here visiting this weekend, and we decided to make a bunch of video reviews. They all ended up being about picture books, and most of the picture books were older. We decided that we would post these videos (whether we did them together or separately) on Tuesdays and call it OLD RELEASE TUESDAYS, [...]

Whenever I see a book like this my brain automatically adds a subtitle to the title, like HOW TO GET RICH ON THE OREGON TRAIL: Kill some Indians, take their land, and reap the profits of Manifest Destiny! And then I have to remind myself that I am 37, and it took me a long [...]

(or not so occasional…I’ll probably have several posts like this in the coming days to get some books out of my head, and then it’ll likely taper off a bit.)
It never fails to surprise me when people have never even heard of a book I love. Even though I know that there are bajillions of [...]