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canthaveshitingotham · 2 months ago

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i DID read all of these except for the one specified.

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-all the authors ripping off their actual successes like the pigeon goes to school or clifford takes a shit or whatever the hell. those are all f tier

-one of my favorites, "good news, bad news" which i couldnt find in the room where books are kept. thats a tier

S TIER:

-everything is connected by jason gruhl, illustrated by ignasi font. can't really communicate how good this one is, makes me want to write picture books

-happy (says mies van hout and lemniscaat but i dont know who the author is out of those). highly expressive drawings of fish paired with simple labels of emotions. i LOVE things that encourage kids to look at more abstract art

A TIER:

-pete the cat and his four groovy buttons, written by eric litwin and illustrated by painter james dean who i believe did pete the cat before he was books. cute and not nearly enough childrens books with a message of "don't worry too much"

-harry the dirty dog by gene zion, illustrated by margaret bloy graham. a fascinating allegory for the human condition and it teaches kids about negative space

-not quite narwhal by jessie sima. very nice and positive outlook on multiple identities, perfectly executed. twee but who cares

-on the night you were born by nancy tillman. highly joyful and lightly religious.

-meesha makes friends by tom percival. about autism, kinda heavy handed, still nice

-what will fit? by grace lin. visual mathematics and spatial reasoning. too rare in books for young children

-bringing the rain to kapiti plain by verna aardema illustrated by beatriz vidal. lovely fairy tale, nice rhyming, was one of my favorites as a kid

-the red book by barbara lehman. no words, fascinating storytelling. loses a few points because its reliant on the kid audience paying close attention

-the color kittens by margaret wise brown. the best classic little golden book ive ever seen by far. little more than that.

-go, dog, go! by pt eastman. a good seuss disciple until the part where all the dogs have a party in the tree, a concept which i remember bringing great delight to me and other young girls

-the family book by todd parr. todd the legend. this is his only book here and it's a perfect a. nothing noteworthy but books like this dont need to be

-ten little fingers and ten little toes by mem fox, illustrations by helen oxbury. the best of the "youre a baby" books here. nice and cute message of all babies on earth but loses points because there have to be some babies born with a different amount of digits right

B TIER:

-i see you (by?) eric carle. eric the legend. this one is adorable, exactly the quality youd expect from such an artist.

-fry bread by kevin noble maillard, illustrated by juana martinez-neal. massive bonus points for the pages covered with tribe names. great example of how to introduce things like this to kids without downplaying the size of history

-the mouse, the strawberry, and the big hungry bear by don and audrey wood, illustrated by don wood. i just realized myparents are gonna be really mad if they come home and the floor is covered in books. even cuter when i realized its written by two people.

-walking together by elder albert d marshall and louise zimanyi, illustrated by emily kewageshig. simple injection of native spirituality, would cause kids to ask questions (good)

-the umbrella by beth ferry and tom lichtenheld. simple but holds attention perfectly until the payoff.

-the very hungry caterpillar by eric carle. eric the legend. classic on its own. nothing to say

-abuela by arthur dorros, illustrated by elisa kleven. another sweet family story. extra love that it teaches spanish without feeling catered towards english speaking white kids.

-thunder bunny by barbara helen berger. best of all the "animal is born with a weird trait" stories present for its shameless mythologization.

-here and now by julia denos, illustrated by e b goodale. a lot of basic stuff about mindfulness that wouldve went in one of my ears and out the other, but i think they hit on more by asking children to think directly about the book being in their hands or their teachers hands, their bodies being positioned in relation to that, the floor and ground, and so on. its almost like simulation psychadelics in that sense

-the tenth good thing about barney by judith viorst, illustrated by erik blegvad. good basic meditation on death but wordy

-mr brown can moo! can you? by dr seuss. theodore. i wasnt going to put this any higher because i have nothing to say but what could i complain about

-a little stuck by oliver jeffers. apparently an abridged version of stuck? boring but thats the point, which is a good artistic concept to introduce to kids. i would talk about it if i were a librarian

-goodnight moon by margaret wise brown. was always boring to me, but legendary as a work of poetry

-the empty pot by demi (no further information). i love classical allegories!! i dont know if children do so much though

-in the attic by hiawyn oram, illustrated by satoshi kitamura. kind of story thats overdone except for the twist at the end which wraps it up nicely.

