Category Archives: Books

State of the Book Basket – April 2015

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Katy K.

Apologies for the silence, friends. Life has been more than usually crazy – fortunately, lots of good as well as some bad. And while this isn’t the place to share it all, I now know a lot more about the … Continue reading →

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Smek for President

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Katy K.

It took my son and I about two months to read this book aloud together – very good value for our entertainment dollar, even if means we’re starting on Jinx’s Fire a little later than we’d hoped. I am still … Continue reading →

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Three for Picture Book Monday

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Katy K.

My daughter has been requesting chapter books more and more often at bedtime of late – but here are three picture books we enjoyed recently. Have You Seen My Dragon? By Steve Light. Candlewick Press, 2014. A little boy looks … Continue reading →

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Enchantment Lake: Review and Giveaway

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Katy K.

Today I’m honored to be the last stop on the book tour for the upcoming book Enchantment Lake. Thanks to the publisher for an ebook review copy for me, and for three signed hard copies of the book to give away … Continue reading →

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Brown Girl Dreaming and The Crossover

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Katy K.

There are years when I feel entirely unexcited about the Newbery and Caldecott awards… and then there was this year, when I looked up all the winners and honor books and got everything into my hands as quickly as I … Continue reading →

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3 Cybils Nonfiction Finalists: Feathers: Not Just for Flying, Handle with Care, Chasing Cheetahs

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Katy K.

Time for more true confessions: as a child I was quite opposed to nonfiction books, and would even skip over nonfiction articles in Cricket, otherwise my favorite magazine. Then I had a son who will bring home nothing but nonfiction … Continue reading →

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Cybils Teen Spec Fic: The Living, Death Sworn, and Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Katy K.

Here’s the first half of the Cybils Teen Speculative Fiction finalists, with more to come. Three very different speculative fiction books, but all good solid choices. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A.S. King. Little, Brown 2014. Glory O’Brien, … Continue reading →

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I’ll Give You the Sun

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Katy K.

I picked this up, a finalist in the Cybils Realistic Fiction for Young Adults, even though I don’t do much realistic fiction these days, because I needed an audiobook right then, it was there, I’d just been talking up all … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Re-Read Fantasy Books from Childhood

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Katy K.

Once again, I’m ignoring the long list of reviews waiting to be written in favor of an interesting Top 10 Tuesday.  It’s hosted as always by the good folks at The Broke and the Bookish, and I was sucked into … Continue reading →

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2014 Cybils Graphic Novels for YA Finalists

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Katy K.

There were six finalists this year in the Cybils Graphic Novels for Young Adults category. One of them I’d already read – Shadow Hero, by Gene Luen Yang. Two of them I was unable to find through my local libraries; … Continue reading →

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