Today we’re blogging for a specific purpose; we’re participating in the Blogging for LGBT Families Day, hosted by Mombian on June 1, 2009. And so, We Love Children’s Books fades to background and our sister company, Two Lives Publishing, comes … Continue reading
Last week we visited friends in the beautiful Hudson River Valley. Debra and Arnie Cardillo are the owners of Live Oak Media, known for its amazing and award-winning readalong productions and unabridged audiobooks of first chapter books and middle-grade fiction. … Continue reading
The Cuckoo’s Haiku written by Michael J. Rosen illus. by Stan Fellows Candlewick Press, 2009 Hardcover, 978-0-7636-30492 I’ve never been much of a birder; I just didn’t ‘get’ it. But over the last year my interest has sparked, probably because … Continue reading
I didn’t intend to do a little roundup; it just sort of evolved on its own. It all began with a visit to the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester VT. One of several timely displays in the children’s book area caught … Continue reading
Bird, Butterfly, EelStory and paintings by James ProsekSimon & Schuster, hardcover978-0-689-86829-0 I hadn’t read the author’s first book for children, A Good Day’s Fishing, but I did read his YA novel, The Day My Mother Left. I loved the gentle … Continue reading
A Drowned Maiden’s Hair: A Melodrama by Laura Amy Schlitz Candlewick Press, 9780763638122 We try so hard to keep up with all of the new children’s books being published that it really surprises me when one slips through. Somehow that … Continue reading