-og clifford by norman bridwell. i forgot there was an actual premise in the first book

C TIER:

-moon by britta teckentrap. cute concept, wouldve bored me.

-little you by richard camp, illustrated by julie flett. also lovely but would have bored me.

-it's spring! by samantha berger and pamela chanko, illustrated by melissa sweet. was expecting this to be nothing but it's definitely something. interesting that this one took two people to write though

-where the wild things are by maurice sendak. never cared about it as a kid but legendary art.

-little blue truck by alice schertle, illustrated by jill mcelmurry. the best of all the "relatively small machine" stories present.

-a friend for growl bear by margot austin illustrated by david mcphail. some fake ass last names in here. one of my favorites as a child but it also made me sad until the last page

-the snowy day by ezra jack keats. god tier illustrations, wouldve bored me.

-are you my mother by p d eastman. nice, classic. been aped plenty.

-my heart fills with happiness by monique gray smith, illustrations by julie flett. hold on pause post. another one that does nothing wrong but i would not have taken much from it

-don't let the pigeon drive the bus! by mo willems. very great concept leaning into child contrarianism, i saw an interactive childrens theater play based on it once and it was very fun

-"huggy kissy" and "potty", from a series of other books with similar names, by leslie patricelli. unexpectedly cute and concise but expectedly very basic, no points for narrative effort

-blueberry girl by neil gaiman, illustrated by charles ves (?) i cant see the name now in the photo i took. as i read this i thought "this is nicely structured and sweet but has weird appropriative white people vibes". then i saw the author and that made sense. my prayer for neil gaimans daughter is a bit different: break contact asap

-lloyd finds his whalesong by skylaar amann. not particularly unique but a good opportunity to teach about different forms of communication between humans and animals

-along came a fox by geogiana deutsch, illustrated by cally johnson-isaacs. story concept is b tier but the aesthetics chosen are simply too generic

-full, full, full of love by trish cooke illusrated by paul howard. this one is boring by way of plot but pro-soul food family books can only go so wrong. as things stand theres too many books about white children eating apple slices with grandpa i dont fucking care

-aberts tree by jenni desmond. interestingly, uses the same forest aesthetics i hated in along came a fox, but i dont find them as grating here. the story is ok

-all you need for a snowman by alice schertle, illustrated by barbara lavalee. as a child i did not understand the premise that the children are doing a stone soup type of thing. to me it was just a book about snowmen with an increasing number of words in the same sentence which is pretty common for childrens books

D TIER:

-the mole sisters and the question, other mole sisters books, by roslyn schwartz. for some reason reading these made me genuinely mad but i cant dock too many points because i literally cant put my finger on why

-the hike by allison farrell. LOVE the words on each page labelling the visible elements of nature. dont really care about any other part of this

-stellaluna by janell cannon. sorry but i think this one is boring. you only liked it because you thought the bat was cute. overhyped

-i am perfectly designed by karamo brown, with jason "rachel" brown, illustrated by annosha syed. theoretically sweet and moving but the art style does something bad to my feelings towards humanity

-lola reads to leo, lola plants a garden, lola visits the library by anna mcquinn. very goody two shoes, would have hated this, but slightly better production quality than most other equivalent books. ranked in order of most to least premise

-outside in by underwood/derby (??). very preachy. important subject, but not a lot of room for kids to think about it for themselves

-the lion and the mouse by jerry pinkney. i love when fables are retold in a more conscious and empathetic manner like this and i like wordless stories but the realistic art style combined with no words wouldve meant i tuned out instantly if this was ever "read" to me like it would instantly dissolve in my brain

-tumble bumble by felicia bond. plotless and the art style makes me sigh but i also "liked" this one a lot when i was young (prompted thoughts of spatial reasoning in my mind, i actually remember finding it a bit frustrating)

-the piggy in the puddle by charlotte pomerantz, illustrated by james marshall. art is very cute to me as an adult but i wouldve disliked this for the general lack of payoff

-let's go, froggy! by i cant tell the page is ripped. subject matter is something i was deeply frustrated by as a child but in theory i like these kinds of narratives where parents make the same mistake as their children. execution is mediocre.

