Author: caribookscoops

I first fell in love with the story of Robert Smalls while watching a PBS documentary called Slavery and the Making of America. I loved his story and was thrilled to learn that Janet Halfmann had turned his story into a picture...

This is the book that I got from the author at the Utah Book Bloggers Bash hosted and organized by Natasha Maw. Now I was to0 embarrassed to admit it there, but you all know that writing on a blog gives one a sense of anonymity,...

As part of the Children’s Literature Book Club, I am reading several of the Cybils finalists for the month of February and will try and post reviews of as many of the books that I can. When I first started to read this...

I love fairy tales! Just something about being able to escape into another world and talk of magic, love and adventure and of course it’s a bit nostalgic, some of the first books read to me were fairy tales.  I am always...