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Lincoln Peirce’s Big Nate is Back with New Misadventures

New York Times best-selling author, Lincoln Peirce, is back with everyone's favorite troublemaker, Big Nate, in Big Nate: Payback Time! (Andrews McMeel) Lincoln’s unique comic-styled writing allows readers to follow Nate’s adventures from frame to frame with all his mayhem illustrated. Like many energetic sixth grade boys, Big Nate and…
Rachael Suhie
March 28, 2019
Children's Books

National Geographic Offers Exciting Giveaway

The Explorer Academy is a series created by National Geographic to invite young readers on exciting global missions using technology and science real explorers would use. The second installment of this series following The Nebula Secret is The Falcon's Feather, available March 19, 2019.  For more information on this upcoming release…
BookTrib
March 18, 2019
Children's Books

Adorable Alert: First Graders Give “Book Reviews”

Let’s face it – some book reviewers are pompous, verbose and heavy-handed. So we’d like to present you with 15 reviewers who most certainly are not! They are first-graders from a public school in Southern Connecticut who were asked to write reviews of their favorite books. And BookTrib received permission…
BookTrib
March 14, 2019
Children's Books

A Feminist Leader A Century Ahead of Her Time

As Jeannette Rankin was becoming one of the leading suffrage voices in America in the early 1900s, she would utter those words to children in one of the 25 speeches she was said to give over a 25-day period. Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress, in 1916.…
Jim Alkon
March 12, 2019
Children's Books

Circle Gets the Square in New Kids’ Book

Circle has her reasons for the rule in the marvelously simple and beautifully illustrated children’s book, Circle (Candlewick Press), the third book in the clever shape trilogy by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen. It’s been called “wry and resonant,” with pitch-perfect pacing and subtle, sharp wit, written for ages 5…
BookTrib
March 4, 2019
Children's Books

Oh Susannah Series Unpacks Stressful Situations

Carole P. Roman, author of many beloved children's books, unpacks the stress of school and bustle of a busy home in her Oh Susannah series. The instantly lovable third-grader Susannah illustrates how easy it is to feel frightened or overwhelmed by a mountain of responsibilities just going about your everyday…
Rebecca Proulx
February 20, 2019
Children's Books

The World is Going Bananas Over Llamas

Word has traveled up to the Andes, to a group of llamas, that the world is going crazy over them! So begins the recently released fun journey and seek-and-find activity book, Where’s the Llama? (Andrews McMeel Publishing), illustrated by Paul Morgan and Gergely Forizs and written by Frances Evans. “Feeling…
Jim Alkon
February 11, 2019
Children's Books

Beloved Writers Wolitzer and Sloan Pair Unlikely Friends

So begins one of the zaniest, touching and innovative novels about friendship and family that you’ll come across. In To Night Owl From Dogfish (Dial and Dutton Books for Young Readers), bestselling authors and friends Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer tell the story of two girls who start out as strangers and end up as…
Jim Alkon
February 8, 2019
Children's Books

Winners Named for Coveted Children’s, YA Book Awards

The American Library Association this week announced the top books, video and audiobooks for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards – at its Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, ALA awards guide parents, educators, librarians…
BookTrib
January 29, 2019
Children's Books

Gary the Giraffe Teaches Kids To Ask For Help

It's fantastic when children act independently and want to try new things on their own, but they can also hurt themselves or become easily frustrated in the process. Giraffe Asks For Help (Magination Press), written by Nyasha Chikowore and illustrated by Janet McDonnell, tells the story of the lovably determined giraffe, Gary,…
Rebecca Proulx
January 7, 2019