Review by Cristina Silva Gleason 10-year- old Gus is autistic and unable to communicate with those around him. He struggles to be understood and heard. Chester is a super smart but failed service dog candidate. Can he provide Gus and his family the answers they’ve been searching for? Chester and Gus is a heart-warming fantasy…
Review by Adam Horejsi Do opposites attract? What do you like most about your best friend? Can they do all the things that you do? Perhaps you and your friend are like Colin and Lee. Colin and Lee are anything but similar on the outside but they have one thing in common – they are…
Review by Ali Larson It’s finally the big day… it’s Lola’s big sister’s quinceañera! This means everyone is preparing for the big celebration. Tias (aunts) are cooking, tios (uncles) are decorating, damas (ladies) are dressing Eva in her beautiful gown, primos (cousins) are keeping busy playing video games, and even the perro (dog) is busy!…
Review by Eileen Graves Blackbird said, “Color on the outside is not what’s on the inside. You don’t act like me. You don’t eat like me. You don’t get down in the groove and move your feet like me.” Such is the message of this wonderful, picture book, winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder and…
Reviewed by Laura Lemanski You thought you knew the story: rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, paper beats rock. But, oh no! In The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors, it is much more exciting in Drew Daywalt’s and Adam Rex’s take on the exciting legend that starts in “the Kingdom of Backyard.” Dewalt and Rex introduce…
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