In Lisa Papademetriou’s fascinating A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic (HarperCollins, 2015) two girls on polar opposite points of the earth are brought together by a magical book entitled The Exquisite Corpse. Kia is from Houston. Leila is an American living in Pakistan. Each have a copy of the magic book that writes its own… Read more »
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Sunny Side Up
Sunny Side Up by Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm Sunny’s parents are sending her to the Sunshine State to spend the summer with her grandfather and she doesn’t know why. He lives in a 55+ community where there are no kids, no pets, and by all accounts, no fun. Sunny had hopes of trips… Read more »
Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible
Harriet Hamsterbone is a brave, intelligent princess who excels in “traditional hamster princess skills, like checkers and fractions” but who is not very good at other princess tasks like “trailing around the palace looking ethereal and sighing a lot.” She loves her quail “steed,” Mumphrey. Together, they ride all over the countryside, pretending to slay monsters. Unfortunately… Read more »
An Interview with Nancy Bo Flood about WATER
Nancy Bo Flood is the author of many books, including Sand to Stone and Back Again, Cowboy UP – Ride the Navajo Rodeo, and most recently, Water Runs Through This Book, with photos by Jan Sonnenmair. Today, she’s stopped by ReaderKidZ to talk about her newest book. … Read more »
WATER RUNS THROUGH THIS BOOK by Nancy Bo FLood
Cowboy Up! author Nancy Bo Flood and photographer Jan Sonnenmair have partnered together once again to craft another incredible book. Their latest, Water Runs Through This Book (Fulcrum) is an active, vibrant, and poetic celebration of an element that is essential to all of life – WATER! Young readers will learn that water molecules are… Read more »
An interview with Don Tate
It’s a pleasure to welcome Don Tate back to ReaderKidZ to talk about his newest book, POET: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton. (Find a review HERE.) RKZ: POET marks an important milestone in your children’s book career. It’s the first book you both wrote and illustrated. Congratulations! Were there challenges that were unique… Read more »
POET: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF GEORGE MOSES HORTON by Don Tate
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton is the story of a man who was born with words inside of him – words full of life and love and wonder. Poetic words. Musical words. Profound and philosophical words. Thoughts and perceptions that had to be expressed. However, young George Moses Horton was enslaved. There… Read more »
