Review 2024
Review of the Day: Kwame Crashes the Underworld by Craig Kofi Farmer
You want a plot that’s tight? World-building that manages to be both comprehensible and succinct? And heart too, right? You want to actually feel something as a result of the hero’s journey? Welp, here you go.
Review of the Day: A Terrible Place for a Nest by Sara Levine, ill. Erika Meza
Hope is hard to write in a book. Hope is particularly hard to write in a picture book. Still, when someone gets it right, there’s nothing else like it. Maybe it’s true. Hope? It really is a thing with feathers.
Review of the Day: How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger
Why, hello, funniest graphic novel of 2024 for kids!
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Review of the Day: Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, ill. Ashley Mackenzie
Is Katherine Rundell our fantasy book savior or did she just write a perfectly decent and fun book? I review the title that has the critics ablaze in praise.
Review of the Day: The Yellow Bus by Loren Long
Is this a future classic? The answer may lie in the goats.
Review of the Day: Go Forth and Tell by Breanna J. McDaniel, ill. April Harrison
Add a great text and art from an illustrious artist and you’ve got on your hands a librarian biography that’s a cut above the rest. A book that surpasses its form. A tale worth telling.
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Review of the Day: The Wrong Way Home by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Consider today's book for any kid who is ready to doubt everything they ever knew about narrators.
Review of the Day: We Are Definitely Human by X. Fang
The kids are going to come here for the kooky aliens, but the whole reason the book works is because at its core this is a picture book about a kind of kindness we should all strive for in our lives.
Review of the Day: Beware the Dragon and the Nozzlewock by Vikram Madan
Since poetry and comics make for a perfect match, this latest from Vikram Madan is the ideal way to lure kids into ingesting a little verse.
Review of the Day: Mid Air by Alicia D. Williams
Adept and fleet footed with nary a misstep, allow me to recommend a little something to wring your heart out and then pump it up all over again.
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