My fairy tale history is a little fuzzy. Here’s what I remember about Hansel & Gretel : A boy and a girl are lost in the forest. They...

After reading an ARC of Hold Fast , I immediately changed my read aloud schedule, moving the book to the top of the list for sixth grade....

The latest novel from Clare Vanderpool , Navigating Early , arrives in stores today. Had I known about her Newbery-winning debut novel, M...

I was recently given the honor of reviewing  The Dragon's Tooth by N. D. Wilson for The Rabbit Room , a website started by musician ...

An alternate history.   A possible future.   Regardless of how you look at Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld , the conclusion is this: Whoa, co...

In the introduction to Funny Business , the first genre-specific volume from the Guys Read Library, Jon Scieszka quotes E. B. White.  “Humo...

When you’re the new kid in fifth grade, the last thing you want is to draw any negative sort of attention on the first day of school. So whe...

Neil Gaiman doesn't waste time - or words, more accurately - getting to the story of Odd and the Frost Giants , but readers won't m...

Calvin Coconut is a Trouble Magnet , that much we know, but in The Zippy Fix author Graham Salisbury shows us that while Calvin not only a...

Judy and Stink Moody's last book, The Holly Joliday , featured Christmas vacation. Now they are on vacation again, and it's definite...

I don't think Lincoln and His Boys offers too much new or relatively unknown information about Abraham Lincoln, but it does offer a per...