The sequel to Uglies, also a NYT bestseller. I had a harder time getting into this book because of the way Pretties talk. I had no idea that a surgery could change the way that people talk so easily. I felt like I was in some cliquey Disney Channel movie or something....

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 on the look out for new fairy tales, or retold...

I read this book in a whirlwind created by multiple other books I was/am reading at the same time. It was out on the counter one day and my oldest passed by, glanced down and did a double take. "Mom, what's this book about?" he wanted to know. "Is it about soldiers?"...

I actually won a give away for Howie I can Read Series over at Tara Lazar - Writing for Kids While Raising Them. I am very excited because it's from Aaron Zenz author/illustrator and the genius dad behind Bookie Woogie. Where he and his children read and review books...

Today, Valentine's Day is the day the Cybils winners are announced. I was very excited because I had read several of the finalists for graphic novel middle grade, non-fiction picture books, and picture book categories. So without further delay here they are. Easy...

   I really liked this first book in the New York Times Bestselling Uglies series. Tally Youngblood is waiting in Ugly Town for her sixteenth birthday so that she can finally turn pretty and join her friends. Having a late birthday really stinks in Ugly Town. It...

I got this book in the mail last week and my daughter was very excited to help me open the package. I mean really who doesn't like to open up something in the mail and it was a book! We sat down immediately to read it and then the baby woke up and of course she needed...

–winner of the Caldecott Medal "Long before multicultural characters and themes were fashionable, Ezra Jack Keats crossed social boundaries by being the first American picture-book maker to give the black child a central place in children’s literature." I thought this...