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Good Dog, Aggie
Review By ANDREA ZOLLMAN In this latest installment of the “Aggie and Ben” series, Ben learns that Aggie does not listen well. After she chews his homework, he decides to send her to “Doggie school.”...
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Meet Mr. and Mrs. Green
Review By JESSICA ALMY I love Keith Baker’s Who Is the Beast? but had never read any of his other children’s books, so when I discovered he had written a series about two alligators, I eagerly sought...
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Toby the Pet Therapy Dog and His Hospital Friends
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Animals used for therapeutic services are seen all over the American landscape, but their presence in children’s literature is just now making its foray. After chronicling...
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Earth Day
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT In honor of Environmental Education week and to highlight Earth Day, Vegbooks is featuring books with environmental themes. More on EE Week here. “Save the Earth” reads a...
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Endangered Animals
Review By JESSICA ALMY, as part of our ongoing series celebrating Environmental Education Week “People and animals share the same earth. They have shared it for a long, long time.” So begins Faith...
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Fancy Nancy: Every Day is Earth Day
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Those familiar with the Fancy Nancy series know that Fancy Nancy is a girl with flair and enthusiasm. Although green is not her favorite color, she takes being green very...
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How Do Birds Find Their Way?
Review By JESSICA ALMY My kiddo’s kindergarten class has been focusing on nonfiction books lately, both reading and writing/illustrating books that make a detailed exploration of the science and...
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Tugg and Teeny
Review By JESSICA ALMY After falling in love with J. Patrick Lewis’ Swan Song, I was certain I would like his early reader Tugg and Teeny, published last year. It’s a sweet, short book of 1,100 words...
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Freda Stops a Bully & Happy, Healthy Ajay
Review By KRISTIN WALD Sometimes, with all the news articles and blog posts and television shows dealing with problems our kids have, we forget how to look at the issues from a child’s perspective. We...
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Penny and Her Song (and Other Books in the Series)
Review By HOMA WOODRUM We are big fans of Kevin Henkes’ books – I actually remember reading Chrysanthemum as a kid when it first came out in the early 1990s. I could relate to the little mouse who...
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You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Fables to Read Together
Review By KATRINA DONOVAN FLEMING This is the newest book in a series of fun and playful poems that children can read in pairs. The poems are arranged in three columns. Person A reads the left column,...
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You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together
Review By JENNIFER KALI My six-year-old daughter loves this book. It is a collection of short poems designed to be read by two people, each taking a turn to read one or two lines, indicated by...
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A Place to Start a Family: Poems about Creatures That Build
Review by KRISTIN WALD A PLACE TO START A FAMILY, by David Harrison, is a collection of 12 poems about animals and the homes they build. Separated into sections for builders underground, on land, in...
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Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle
Review by KRISTIN WALD After reading Cheryl Bardoe’s BEHOLD THE BEAUTIFUL DUNG BEETLE, you’ll have a newfound appreciation and admiration for the insects. The book, recently out in paperback, details...
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Stretch to the Sun: From a Tiny Sprout to the Tallest Tree in the World
STRETCH TO THE SUN, written by Carrie A. Pearson and illustrated by Susan Swan, follows the life span of a giant redwood tree. It is a gorgeous and informative story of nature’s cycles, both the...
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How Do Fairies Have Fun in the Sun?
The latest in Liza Gardner Walsh’s Fairy-themed picture books is HOW DO FAIRIES HAVE FUN IN THE SUN? is a joyful romp through warm weather activities that early readers will love. Following the same...
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Now You Know What You Eat
Maple Syrup, peanut butter and jelly, and vegetable soup are all included in Valorie Fisher’s new NOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU EAT. The eye-catching and bright 3D-style graphics are at once simple and...
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Future Engineer
FUTURE ENGINEER by Lori Alexander and illustrated by Allison Black is the second in the Future Baby Series. Like Future Astronaut, the board book juxtaposes grown-up engineers with babies playing to...
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The Unicorn Came to Dinner
THE UNICORN CAME TO DINNER by Lauren DeStefano is a story about change and how one girl deals with it…for a while. Like many children who have emotions that feel too big or powerful to deal with,...
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Already a Butterfly: A Meditation Story
ALREADY A BUTTERFLY by Julia Alvarez and Illustrated by Raúl Colón is a poignant reminder to (almost literally) stop and smell the roses. Mari is a beautiful butterfly who is always busy, anxious, and...
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