-i am a bunny by ole risom, pictures by richard scarry. holy shit i dont care. im so mad at the idea of trying to form an opinion on this

- i am a mouse by ole risom, pictures by richard scarry. are you fucking shitting me dude

-annie and the wild animals by jan brett. i also dont know what the hell i could possibly say about this one. ranked lower than the others for feeling slightly pretentious without the presence of any intelligence to justify it.

-the maybe garden by kimberly burke-weiner, illustrated by fredrika p spillman. this is a bad picture book for children but honestly a pretty good one for adults. i think the value of the message and tone would be lost on children it would just be really boring to them

-i can do it! by trish holland, illustrated by vanessa brantley newton. this is a childrens book written to appeal to adults, not like the one i just described above being good for adults to read, but for adults to feel good about giving to their kids who will not care because its just a portrayal of a child going to school. i remember books like this having a condescending feeling that made me mad though i didnt know why at the time. its because theres nothing for a child to get from this its for parents

-a fox found a box by ged adamson. same watercolor woodland aesthetics i hate, story adds nothing to make it worthwhile

-mike mulligan and his steam shovel by virginia lee burton. love the personification of the steam shovel, everything else is dismal

F TIER:

-many moons by james thurber, illustrated by louis slobodkin. i usually like fairy tales more than this. i think i always hated stories where characters were tricked superficially like this by people close to them because i was scared of that

-seeds and trees by brandon walden, illustrated by kristen and kevin howdeshell. what the hell did the author of this book do. this is some james sunderland shit

-the rainbabies by laura krauss melmed, illustrated by jim lamarche. boring and i hate how close the old people are to you in the drawings. i like the old man on the back pogging though

-bear and wolf by daniel salmieri. waste of paper. literally what was the fucking point of this

-elizabeth hen by siobahn dodds. wouldve been a great way to teach about the difference between fertilized and unfertilized eggs but thats too close to sex i guess so lets just waste more fucking time and paper and ink

-good dog, carl by alexandra day. seems like someone politely informing you of a better childrens book you could write than this one

-charlies superhero underpants by paul bright and lee wildish. wouldve scored higher if the book jacket didnt use fucking metallic print. insanely self important for something with no substance

-the seven silly eaters by mary ann hoberman, illustrated by marla frazee. this poor woman gets no fucking break until her kids make her a cake on ACCIDENT

-the rose in my garden written by arnold lobel, illustrated by anita lobel. i remember that i read this one but i cant for the life of me remember what it was "about", im guessing nothing

-the night before kindergarten by natasha wing, illustrated by julie durrell. oh my god i dont care. get this white child out of my sight forever

-franklin and the thunderstorm by paulette bourgeois, illustrated by brenda clark. i fucking hate franklin

-i'm a bulldozer by dennis r shealy, illustrated by bob staake. propaganda

-the little snowplow by lora koehler, illustrated by jake parker. less informative that the previous one and i hate the snowplows fucking face.

-all baby einstien books. in a complete inversion of the name, these are an insult to the intelligence of the age group zero and up

-maybe by kobi yamada, illustrated by gabriella barouch. trying to skate by on the talent of your illustrator is low.

-my beautiful child by lisa desimini and matt mahurin. dont remember a single thing about this but apparently it sucked

-emma's pet by david mcphail. ??? what relation does this have to anything. i genuinely cant think of a thing to take from this as an adult i dont know why it was made

HELL TIER:

last week tonight with john oliver presents: a day in the life of marlon bundo, by jill twiss, illustrated by e g keller. i did not even open this one. everyone involved in making this should be burnt at the stake. apologize to marlon brando. apologize to rabbits. apologize to children. apologize to art

this weekend im staying at the house i work at and ill be making a tier list of all the childrens picture books there

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ecreads · 4 years ago

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Title: Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

Author: Kevin Noble Maillard

Illustrator: Juana Martinez-Neal

Published: October 22, 2019 by Roaring Press Books

Genre & Format: Nonfiction, Verse & Poetry, Picture Book

Key Themes: Family, Food, Multigenerational, Native American & Indigenous Peoples’ Stories

Reading Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade

Language: English

ISBN: 9781626727465

Content Warnings:

None

Publisher’s Synopsis:

“Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal. Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brings families together for meals and new memories. Fry bread is nation. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. Fry bread is us. It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference.”

