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Author Archives: Katy K.
The Books of Magic
Did you miss me last week? I was dealing with toddler tummy flu, mericfully mild on the external symptoms, but high on the clinginess scale. The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by John Bolton, Scott Hampton, Charles Vess … Continue reading
Giants Beware!
Giants Beware! by Rafael Rosado and Jorge Aguirre. Graphic novels aren’t my favorites for reading aloud, but I was so excited about this one that I read it aloud to my son. (I read about it on Charlotte’s Library as … Continue reading
The Scottish Prisoner
The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon. It must have been my very first year as a librarian, nearly ten years ago now, when a patron I was talking to put her hands on my shoulders, looked me in the eye, … Continue reading
Laundry Day
Laundry Day by Maurie J. Manning. Laundry Day falls somewhere between a graphic novel and a picture book, with a comic book-style layout of cells in a picture book size and target age. Our hero is a little shoeshine boy … Continue reading
The Microscope
I just counted. Right now, I have seven library books at home waiting to be read, six reviews waiting to be written, and six books on hold. I hope they won’t all come in at once, though the pile at … Continue reading
The Gift of Dyslexia
I have stacks of books waiting to be reviewed and even bigger stacks at home waiting to be read. Onwards! The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald D. Davis with Eldon M. Braun. This is the dyslexia theory that my son’s … Continue reading
Brain Gym
Brain Gym by Paul E. Dennison and Gail E. Dennison This book was recommended to us by a friend, who had great success with both of her children using the exercises in it. I had to have it sent via … Continue reading
Saving Francesca
It’s taking me a bit to get to reviewing this, but I made it through this whole book just on my breaks at work by the time I’d written up The Piper’s Son. Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta Life is … Continue reading
Unterzakhn
And now for another look at old New York, this time those parts inhabited by Jews. Unterzakhn by Leela Corman. “Unterzakhn” is Yiddish for “underthings”, which seems to refer both to our main characters, on the bottom end of the … Continue reading
