Mostly Picture Book Cybils Finalists

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Katy K.

I’m realizing that the Cybils awards will be announced next week already, and I’d better try to catch up with my reviewing before then. Here’s one Easy Reader and three Picture Book finalists. I’ve not really been making an effort with the easy readers. I have one more picture book at home that I haven’t convinced my daughter to let me read her yet, one that I put in a purchase request for, and two that I’m just waiting to be returned. I think the kids who have them right now must love them so much the parents are willing to pay the fines, as both Sophie’s Squash and Open This Little Book are long overdue at this point.

Penny and Her MarblePenny and Her Marble by Kevin Henkes. Harper Collins Childrens, 2013.

My daughter has loved both of the other Penny books – Penny and Her Song and Penny and Her Doll. Naturally, I checked them out. Penny is a sweet little mouse whose dilemmas are resolved in a few short chapters. The length is such that my daughter was able to listen through them even at three, perfect for bridging between very easy readers and early chapter books. In this book, Penny is taking her doll for a short walk when she spots a beautiful blue marble in the neighbor’s grass. She takes it initially, but then feels intensely guilty. She spends all the next day and night torn between her desire to keep it and her desire to make things right again. It’s a problem that any child will understand, told perfectly sympathetically and with a happy ending.

count the monkeysCount the Monkeys by Mac Barnett. Illustrated by Kevin Cornell. Disney-Hyperion Books, 2013.

My daughter was thrilled when I brought this home for her – she’d seen it at school and fallen in love with it. This really is a counting book, but the monkeys are only on the cover and the final endpaper. First they’ve been scared away by a cobra, then mongooses frighten away the cobra, followed by mongooses, crocodiles, grizzly bears, bees, beekeepers, wolves, lumber jacks and more lumber jacks, and rhinoceroses with bagpipes. The brightly colored, cartoony illustrations add to the appeal of this very silly book. Honestly, I wasn’t sure that I found it so extraordinary personally, but the number of times I found the girl reading it to herself speaks highly in its favor.

JourneyJourney by Aaron Becker. Candlewick Press, 2013.

This is a wordless picture book. In general, I’d say that wordless picture books are challenging for adults to read aloud, but great for sparking conversations over the book and for encouraging narrative skills in children, the important ability to tell a story in the kid’s own words. This is possibly the most beautiful I’ve ever seen, a fantastical homage to Harold and the Purple Crayon. In the beginning, a girl in a beige world goes to each of her family members in turn, all absorbed in their own pursuits. Bored, she goes to her room and draws a door with her red crayon. It takes her to another, full-color world, through which she journeys by drawing things for herself with the red crayon – a boat to go down the river from the forest to the (steampunky) city, a balloon to carry her through the sky. She rescues a bird with long purple plumage, and eventually comes out a purple door, back to her own world where she meets a boy with a purple crayon. There are so many details that this is a book worth visiting over and over again, and one I’d love to own. No wonder it got a Caldecott Honor as well as being a Cybils finalist!

If You Want to See a WhaleIf You Want to See a Whale by Julie Fogliano. Illustrated by Erin Stead. Roaring Brook Press, 2013

Honestly, this was one, like How to that I thought would be too quiet for children to really enjoy. It is a quiet, personal kind of book, starting with its smaller than average size. A boy and a small bird start on a blank page, and the world around them gradually fills in as it talks about all the interesting things you will have to ignore if you want to notice a whale. The soft colors and gentle, poetic phrases celebrate the importance of stillness and taking time to notice things. Again, I was wrong – maybe I needed reminding that children need this, too. My daughter and I both loved it.

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The Chronicles of Narnia, 2 and 3

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Katy K.

Laurence KriegSo my father (pictured at left) corresponded with C.S. Lewis as a child, over a disagreement he and his mother (my grandmother) were having over which order the books should be read in, as well as other matters. My father remained a life-long fan, and I remember knowing the books well enough by second grade to know when my teacher was abridging the text in her classroom reading. As a result, I’ve been feeling a bit guilty for not reading them to my son earlier – I read The Magician’s Nephew to him last year, but decided that I should save my precious reading-aloud time with him for books that we can’t get on audio. Bonus, though – my daughter is much more interested in having this on in the car than most of the books he’s been listening to lately, partly because it’s not as scary and partly because there is a character with her name.

lionThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Chronicles of Narnia Book 2. by C.S. Lewis. Narrated by Michael York. Harper Children’s Audio, 1950, 1978.