Review: Dr. Debbie Reese: American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL)

“Those of you who follow AICL know that we emphasize the importance of sovereignty... Of knowing that Native Nations pre-date the United States. So many names inside this book! It will be empowering to so many readers.

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Fry Bread pushes back on the expectation that Native people look the same (black hair, dark skin, high cheekbones etc.).

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The final pages of Fry Bread can help you interrupt that kind of harmful statement. There, Maillard wrote that: ‘Most people think Native Americans always have brown skin and black hair. But there is an enormous range of hair textures and skin colors. Just like the characters I this book, Native people may have blonde hair or black skin, tight cornrows or a loose braid. This wide variety of faces reflects a history of intermingling between tribes and also with people of European, African, and Asian descent.’

It is quite the challenge to impart substantive information in an engaging way, but Maillard and Martinez-Neal have done it, beautifully, in Fry Bread. I highly recommend it! [...] In the Author's Note, Maillard provides teachers and parents and librarians who do not know this history, with information they can use to prepare to use the book with kids. It is an exquisite author's note! It spans eight pages that correspond with the illustrated pages that are the heart of Fry Bread. “

Additional Resources:

Purchase

Virtual Storytime with Kevin Noble Maillard

Kirkus Review

Common Sense Media Review

#fry bread #kevin noble maillard #juana martinez-neal #2019 #roaring press books #nonfiction #verse #picture books #family #food #native american stories #preschool #kindergarten #grade 1 #grade 2 #grade 3

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thatwritererinoriordan · 4 years ago

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#fry bread: a native american family story #Kevin Noble Maillard #Juana Martinez-Neal #picture books #children's books #reading

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novelistra · 5 years ago

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NoveList's Juvenile Brain Trust is a group of readers' advisory librarians and metadata librarians who focus on books for kids and teens. Once a week, the JBT gets together to catch up and share books. On 11/6/2019, we discussed a trifecta of indigenous #ownvoices picture books:

At the Mountain’s Base, Traci Sorell, illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre

Birdsong, Julie Flett

Fry Bread, Kevin Noble Maillard, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal

Have you read any of these books? What do you think of them?

For more recommendations (plus printables and readers’ advisory tips), check out what's new on the NoveList blog.

#jbt book share #book discussion #librarians #picture books #at the mountain's base #birdsong #fry bread #traci sorell #julie flett #kevin noble maillard

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underthetweed · 5 years ago

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Fry Bread: A Tribute to Family and Tradition | An Interview with Kevin Noble Maillard

#THIS BOOK y'all #fry bread #kevin noble maillard #picture books #indigenous representation #diverse reading

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mysteryofthings · 7 years ago

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#taylor sheridan #kevin noble maillard #casting #racism #indigenous people #link

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jooliefiveash · 4 years ago

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So I made these recommended reading lists for a final this term and thought I’d share them!

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Native lit for Adults:

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

There, There by Tommy Orange

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

The Only Good Indian by Stephen Graham Jones

YA Native Lit:

Standing Strong by Gary Robinson

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States For Young People, by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Children’s Book Native lit:

Birdsong by Julie Flett

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Tradition by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez

The Forever Sky by Thomas Peacock and Annette S. Lee

Nimoshom and his Bus by Penny M. Thomas and Karen Hibbard

Fall in Line, Holden! By Daniel W. Vandever

Native Comics and Graphic Novels:

Prism Stalker vol 1 by Sloane Leong

Moonshot vol 1-3 edited by Hope Nicholson

Golden Kamuy series by Satoru Noda

Deer Woman: An Anthology edited by Elizabeth Lapensée

Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection edited by Matt Dembicki

Native films:

Reel Injun (2009)

The Lesser Blessed (2012)

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)

The Rider (2017)

Mekko (2015)

Native music:

Navajo Country Music by Dirt Rhodes

Wovoka by Redbone

At the Party With My Brown Friends by Black Belt Eagle Scout

A Tribe Called Red by A Tribe Called Red

Baby Blue by Mourning Coup

#indigenous #native lit #indigenous books #joolieart

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the-forest-library · 2 years ago

