Thank you to Tanglewood Press (here in my home state of Indiana!) for the opportunity to review this book. Chester Raccoon is learning his colors, and he’s bringing his forest friends along for the fun in Audrey Penn’s A Color Game for Chester Raccoon. In this rhyming story, Chester and his friends find things of all different colors in nature, and they...

Flip and Flop by Dawn Apperly is the story of two penguin brothers, Flip who is 5 and Flop who is 2. They love playing together, but sometimes Flip wants to play with his older friends, which makes Flop feel very lonely. Luckily, Flop is able to make a new friend, and everyone gets to have fun together. I haven’t done a “classroom tested” book review in a...

A new children’s book coming out this spring is causing a lot of controversy. Vegan is Love by Ruby Roth is an introduction to the vegan lifestyle for children. However, many are upset by the book’s descriptions of animal testing, the images of animals in cages, and the fact that the book encourages children not to go to zoos or circuses. There are many...

Thank you to Picture Window Books and Capstone for the opportunity to review this title. Big Sisters Are The Best by Fran Manushkin shares all the reasons why it’s great to be a big sister, as told by the adorable narrator, herself a big sister. Kirsten Richards’ warm and inviting illustrations accompany this tale of the life of a new big sister....

Thank you to Sourcebooks for the opportunity to review this book. Play Baby Play! by Marilyn Janovitz is the fun new companion book to Go Baby Go! and Baby Baby Baby! In this story, Janovitz shows us all the fun ways baby plays, from books, to balls, to musical instruments. Baby has so much fun playing, by the end of the book he has fallen asleep! Both of my boys...