Super cute alert: Kimochis

Kimochis are so adorable I want to squeeze the bejeebers out of all of them. Including the books (it is totally ok to hug a book). Which I think makes me Huggtopus, the octopus who sometimes gets a little overexuberant with her enthusiastic hugging. Kimochis are cute...

Children’s Book of the Week: The Scary Places Map Book

I feel like I need a new category for reviews: Books that Are Keeping Henry Unbelievably Occupied, But I Don’t Really Know What They Are. In that category I’d put The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat and Do Not Open and Fantasy: An Artist’s...

New review: A Strange Place to Call Home

New review today! Check out the Brain Burps About Books podcast to hear all about how the first time I read A Strange Place to Call Home by Marilyn Singer and Ed Young, I had no idea what to do with it. And then how I looked at how much Henry was loving it, just...

New Review: Wagons Ho!

I love when Katie puts me in a podcast episode with someone I admire. I know that my review and the interview logically have nothing to do with each other, but, in my head, I like to think of them as “the Jane Wattenberg/Julie Falatko episode” or the...

New Review on Brain Burps: Another Brother

Check out my new review on Brain Burps About Books today: Another Brother by Matthew Cordell. Here’s what I love about social media: Darshana Khiani from Flowering Minds is my Goodreads friend, and she sent me a message saying she thought I’d like this...

New review on Brain Burps: Say Hello to Zorro!

Today I’ve got a review on Brain Burps About Books of the super cute picture book Say Hello to Zorro! by Carter Goodrich (you can tell it’s super cute, right? just look at that cover!). I fell in love with Zorro and did the review, and then just this week...