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November 2022 Reads

Longshadow - Olivia Atwater

Marmee - Sarah Miller

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Red, White, & Royal Blue: Collector’s Edition - Casey McQuiston

Scattered Showers - Rainbow Rowell

Ship Wrecked - Olivia Dade

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail - Ashley Herring Blake

The Man I Never Met - Elle Cook

Kiss Her Once for Me - Alison Cochran

Before I Do - Sophie Cousens

A Cosmic Kind of Love - Samantha Young

When in Rome - Sarah Adams

How to Excavate a Heart - Jake Maia Allow

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory - Martha Wells

Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett

Maybe an Artist - Liz Montague

Ride On - Faith Erin Hicks

The Sea in Winter - Christine Day

So Much Snow - Hyunmin Park

Fry Bread - Kevin Noble Maillard

The Electricity of Every Living Thing - Katherine May

All the Living and the Dead - Hayley Campbell

It Didn’t Start with You - Mark Wolynn

Dickens and Prince - Nick Hornsby

The Future is Disabled - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen - Sean Sherman

Waxing On - Ralph Macchio

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing - Matthew Perry

We Were Dreamers - Simu Liu

Have I Told You this Already? - Lauren Graham

Surrender - Bono

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts:

So, obviously the standout this month was Dracula - nothing could compare to reading this novel through Dracula Daily and the entire tumblr experience of it all. What an absolute treat.

This was a much better reading month than I remember it being. Although, I do remember absolutely loving Marmee. Little Women is my favorite book and hearing the story through the matriarch’s tender recollections was just lovely.

Also, if you haven’t read Olivia Atwater yet, make that a goal for next year. Longshadow has been my favorite read of hers so far, but they are all so comforting and cozy.

Goodreads Goal: 377/400 (this is a silly number - do not attempt this)

2022 Reads

#2022 reads #book reviews #book recommendations #books #booklr #bookish #reading #bibliophile

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bookclub4m · 4 years ago

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30 books by Indigenous authors published in the past 5 years

Since 2020, we’ve been sharing lists of books by authors of colour for every new genre we read - and with our non-genre episodes, sharing lists for the genres we covered in our early episodes. The early episode we’re creating a booklist for this month is Episode 009: Aboriginal / Indigenous / First Nations. Our booklist for this episode features works by Indigenous authors that have been published since that episode came out in 2016. All of the lists can be found here.

Fiction

Bawaajigan: Stories of Power edited by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

Indians on Vacation by Thomas King

There There by Tommy Orange

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Non-Fiction

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph

In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott

Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel

From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for A Stronger Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould

Young Adult

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

Strangers by David Alexander Robertson

Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Picture Books

Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim by Brenda J. Child, Jonathan Thunder, and Gordon Jourdain

You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel

Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock by Dallas Hunt and Amanda Strong

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal

Poetry

NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway

From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx

it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Comics

This Place: 150 Years Retold

Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls

Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan

Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette and Scott B. Henderson

Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

#indigenous #first nations #booklists

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sasha4books · 11 months ago

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List of All my 2023 Reads

[ ] The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

[ ] Penguins Love Color by Sarah Aspinall

[ ] The Bugabees: Friends With Food Allergies by Amy Recob

[ ] A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon

[ ] Stop Monkeying Around by Christine Swift, et. al.

[ ] Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly, et. al.

[ ] The Potty Book for Girls by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, et. al.

[ ] Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss

[ ] Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds, et. al.

[ ] Creepy Pair of Underwear! Aaron Reynolds, et. al

[ ] Creepy Crayon! by Aaron Reynolds, et. al

[ ] Nickelodeon Blue's Clues & You Learning Series by Phidal Publishing

[ ] Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall, et. al.

[ ] The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[ ] A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

[ ] The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson, et. al.

[ ] Stay Out of the Basement by R. L. Stine

[ ] Stuck on Murder by Lucy Lawrence

[ ] Barbie Dolls by Nathan Sommer

[ ] Welcome to Dead House by R. L. Stine

[ ] What Is The Constitution? by Patricia Brennan Demuth, et. al.

[ ] Barbie My First Pony by Mona Miller, et. al.

