Tag: children’s lit
TOK Ottawa: Writing the Future – KidLit and YA
Emily
Last week I shared my notes from the TOK Ottawa panel on Writing in the Age of Netflix. This week, I’m continuing to share what I picked up at this wonderful symposium with my notes from Writing the Future: KidLit & Young Adult. Writing the Future: KidLit & Young Adult… Continue Reading TOK Ottawa: Writing the Future – KidLit and YA
ARC Review: The Glass Town Game
Emily
This lovely ARC of The Glass Town Game has been sitting in my TBR shelf since the Ottawa Blogger Meetup. It was too big for me to take on vacation, so I had to wait till I got home to start it. If you count September as the beginning of fall,… Continue Reading ARC Review: The Glass Town Game
Review: This One Summer
Emily
I picked up This One Summer in Fredericton while I was on (an impromptu) vacation. I’d seen it praised on social media and heard that Jillian and Mariko Tamaki were redefining the genre, at it won a GG, so I figured it’d be good. Plus, it seemed particularly fitting for a… Continue Reading Review: This One Summer
Review: Towers Falling
Emily
When her fifth grade teacher starts a series of lessons about the two towers once visible from her classroom window, Deja is confused. What does the past have to do with anything? Fifteen years have gone by since the towers stood. As she begins to piece together the details of… Continue Reading Review: Towers Falling
Review: The Best Worst Thing
Emily
The Best Worst Thing follows Maggie, a worried girl about to start middle school. With a murderer on the loose, a bully soon receiving a gun, rabbits held captive next door, and a mysteriously moody sister, there’s a lot that has her concerned and she doesn’t like it at all.… Continue Reading Review: The Best Worst Thing
Review: Everland
Emily
Everland presents a dark twist on J.M. Barrie’s tale of lost boys, pirates, and fairies. London is in ruins as a result of German invasion and a deadly disease has left only children alive. The teenage Gwen Darling struggles to keep her younger siblings Joanna and Mikey alive. When Joanna is… Continue Reading Review: Everland
Thoughts on Reading Wild Things
Emily
Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature is a non-fiction book about, you guessed it, children’s literature. Throughout, the authors, Betsy Bird, Julie Denielson, and Peter D. Sieruta, tell the untold stories behind many famous children’s books, providing interesting anecdotes and analysis. Even if you only have a slight interest… Continue Reading Thoughts on Reading Wild Things
Review: Fuzzy Mud
Emily
Tamaya Dhilwaddi and Marshall Walsh walk to and from school everyday. But when bully Chad Hilligas challenges Marshall to a fight, Marshall leads Tamaya into the woods to avoid it. They get lost and when Chad shows up all three find trouble in the form of mysterious fuzzy mud that… Continue Reading Review: Fuzzy Mud
Review: Brown Girl Dreaming
Emily
In Brown Girl Dreaming award-winning author Jaqueline Woodson shares her experiences of growing up in South Carolina and Brooklyn, New York, during the 1960s and 1970s though free verse. Woodson explores what it is to feel at home and like an outsider at the same time, while describing her growing awareness… Continue Reading Review: Brown Girl Dreaming
Review: The Nest
Emily
The Nest tells the story of older brother Steve, who struggles to cope with anxiety and his family’s concerns over his baby brother, who is sick with a congenital illness. After being stung by a white wasp, he gains the ability to speak with the queen of the hive built on… Continue Reading Review: The Nest