picture books
Picture Book Frenzy: Benjamin’s Blue Feet by Sue Macartney
Thank you Pajama Press for sharing this engaging and nature-centered picture book with the Lit Review Crew. I really loved the inside cover with the Galapagos creatures inside and the note at the end about waste in the oceans. I also enjoyed the unique vocabulary, like “string-stretch-it” to describe the…
Picture Book Frenzy: Pinky Crashes the Party by Michael Portis and illustrated by Lori Richmond
Thank you Crown Books for Young Readers and creators for sending this book to the Lit Review Crew! This was such a fun book to read and would be a blast to read with a younger reader because you could play hide and seek! Pinky hides on each page and…
Picture Book Frenzy: No Fuzzball! By Isabella Kung
Thank you Scholastic and Isabella Kung for sharing this book with me and the Lit Review Crew! I am a cat person, all the way. (I am not a dog person…shhh…don’t tell!) This book was laugh out loud hilarious and adorable. One thing I really liked was that the book…
Picture Book Frenzy: This is A. Blog by L.A. Kefalos and illustrated by Yuriy and A. Blob on a Bus by Kefalos and illustrated by Jeffrey Burns
Laughing Leopard Press reached out and asked me if This is A. Blob and the sequel, A. Blog on a Bus, would be good reads for the Lit Review Crew. I said yes, and now it is time to share this blob with my followers! Here is an excerpt from…
Picture Book Frenzy: A Journey Toward Hope by Victor Hinojosa and Coert Voorhees and illustrated by Susan Guevara
Four unaccompanied migrant children come together along the arduous journey north through Mexico to the United States border in this ode to the power of hope and connection even in the face of uncertainty and fear.Every year, roughly 50,000 unaccompanied minors arrive at the US/Mexico border to present themselves for…
Quick Review: Dinosaur Lady by Linda Skeers
DINOSAURS. PALEONTOLOGY. WOMAN SCIENTIST. DISCOVERY. Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks for sharing this book with me in exchange for an honest review. Fans of Jess Keating’s Shark Lady will love Dinosaur Lady! This is a book about Mary Anning who changed the way the scientific world viewed the natural world…
Lindsay Leslie. A Slytherpuff Ravenclaw Who Writes Books
Introduction: About You 3 Little Known or Interesting Things About You I’ve finished an Olympic-distance triathlon.I became a certified scuba diver at the young age of 10. I used to co-own a pie company. Hogwarts House I’m a Ravenclaw. Although my sister likes to call me a Slytherpuff. If you or…
Goo on my Shoe by Jacqui Shepherd and SKlakina
I recently had a really awesome and interesting interview with children’s author Jacqui Shepherd (check it out here!) and right after that, her newest book Goo on my Shoe became available for my Kindle! I knew I had to check it out, and I am so glad I did. Here…
Meet the Storyteller, Jacqui Shepherd
About me: Hello everyone, my name is Jacqui (Van der Merwe) Shepherd. I am a children’s author. My goal is to create fun-filled stories that entertain, encourage and empower little lives. I live in sunny South Africa. 3 Little Known or Interesting Things About Me: 1. I consider myself more…