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Tag: 2025 reviews
Review of the Day: Fresh Start by Gale Galligan
This came out early in the year, but I'd like to remind you to give it a close look. Highly sophisticated art with an incredible batch of storytelling. Galligan's greatest is here.
Review of the Day: The Experiment by Rebecca Stead
A marvelous tale of space aliens and vast conspiracies. Put another way, just the thing to lure the science fiction curious back to the fold.
Review of the Day: City Summer, Country Summer by Kiese Laymon, ill. Alexis Franklin
A beauty, kid-friendly, fun, touching, and there’s just the barest hint of bittersweetness at its core. In short, the perfect summer picture book.
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Review of the Day: This is Orange by Rachel Poliquin, ill. Julie Morstad
The subtitle is spot on. This is a field trip through one color, and like every good field trip it leaves you seeing your world with new eyes once you’re done. Beautiful and necessary.
Review of the Day: Freya and the Snake by Fredrik Sonck, ill. Jenny Lucander
Finnish in origin, today's book discusses a rather universal moment: When a trusted and beloved parent chooses a child’s safety over that of an animal’s.
Review of the Day: The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner
You know what the hero of this book is doing when we first meet him? Kicking over the headstones of complete strangers in the cemetery. I review a STRONG title from Messner.
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Review of the Day: Tales From Beyond the Rainbow, collected by Pete Jordi Wood, ill. Various
Are you prepping for Gay Pride Month? Then you better HOPE you have this book on your shelves already. I review a rediscovered plethora of ten queer folk and fairytales, repurposed for 21st century kids today.
Review of the Day: The Reel Wish by Yamile Saied Méndez
Un-put-downable. A little more complex than its cover implies, this is a title to hand to that kid that always has to be the best, even if it kills them.
Review of the Day: Fireworks by Matthew Burgess, ill. Cátia Chien
Today's book is best described as beautiful, weirdly touching, and utterly original. “Swish Zing Tizzle-ting POOF!”
Review of the Day: The Black Mambas by Kelly Crull
This book? It’s a wonder. A joy. A small pinpoint of light in the darkness that is 2025. If you are in need of something that takes your faith in humanity and gives it a jolt to the gills, that would be this title.
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