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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Easy Books
2025 turned out to be a particularly good year for books for the newest of readers. Check out this array of talent!
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Easy and Early Chapter Books
Whatever you might call them, today's books are the titles that transition children into first reading on their own, and then into reading on their own for pleasure.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Easy Books and Early Chapter books
BOTH easy books and early chapter books are the hardest types of titles to write for kids. That's why it gives me so much pleasure to present you today with this incredible list of really and truly magnificent examples of the form.
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Review of the Day: Worm and Caterpillar Are Friends by Kaz Windness
Worm and Caterpillar by Kaz Windness takes a dive into some well-worn territory of children’s literature and manages to forge an entirely new path that is entirely of its own making. A welcome entry in a thoroughly difficult format.
Review of the Day – Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories by Jarvis
Today I ask you to consider Bear and Bird and all their myriad adventures from the small to the slightly less small but always cozy. Raw charm on the page.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2022 Easy Books and Early Chapter Books
The books on today's list pack a lot into their tiny packages. You know the drill. Easy Books come first. Then the Early Chapter Books
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2021 Easy Book and Early Chapter Titles
In the old days I used to separate out my Easy Book lists from my Early Chapter Book ones. This year, I may regret not doing that. So many good books!
Cover Reveal and Interview Extravaganza! See The Dog: Three Stories About a Cat with David LaRochelle and Mike Wohnoutka
Looks like we have a cover reveal worth checking out. Now find out if Baby Cakes returns, what animal Mike Wohnoutka prays David LaRochelle won't put in a book, and what's in store for the intrepid duo.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Easy Books and Early Chapter Books
Easy Books might have been scant in 2020 but Early Chapter Books abounded. We take a look at the titles that fill a very real, ever present need.
Review of the Day: See the Cat by David LaRochelle, ill. Mike Wohnoutka
You can hand today's book to a kid learning to read, absolutely. Just be warned that their read may be punctuated with interjections of a highly voluble nature. In other words, this is laugh-out-loud funny.
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