Everyone knows the plot here, right? Four children in World War II England stumble through a wardrobe into a land of perpetual winter, held thus by a witch whose power they are prophesied to break. There is betrayal, adventure, magical animals, mythical fauns living very British-seeming lifestyles, a visit from Father Christmas, and of course, a retelling of the Christ story.

The awkward part for me is that I am no longer so orthodox in my personal theology as I was as a child, and I was unsure how I would feel going back to this. I know many adults who’ve found this particular series gone flat on them when they returned to it as adults. In this book, I felt that the theology fit in just fine for me. My son hadn’t recognized the story in this context, though he is familiar with it, and seemed to enjoy it both before and after me telling him about it.

What I noticed especially here was that C.S. Lewis, much more than most authors, seemed to be writing with reading aloud in mind. The narrator makes fairly frequent comments to the reader, which might seem out of place when reading silently, but which felt pretty natural (if still old-fashioned) to me as an adult aside to the child listener in the book. The chapters are mostly 15 minutes, which fit nicely into our car time, but also work very well for bedtime reading, and the pacing is beautiful. I was glad that the chunks mostly worked smoothly with our travel time, as the audio book is of the variety that very unhelpfully has tracks only once a chapter, and my car audio system doesn’t allow for fast-forwarding. Michael York does a perfectly passable, but not stellar, reading – but here I am spoiled rotten. My father, who read these books aloud to us nearly annually, is both a really great reader himself and based his accent in the readings on recordings of C.S. Lewis. I really wish that I could convince him to record them for us now! Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books that Require Hankies

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Katy K.

toptentuesday Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
These days, I tend to actively avoid books that will make me cry, unless somebody I know and trust puts the book in my hands and tells me I will love it so much that it will be worth the extra hanky laundry. (That’s why I haven’t read Code Name Verity yet, despite all the great things I’ve heard about it and my high school obsession with WWII resistor stories.) But really, the right sad book at the right time is an experience that makes me understand the Greeks and their love of tragedy better. Here, approximately in order by when I read them:

whereWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. It was second grade, and my teacher read this aloud. And then I read it to myself many more times.

Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery. Walter! Oh, my goodness!

Histories of King Kelson trilogy by Katherine Kurtz. King Kelson was an early book crush, who had one bride after another murdered or married away from him through treachery. I never quite got around to the letter I meant to write, offering myself as a fictional bride so the poor guy could have some sort of happy ending.

Kelson Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold. Not so tragic as the others, but a moving and mystical tale of a widow coming into her own.

Love that Dog by Sharon Creech. I found this in library school, and read it aloud to my love through the tears because it was just so beautiful.

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. Somehow I put this into my car’s CD player without reading the summary, knowing only it had won some awards. I need to be better prepared when going into a tearjerker, I tell you.

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. My colleague S- is one of the few people to whom I will listen when they tell me a book is worth the hankies. (the close office proximity might help.) I might be extra sensitive to stories of mothers having nursing problems.

The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta. OK, my now-retired colleague C- is another one I trust. She knows her way around audiobooks, as well as what I like, though this story of a family recovering – badly – from the death of a beloved uncle/brother three years earlier hit particularly hard.

RedshirtsThe Fault in our Stars by John Greene. This is on lots of lists, I know. What got me was not so much the expected sadness, but her relationship with her parents, early in the book.

Redshirts by John Scalzi. The book has a hilarious premise. It made me laugh for most of it. And right at the end, he twisted things just enough that there were actual tears in our eyes – both mine and my love’s.

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell. Another popular one – but it’s rare enough for me to have actual tears over books that it’s worth mentioning. It is beautiful, and broke my heart.

What are your favorite weepy books? And do you look for them or avoid them?

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Renegade Magic

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Katy K.

Renegade MagicRenegade Magic. Kat, Incorrigible Book 2. by Stephanie Burgis. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012.
Back to Kat in Regency-era England with more magical mayhem! This book opens as she’s sneaking off to the kitchen with her brother, Charles, for an illicit fencing lesson to blow off steam before her sister’s wedding.

In Kat, Incorrigible, Kat managed arrange for her eldest siste to be married to her own true love, instead of to a rich but cruel and much older man. Naturally, this came at the cost of bending some rules and stepping on quite a few toes.