[ ] The Black Queen by Jumata Emill

[ ] The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

[ ] Stinetinglers by R. L. Stine

[ ] A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 by Kathryn Lasky

[ ] Stuart Little by E. B. White

[ ] Monster Blood by R. L. Stine

[ ] Make a TikTok Every Day: 365 Prompts for Attention-Grabbing TikTok by Dave Jorgensen

[ ] Richard Scarry's Best Little Word Book Ever!

[ ] Obeying the Law by Kirsten Chang

[ ] Shrek! by William Steig

[ ] The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh (1-4) by A. A. Milne

[ ] Last But Not Leashed by Eileen Brady

[ ] Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

[ ] The House on Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne

[ ] Police Station by Amy McDonald

[ ] What a Desi Girl Wants by Sabina Khan

[ ] The Great Patty Caper by Erica David

[ ] The Amazing SpongeBobini by Steve Banks

[ ] What Were the Twin Towers? by Jim O'Connor

[ ] A Christmas Candy Killer by Christina Romeril

[ ] The Supermarket Mystery by Richard Scarry

[ ] Postman Pig and His Busy Neighbors by Richard Scarry

[ ] How to Catch a Witch by Alice Walstead

[ ] Monsters Unmasked! (Scooby-Doo) by Nicole Johnson

[ ] Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

[ ] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

[ ] The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P.D.James

[ ] Hooked in Murder by Betty Hechtman

[ ] Here Comes the Body by Maria DiRico

[ ] The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson

[ ] Gossip Girl (#1) by Cecily von Ziegesar

[ ] The Great Banned Books Bake Sale by Aya Khalil et al.

[ ] How to Catch Santa Claus by Alice Walstead

[ ] Indigo and Ida by Heather Murphy Capps

[ ] The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

[ ] Killer Christmas by John Hall

[ ] Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

[ ] Queen Bee by Amalie Howard

[ ] The Between by Tananarive Due

[ ] James and Giant Peach by Roald Dahl et al

[ ] This Book is Banned by Raj Haldar

[ ] Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

[ ] The Nutcracker: The Original Holiday Classic by E. T. A. Hoffmann

[ ] The Christmas Murder Games by Alexandra Benedict

[ ] Kismat Connection by Ananya Devarajan

[ ] The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

[ ] The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

[ ] The Chocolate Sundae Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner

[ ] Finding My Dance by Ria Thundercloud et al

[ ] Halloween Cupckaes Murder by Carlene O' Connor et al

[ ] Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie et al.

[ ] Slime Doesn't Pay by R. L. Stine

[ ] Drive Thru by Erica David

[ ] The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict by Trenton Lee Stewart

[ ] Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard

[ ] What Was the Underground Railroad? by Yona Zeldis McDonough et al

[ ] Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

[ ] Peppa Loves to Bake by Eone

[ ] Where Do We Go From Here : Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr

[ ] The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

[ ] Halloween at Creepy Castle by Alison Inches et al

[ ] The Christmas Story: Experience the magic of the first Christmas by D. K. Publishing

[ ] ABCs of Kindness at Christmas by Patricia Hegarty et al

[ ] Apple and Pumpkin: The Battle for the Best Fall Treat Is On! by Jeffery Burton

[ ] Winter: A Solstice Story by Kelsey E. Gross et al

[ ] What was the Holocaust? by Gail Herman et al

[ ] Barbie in a Christmas Carol by Mary Man-Kong

[ ] Franklin's Christmas Gift by Paulette Bourgeois et al

[ ] Unicorn Christmas by Diana Murray et al

[ ] Dino-Christmas by Lisa Wheeler et al

[ ] NPR: The First Forty Years

[ ] A Nancy Drew Christmas by Carolyn Keene

[ ] The Christmas Swap by Talia Samuels

[ ] History Smashers: Christopher Columbus and the Taino People by Kate Messner et al

[ ] The Teacher March! by Sandra Neil Wallace

[ ] Christmas Is Here! by Charles M. Schulz

[ ] Mermaid Day by Diana Murray et al

[ ] Four Found Dead by Natalie D. Richards

[ ] Love In Winter Wonderland by Abiola Bello

[ ] The Picture House Murders by Fiona Veitch Smith

[ ] Plankton's Christmas Surprise! by John Cabell et al

[ ] Dashing Through the Snow by Debbie Macomber

[ ] History Smashers: The Mayflower by Kate Messner

[ ] Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

[ ] Miles and Miles of Reptiles by Tish Rabe et al

[ ] Christmas in Camelot by Mary Pope Osborne

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Books Read in August 2022

Rereads

Henry and the Paper Route/Beverly Cleary (Henry Huggins #4) (mg realistic fiction)-Henry really, really wants a paper route. He’s not old enough for it so he decides to prove that he’s responsible enough, anyway.

