Double Scoop – For this month we reviewed Owen by Kevin Henkes. We love this book for many reasons- perhaps mostly because we are blanket lovers just like Owen. This is a great picture book for all those who have children with a special blanket and those who don’t fall into that category will get a kick out of Owen anyway.
Cari’s Pick of the Month: Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
Holly’s Pick of the Month: The Toughest Cowboy. We loved this raucous, hilarious tale at our house and highly recommend it!
Books Reviewed by Holly
- The Time Travelers series by Caroline B. Cooney: Both sides of time, Prisoner of Time, Out of Time, For All Time
- The Toughest Cowboy or How the Wild West Was Tamed by John Frank, illustrated by Zachary Pullen
- Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes
- A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
Books Reviewed by Cari
Picture books
- Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Bryan Collier
- honeybees by Deborah Heiligman illustrated by Carla Golembe
- Skunks by David T. Greenberg, illustrated by Lynn Musinger
Middle Readers
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney read by Ramon de Ocampo
- Sisters of the Sword by Maya Snow
- Guts: True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
Blog Spotlights
Shirley at SimplyScience Blog an excellent blog about, as you guess, science. It has lots of great books to read and science activities for up to 5th grade from a former teacher who taught science K-12. Shirley also has written a trade book called No Bows and is definitely passionate about science.
Cindy Pon at a A Little Sweet a Little Sour also her website. Cindy’s debut novel Silver Phoenix is due to come out at the end of April. Cari first saw her book on someone else’s blog and was intrigued, fell in love with the cover of the book and the story idea. Cari is a huge fantasy fan and plans to read the book as soon as she can. Cindy is an artist/writer/ SAHM so check out her book and blog.
Announcements
The Cybils will be announced on Valentine’s Day. So stay tuned for the winners and checkout the finalists.
Our Doublescoop for February will be Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen in honor of Black History Month
You’ve been busy! I love Own and Wemberly, but relate best to Lily and her purple plastic purse!
thanks so much for the linky love! and yay for cari for being a fantasy fan! it, too, is my first genre love! =D
Christine- I also love Lily and her purple plastic purse. I’m a big fan of all Henkes books.
Cindy- I think we’re all on the same page. Fantasy is one of my top picks too!
Hi! I’ve been following your blog for some time now and finally got the courage to go ahead and give you a shout out from Humble Texas! Just wanted to mention keep up the great job!