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August 8, 2024 by Betsy Bird

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.

May 24, 2023 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: The Probability of Everything by Sarah Everett

Sarah Everett wrestles with an outsized and ambitious bit of plotting, all the while keeping her cards close to her chest. Here’s some advice: Hand this to kids that like their books with a bit of a twist. And do NOT skip to the ending and read that first.

September 2, 2021 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: New In Town by Kevin Cornell

Folks, we live in an era of scam artists so if New in Town is just one of a million tiny answers to the question of how we create a new savvier generation, that’s good enough for me. An exceedingly clever, funny, eye-popping story about not falling for the words of silver tongued devils.

Review of the Day – Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made by Stephan Pastis

January 31, 2013 by Betsy Bird

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made By Stephan Pastis Candlewick Press $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-6050-5 Ages 9-12 On shelves February 26th Call it the attack of the syndicated cartoonists. For whatever reason, in the year 2013 we are seeing droves of escapees from the comic strip pages leaping from the burning remains of the newspaper industry into […]

Review of the Day: The (Mostly) True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick

March 20, 2009 by Betsy Bird

The (Mostly) True Adventures of Homer P. Figg By Rodman Philbrick Blue Sky Press (a Scholastic imprint) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-439-66818-7 Ages 9 and up On shelves now Ah, the inveterate child liar. The chronic juvenile dissembler. Is there any more classic character you can name? Whether it’s The Artful Dodger, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, The […]