Golden Poppy Awards Announced: The California Independent Booksellers announced the winners for the 2024 Golden Poppy Awards. Recipients for books for young people are: Picture book: The Man Who Didn’t Like Animals by Deborah Underwood, [continue reading]
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Read-Alikes – Revised
Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Revised by Jeff Kinney Angleberger, Tom. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. Brallier, Max. Last Kids on Earth. Eliopoulos, Christopher. Cosmic Commandos. Freeman, Martha. Goldilocks, Go Home! Grabenstein, [continue reading]
Dog Man Read-Alikes – Revised
Dog Man – Revised by Dav Pilkey Angleberger, Tom. Two-Headed Chicken. Banks, Steven. Middle School Bites. Barnett, Mac. The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza. Benton, Jim. Clyde. Brown, Jeffrey. Lucy & Andy Neanderthal. [continue reading]
Evolution: A Celebration of Beautiful Animals Review
Spring, William. Evolution: A Celebration of Beautiful Animals. William Spring, Illus. Candlewick/Big Picture, 10/2024. 110pp. Nonfiction. Trade $22.99. 978-1-5362-3835-8. GRADES Kindergarten–3. HIGH ADDITIONAL. Pencil and watercolor illustrations highlight fifty interesting and unique animals – most of whom are endangered or threatened. Each double-page spread includes a few [continue reading]
My Daddy Is a Cowboy Review
Seales, Stephanie. My Daddy Is a Cowboy. C. G. Esperanza, Illus. Abrams, 06/2024. [48]pp. Picture Book. Trade $18.99. 978-1-4197-6081-5. GRADES Kindergarten–4. OUTSTANDING. A young girl is woken up before dawn by her father so that they can share a pre-sunrise horseback ride through the streets of [continue reading]
Louder Than Hunger Review
Schu, John. Louder Than Hunger. Candlewick, 03/2024. 506 [+22]pp. Fiction. Trade $18.99. 978-1-5362-2909-7. GRADES 5–9. OUTSTANDING. This fictionalized memoir in verse follows eighth-grader Jake as he obsessively exercises, limits his eating, and begins to waste away, while facing feelings of disconnection from his parents and [continue reading]
Chooch Helped Review
Rogers, Andrea L. Chooch Helped. Rebecca Lee Kunz, Illus. Levine Querido, 10/2024. [40]pp. Picture Book. Trade $19.99. 978-1-64614-454-9. GRADES Kindergarten–1. ADDITIONAL. Two-year-old Chooch wants to help with what others are doing, which always results in messing something up, no matter who in the family [continue reading]
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A LOVE Story Review
Reynolds, Jason. Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A LOVE Story. Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy, 10/2024. 239 [+17]pp. Fiction. Trade $19.99. 978-1-6659-6127-1. GRADES 6–Adult. OUTSTANDING. Jason Reynolds takes on the topic of teen romance and love, specifically examining the state of mind of seventeen-year-old Neon as he approaches the [continue reading]