Today’s books deliver wonderful stories that are nicely suited to reading aloud to young children or handing to sturdy young readers. They’re too long to qualify for my 100-pages-and down lists yet they are fairly short and their style and …
Tag: books for advanced young readers

a beautifully imagined fairy tale
Snow & Rose, written and illustrated by Emily Winfield Martin published in 2017 by Random House 205 pages This book is sooo beautiful. Just look at that cover. And the inside art by Emily Winfield Martin is just as creamily, …
a tigrish, a talking hedge, and a wonderful farm
I’ve just read a novel — new last year — coming to us from New Zealand, that tingles with magical fancy. Like a windchime chinging in the distance. Jasmine drifting on a breeze. Fizzy lemonade spritzing your nose as you …
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