If your young reader is a magician, a mermaid, a wizard or a dreamer… …this magnificent book is for you. THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET is an EXTRAORDINARY book. The New York Times described this book as, “…a silent film on paper” and like the individual cells in a film, two hundred and eighty-four [...]
True confessions: I haven’t read The Hunger Games and if you were to ask me if I was a dystopian fiction fan, I would say, no. No, I am not. If you were to tell me that I might be compelled to sit in one spot and read a Y/A dystopian novel from cover [...]
LOOK OUT SOLITAIRE! Here comes DUTCH BLITZ, a brand new card game at Kidsbooks. Created by Werner Ernst George Muller, and referring to the Pennsylvania Dutch or German emigrants to Pennsylvania, Dutch Blitz, like solitaire is a game of sequencing. Drawn up with lovely traditional graphics that make reference to quilting and Amish-like dress, [...]
