For Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2017–which aims to raise awareness about the need to include children’s books that celebrate diversity in home and school bookshelves–we reviewed the “Barefoot Book of Children.” Beautifully illustrated and full of fascinating detail, the book takes kids on an eye-opening world journey. It made us
By Lisa Cohn Two Roving Reader Leaders–a club created by me and Michael–appeared on live TV yesterday to share their love of reading and discuss their book reviews and author interviews. With teddy bears in hand, they discussed their favorite books and their recent interview with Troy Cummings, the popular
Four Roving Reader Leaders–fans of children’s book author and illustrator Troy Cummings–demonstrated their love and knowledge of Cummings’ Notebook of Doom series in a fun Skype interview with the author. During the interview, the boys, age 8-11, members of the Roving Reader Leaders, informed Cummings of when his next book
What prompts an 8-year-old budding book reviewer to shout “I love this book!” while swinging from a rope swing (while clutching the book in hand?). In this case, Michael, our budding KidLit reviewer, says the book, “Teddy Mars: Book #1: Almost a World Record Breaker” prompted the excitement. He stayed
Which KidLit Books are our Roving Reader Leaders excited about this summer? Levko, age 8, and Lukyan, age 10, are visiting Switzerland for two months. They just got library cards and checked out some of the books in the “Wimpy Kid” series plus “Bad Kitty for President.” Kerrigan, age 8,
Michael, age 8, our kids’ dog book reviewer and dog lover, just discovered the Rider Woofson series, about a pack of detective dogs led by Rider Woofson. Michael recently reviewed the first two books in the series–written by Walker Styles and illustrated by Ben Whitehouse–while vacationing in Hawaii. When we
We’re excited that Scooby author Laurie Sutton granted 7-year-old Michael’s wish to include a spiky monster in her next book! The Scooby-Doo! book, “Legend of the Gator Man” will be released by Capstone in October and features a monster that looks like this:
By Lisa and Michael Cohn We love dog books that teach life lessons! In our latest kids’ dog book review, Michael, age 7, reviews “Brave Nellie,” and says (in his own words) that this book teaches kids to be brave and open to new experiences. The book begins with Nellie
By Lisa Cohn and Michael Cohn Michael, age 7, loves to give advice to young readers at bookstores and libraries. And that happens nearly every day because he frequents bookstores and libraries most days. If
By Lisa and Michael Cohn Michael, our 7-year-old kids’ book reviewer, has read every “Magic Tree House” book he can find in libraries and book stores. In this kids’ book review, conducted in Charlottesville, Va., Michael reviews “Eve of the Emperor Penguin,” giving it 99 million plus 99 stars. Michael