Feb 21 2025
You can say a lot of things about movie adaptations, but you can’t deny how great they are for bringing books back into public attention. The Wild Robot totally passed me by when it was first published almost a decade ago, so getting the movie tie-in from a publicist’s box was a nice little surprise. …
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Feb 18 2025
Matty is a grade-schooler who loves making homemade slime with his parents. When he gets permission to demonstrate how to make slime in art class at school, he’s super excited! He packs enough ingredients so that all his classmates can get some slime to take home with them, and repeats to himself the simple recipe …
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Feb 10 2025
subtitled A Lesson in Eye Contact, and frankly a very valuable read for anyone who’s ever struggled with sociability. This companion piece to Revony Rhinoceros Starts To Smile is another terrific book about how body language encourages relationships or otherwise. With its cute anthropomorphic cast, it’s an accessible way for people who struggle with social …
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Feb 03 2025
Happy Black History Month, readers! We’re kicking off February with this terrific children’s picture book about perspective and empathy and quietly standing up for yourself, because who couldn’t use a little more of that right now? Robert is a creative kid who has the eye of an artist. He never assumes that anything is just …
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Jan 27 2025
It’s so uncommon to find a book that perfectly captures both exuberance and empathy as well as Carla’s Glasses does! And especially in so few pages, and in a way that’s perfect for readers of all ages. Carla is one of those rare but delightful grade schoolers who loves standing out. When her teacher Ms …
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Jan 21 2025
subtitled A Lesson in Body Language. So I have two children on the autism spectrum, and one thing I don’t have patience for is autism advice that centers the parent over the child. That is, unfortunately, a perspective that drives way too many of the books available for people looking to better aid and understand …
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Jan 16 2025
I was a kid when I watched the Flash Gordon movie that was released in 1980, and all I remember of it was being distinctly unimpressed. So it was an absolute delight for me to go through the pages of this book and discover how charming the property could be in the hands of two …
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Jan 14 2025
I was today years old when I learned that seahorses change color! I was actually so surprised by the knowledge that I read this book with one eyebrow raised, till I got to the factual stuff at the back and was assured that this was, indeed, true. Honestly, this is one of the many reasons …
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Jan 07 2025
a Choose Your Own Adventure book! Can I say how much I love Chooseco’s Dragonlark series of CYOAs for younger kids, and especially the ones with female protagonists? I remember always wishing I had books like Fairy House Disaster as a kid, instead of having to pretend to be some dopey pre-teen boy making less …
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Dec 18 2024
What a charm- and value-packed compendium of virtually all the Scary Godmother material published to date! I knew of Jill Thompson from her work on Neil Gaiman’s Death and Endless properties for DC Comics, but hadn’t realized the extent of her oeuvre otherwise. In particular, I had no idea that her own original creation, Scary …
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Al Singh
Doug Merrill
Doreen Sheridan
Emily Lauer
John Pitzel
Lars N. Goldschlager
Laura Eilers
Professor X
Robert Maedgen
Sylvere Ap Leanan
The Shire