The Babysitters Club: Kristy’s Great IdeaIt took me a chapter or two to get used to the graphic novel format, but once I trained my eye to follow the sequences of the drawings and stopped roaming the page, I really enjoyed this version of the BSC. I love the details Raina Telgemeier puts into her artwork – her faces are so expressive! Continue reading
Justin Morgan Had a HorseThis is a wonderful book for a child interested in early American history. In telling the story of Joel Goss, the author shows what life was like for a boy growing up just after the Revolutionary War. The reader follows Joel as he spends the last summer of his childhood journeying with music teacher Justin Morgan. Upon their return home to Vermont, Joel is apprenticed out to a local miller. As he learns his trade and becomes a young man, his path often crosses that of Li’l Bub, a colt belonging to the music teacher, and the eventual founding stallion of America’s oldest horse breed. Their reunion, and the empathy Joel feels in regard to the aged horse, is deeply moving. Continue reading
The Night Gardenerby Jonathan Auxier
Review by Andreana Duffy
Summary: The Night Gardener is about two Irish orphans who take up work in an old mansion. There they meet an odd family with odd ailments. They soon there that at night a creature stalks the grounds and they must uncover the mystery behind the creature and the curse that keeps it bound to the house. Continue reading
