-
Join 894 other subscribers
- Follow alibrarymama on WordPress.com
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Tags
- #OwnVoices
- #ReadDiverse2017
- Adult Nonfiction
- adventure
- African-American
- Armchair Cybils
- Asian-American
- audiobooks
- award winners
- bibliography
- book-review
- book reviews
- books
- contemporary fantasy
- cooking
- Cybils
- diversity
- dragons
- Early Chapter Books
- fairy tales
- Fantasy
- fiction
- graphic novels
- historical fantasy
- historical fiction
- humor
- knitting
- Latino/a
- Latinx
- LGBTQ
- mr. fp
- multiculturalism
- Mystery
- mythology
- parenting
- picture books
- pirates
- reading
- Romance
- science fiction
- steampunk
- teen
- teen fantasy
- teen fiction
- teen science fiction
- Top Ten Tuesday
- youth fantasy
- youth fiction
- youth graphic novels
- youth science fiction
-
Top Posts
-
© Katy Kramp and alibrarymama.com, 2004-2024. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Katy Kramp and alibrarymama.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Category Archives: Uncategorized
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
Gone to Amerikay
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
How to Eat a Cupcake
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
Rabbit Ears
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
Where Things Come Back
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
The Great Piratical Rumbustification
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
The Piper’s Son
“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
All the Money in the World
All the Money in the World: What the Happiest People Know about Getting and Spending by Laura Vanderkam. We’re told that money can’t buy happiness – but really, we all know that it can, Vanderkam (168 Hours) says. Instead of … Continue reading
Jinx: Little Jinx Grows Up
I was so excited to get a review copy that I had to post a review here, even if I was sent the review copy in order to purchase it for the library, which I can’t do, because it’s clearly … Continue reading
alibrarymama 