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Tag: Harper Collins

August 3, 2026 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: Building 903 by Lois Lowry

I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed.

May 8, 2026 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: While We’re Here by Anne Wynter, ill. Micha Archer

Thoughts on gatekeeping, children's books, diverse voices, and how you can create a picture book that somehow, remarkably, gets everything right, all at once.

April 3, 2026 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: Is It Spring? by Kevin Henkes

False spring finally gets its day in the sun. An aid for any parent or caregiver faced with that look of betrayal on their child’s face when they encounter an Easter Egg hunt covered in a foot of snowfall.

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Review of the Day: Fireworks by Matthew Burgess, ill. Cátia Chien

May 9, 2025 by Betsy Bird

Today's book is best described as beautiful, weirdly touching, and utterly original. “Swish Zing Tizzle-ting POOF!”

Review of the Day: How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger

October 5, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Why, hello, funniest graphic novel of 2024 for kids!

Review of the Day: Not Quite a Ghost by Anne Ursu

May 10, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Somehow, Ursu has managed to write a legitimately scary ghost story (sorta) that’s also about accusations of hysteria, invisible illnesses, and issues in middle school.

Review of the Day: Slugfest by Gordon Korman

April 13, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Thanks to Slugfest, Korman has penned a book so enticing, so fun, so downright enjoyable, and so unapologetically sportsy, that it is impossible to resist. The book, quite frankly, that we’ve all been waiting for.

Review of the Day: Oh, Olive! by Lian Cho

October 6, 2023 by Betsy Bird

Amusing, sweet, and strange. A wondrous mix of the familiar with the utterly original. Meet Olive for yourself.

Review of the Day: Mr. S by Monica Arnaldo

August 4, 2023 by Betsy Bird

A book that takes a pretty basic concept and strings it along to its impossible, illogically logical, end. For some kids, this is going to be the book they remember for the rest of their lives.

Review of the Day: To the Other Side by Erika Meza

April 21, 2023 by Betsy Bird

With care and invention, Erika Meza tells a migrant story that is both literal and figurative, realistic and metaphorical, and does so with honesty and more than a bit of cleverness.