Reviews 2026
Review of the Day: The Muéganos by Jaque Jours
Jours adeptly takes an incredibly silly idea and manages to make it poignant and universal in one fell swoop. This is a story about breaking a family apart, but in the best way possible.
Review of the Day: My Bicentennial Summer by G. Neri, ill. Corban Wilkin
Neri takes the facts of what happened when his family embarked on the road trip to beat all road trips, and ties that summer during the bicentennial into the state of the country today. Deeply fun, utterly smart, and visually arresting.
Review of the Day: A Scar Like a River by Lisa Graff
Sometimes an author just works themselves up to the book of a lifetime and you are lucky enough to watch that happen in real time. That’s pretty much what we have here. The kids that get to read this book for the first time are lucky too.
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Review of the Day: The House With Nobody In It by Jon Klassen
This book works its way into the fissures and cracks of children's gray matter, affecting their reading preferences for, potentially, their entire life. For that to happen, you need something a little weird, and special. You need a book like this.
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