Now, all of this catches up with her. The ill-tempered Lady Fotherington, one of the Guardians who has carried her grudge against Kat’s mother over into the present day, arranges for a very large scene to be made in the middle of Elissa’s wedding, by no other person than the mother of Mr. Carlyle, sister Angeline’s sweetheart. Kat’s resulting tantrum in the Hall of the Guardians results in her access to the Hall and the offer of magic lessons being revoked.

Now Stepmama has decided that the family should retreat to Bath to ride out this scandal. Angeline has a dangerous plan of her own to make Stepmama allow her to see Mr. Carlyle again. Kat finds both that the head of the Guardians – a man she’s been told by her advisor to avoid at all costs – is in Bath himself, of all places – and that the springs are filled with a dangerous wild magic.

Of course Kat can’t just let things slip – especially when her siblings are in danger – but what can she do when she’s not allowed to use magic herself and everyone thinks she’s telling stories to keep herself out of trouble? Especially when she’s being trailed by Cousin Lucy, who thinks that witchcraft is a charmingly romantic game!

Burgis brings early Bath to life with her descriptions of the places and rituals around this high society gathering-place, while Kat is the same irresistibly impetuous heroine I fell for in Kat, Incorrigible. This is such a fun, zingy series, one I’d recommend to fans of fantasy and Austen aged about ten and up.

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2013 Part 2 – Favorites

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Katy K.

This is my list. I could easily have put in another 20 or so books that I really loved, but this is trying to keep it manageable.
Did you enjoy any of these? And what were your favorites?

ShadowsShadows by Robin McKinley
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
One Bowl Baking by Yvonne Ruperti
Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis
The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe
The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook by Eleanor Davis
Cold SteelCold Steel by Kate Elliott
Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers
Golden Girl by Sarah Zettel
Jinx by Sage Blackwood
Tower of Treasure by Scott Chantler
Saffy’s Angel by Hilary McKay
The Raven BoysThe Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

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Lulu and the Duck in the Park

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Katy K.

Multicultural Children’s Book Day – part 2.
There are over a hundred bloggers participating with Multicultural Children’s Book Day – head on over and take a look at all the beautiful, rainbow books! mcbd-white

I’ve had this book on my radar since it first came out in the US – both because of my ongoing search for multicultural children’s books, and because I so loved McKay’s middle grade series that starts with Saffy’s Angel. But the chances of my son picking up a realistic fiction book with a bright pink cover were pretty slim, and I don’t so often read early chapter books for my own entertainment. I took this one home recently in the hopes that it might make a good introduction to chapter books for my four-year-old, animal-loving girl.

Lulu and the Duck in the ParkLulu and the Duck in the Park by Hilary McKay. Illustrated by Priscilla Lamont. First published in the UK by Scholastic Children’s Books, 2011. Published in the US by Albert Whitman & Co., 2012.

Lulu loves animals. Even more than being famous for jumping off swings at the highest point, Lulu is famous for all the animals she keeps at home.

Her teacher, on the other hand, does not like animals at all, and Lulu’s attempt to convert her by having her dog follow her to school backfires spectacularly: Mrs. Holiday threatens to give away the class guinea pig if any more animals are brought to school.

But when Lulu sees her favorite duck-from-the-park’s egg rolling into the path, about to crack, just as the class is walking back to school – she can’t help but scoop it up. And an egg isn’t an animal – right?

My own little girl seems not quite ready for this yet – she fell asleep partway through the first chapter, and seems quite attached to reading picture books at bedtime still. I won’t rush the chapter books, then – and my son was ready to listen to them when stuck driving in the car much sooner than he was ready to sit and listen to books without pictures at home – but I was so charmed with the start of this that I had to finish it for myself.

Wow, is it ever charming! It is short and simple, with lots of pictures, so it’s clearly aimed at the typical second- or third-grade reader. But McKay succeeds admirably at fleshing out Lulu and her best friend Mellie, as well as Mrs. Holiday – much more than I’ve typically seen in early chapter books. Lulu’s clearly led by her love for animals, which leads to some serious but age-appropriate thoughts about animals and when to adopt them.

“Just in case,” said Lulu, worrying, “I should quack to this egg. So it doesn’t get lonely.”

