Author Archives: Katy K.

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About Katy K.

I'm a librarian and book worm who believes that children and adults deserve great books to read.

The Gift of Dyslexia

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Katy K.

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 →

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Brain Gym

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Katy K.

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 →

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Saving Francesca

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Katy K.

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 →

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Unterzakhn

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Katy K.

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 →

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Gone to Amerikay

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Katy K.

Two graphic novels about the immigrant experience in New York City have just come into my hands (um, by me purchasing them for the library.) This is the first of them. Gone to Amerikay by Derek McCullough. Art by Colleen … Continue reading →

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How to Eat a Cupcake

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Katy K.

How to Eat a Cupcake by Meg Donohue. Annie Quintana grew up in the apartment over the garage of the grand St. Clair house in San Francisco. Her mother Lucia, straight from Ecuador, was nanny and baker to the St. … Continue reading →

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Rabbit Ears

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Katy K.

The boy and I had just finished listening to the harrowing tale told in Gregor and the Marks of Secret, so harrowing that I wasn’t up to listening to the next one right away. Meanwhile, the third Incorrigible Children of … Continue reading →

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Where Things Come Back

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Katy K.

I read this book because it won this year’s Printz Award for Young Adult Literature. Here I take a very small moment to note that the winners of all three of the ALA awards that I pay the most attention … Continue reading →

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The Great Piratical Rumbustification

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Katy K.

The Great Piratical Rumbustification. The Librarian and the Robbers. by Margaret Mahy. Pictures by Quentin Blake. Margaret Mahy is world-famous children’s author from New Zealand whom I have somehow never heard of before. I’m not quite sure how this book … Continue reading →

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The Piper’s Son

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Katy K.

“Do you have any books you listened to on the Odyssey Award committee that you think I would like?” I asked our teen librarian. She gave me this one. Had I read the back cover first, two years after the … Continue reading →

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