The Importance of Being Earnest/Oscar Wilde (humorous romance play)-It all starts when Earnest forgets his cigarette holder at his friend’s, Algernon’s, house and a few lies come out...

Moving Pictures/Terry Pratchett (Discworld #10) (humorous fantasy)-The alchemists have discovered how to make a ‘moving picture’ and it’s taking the Discworld by storm. Now they just have to make sure that nothing else gets out from behind the big, mysterious doors buried in the sand to take the Discworld by storm, too.

Wild Traveler/A.M. Lightner (mg dog story)-Randy and his parents pick up a stray dog all alone in the Nevada desert. Back in the East he accidentally escapes. He also happens to be a coyote and not a dog.

4.5 Stars

Roller Girl/Victoria Jamieson (mg realistic fiction graphic novel)-Astrid is going to go to roller derby camp with her best friend! Or so she thinks. It turns out her best friend wants to go to ballet camp with Astrid’s worst enemy leaving Astrid to deal with roller derby camp alone.

Watercress/Andrea Chang and Jason Chin (picture book partial-memoir, partial-fiction)-A young girl hates that her parents pick watercress from the side of the road until she listens to their story.

4 Stars

Fry Bread/Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal (culture/food based Native American picture book)-A family makes fry bread.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret/Brian Selznick (mg illustrated/graphic historical fiction)-After his father dies and his uncle disappears Hugo is left alone in the walls of the Paris metro station, repairing the clocks and a mysterious automaton his father left him.

3.5 Stars

An Enchantment of Ravens/Margaret Rogerson (ya fae based romance fantasy)-Isobel makes her living by painting portraits of the Fair Folk. When she puts human emotion in the portrait of the prince of the autumn court he kidnaps her in order to bring her to trial.

To the Future, Ben Franklin!/Mary Pope Osborne and A.G. Ford (Magic Tree House #32) (children’s fantasy time travel)-Jack and Annie have to find Ben Franklin and convince him to sign a very important document-one that the United States cannot exist with out. But they’re not sure they can do it..

The Woman in the Library/Sulari Gentil (adult literary murder mystery)-An author and her beta reader correspond over the book she’s writing, wherein a woman is murdered in a library and the four suspects all have iron-clad alibis: they were all sitting in the Reading Room when she died.

3 Stars

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine/Gail Honeyman (adult realistic fiction)-Eleanor Oliphant does her job and talks to her mother once a week and mostly just tries to avoid people and do her crosswords. On the way home from work one day she and her coworker bump into an old man who faints. This changes the trajectory of her life.

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices/ed. Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington (adult Arthuriana retellings/explorations anthology)-Short stories that explore the Arthurian legends from the 5th century to the 19th to the 22nd.

2.5 Stars

Epically Earnest/Molly Horan (ya romance)-Janey’s friend Algernon stole her spit. Not in a creepy way: in order to send it to a dna test because she’s adopted. A relative comes up. She has to decide whether she wants to meet this relative while also figuring out how to ask her crush out.

2 Stars

Tomorrow I’ll Be Kind/Jessica Hische (didactic picture book)-Small animals show how they’re kind, grateful, etc. in with fun illustrations.

1.5 Stars

The Midnight Library/Matt Haig (adult didactic sci fi)-A woman who resorts to suicide is given a chance to live many different lives based on changing her choices until she finds one she loves.

Pixels of You/Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota and J.R. Doyle (new adult sci fi ai comic)-When a human girl and an ai girl with an internship in a photography gallery fight the curator of the gallery makes them do a piece together.

#wrap-up #rtm #read this month #august 2022 #august #2022

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