I still found myself laughing out loud at multiple scenes in the book. In this one, near the end, Mrs. Holiday is trying to convince another student, absorbed in pretending to be a vampire, to really work at stopping his nosebleed:

“Anyway, all good things come to an end. Bloodletting is over. This is now math.”

This might actually be an early chapter book series that I would read for myself. But my daughter will be old enough for it soon, and in the meantime, I’ve put the copy we’re currently reading on hold for another little girl who came into the library looking for early chapter books about animals.

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The Stories Julian Tells

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Katy K.

Monday, January 27 is Multicultural Children’s Book Day.mcbd-white
I was looking for shiny new multicultural books to review, and I have some at home.
This, though, is an old book. I read some of the stories from this book in Cricket Magazine as a child, and they stuck with me. Enough that I brought this home for my son and convinced him to read it even though realistic fiction is about the last thing he’d be likely to pick for himself.

The Stories Julian TellsThe Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron. Pantheon Books, 1981
This is a collection of short stories, all told from the point of view of young Julian. Julian is about 8, I think, and lives with his parents and his younger brother Huey. His father makes lemon pudding for their mother, but the boys eat it all before she gets home; he orders a catalog so they can plan their garden, and Julian makes up stories about what’s really in catalogs to tell Huey. Julian is a quirky kid who gets himself into scrapes with his story-telling imagination – classic fodder for children’s books – but what made this book stand out so strongly in my memory is the beautiful, poetic language. At the beginning of the first story, Julian describes his father:

“My father is a big man with wild black hair. When he laughs, the sun laughs in the windowpanes. When he thinks, you can almost see his thoughts sitting on all the tables and chairs. When he is angry, me and my little brother Huey shiver to the bottom of our shoes.”

Still in the first story, Julian’s father describes the pudding he will make:

“A wonderful pudding… it will taste like a whole raft of lemons. It will taste like a night on the sea.”

Friends, this line is so vivid that I remembered it from reading it more than 30 years ago. I remembered the cats that Julian tells Huey come out of the catalog to do the gardening, different colored cats to do all the different gardening jobs.

Even though my boy read it himself (and enjoyed it), I had to go back and reread it before I turned it back in. It’s even better than I’d remembered. Now I notice (on the happy side) that Julian’s dad is a really great dad. The beating and the whipping that he promises the boys when they eat all of their mother’s lemon pudding are not at all what they feared – but they do teach them, hands-on, the cost of that pudding. He even finds a way to save the day when Huey is completely crushed that live cats do not come out of their garden catalog.

There are several more books about Julian and Huey, which I plan to bring home one at a time now. It makes me sad is that this kind of book, a short chapter book featuring a loving middle class African-American family, is still so rare. (My son would here be lobbying for more multicultural epic fantasies.) I see this one pop up on lists of classics from time to time, but not nearly often enough. And yet – they are still in print, still so good that even my boy who prefers epic fantasy adventures or nonfiction read it all the way through and enjoyed it.

Here are some other multicultural favorites for a variety of ages:
Cinnamon Baby (picture book)
Alvin Ho (early chapter book series)
Astronaut Academy (middle grade graphic novel)
Jinx (middle grade fantasy)
The Girl of Fire and Thorns (teen fantasy)

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Astronaut Academy 1&2

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Katy K.

It’s Kid Lit Blog Hop Day, and folks who visit me mostly from there might think that youth graphic novels are all I read, because of how often they come up on Wednesdays. But there are always a lot of great kids’ books of every stripe, so go on over to the hop and take a look!

Kid Lit Blog Hop

As so often happens, Charlotte wrote a review that made me seriously track down some books I’d previously heard of but not read. I’d even met the author in person at our local Kids Read Comics event… so next time we go, I can tell him how much I loved his books! The second book in this series was nominated for a Cybils award this year, and I read both of them aloud with the boy.

zerogravityAstronaut Academy: Zero Gravity by Dave Roman. First Second, 2011.
Astronaut Academy is a boarding school in outer space (the students seem to be middle school aged), which is a fantastic premise to start with. Our main hero, Hakata Soy, is just starting at Astronaut Academy in the middle of term. The school’s most popular girl, Maribelle Mellonbelly, immediately falls for his cool, spiky hairdo – only to turn on him completely when he is befriended by her arch-rival, the sweet and nerdy Miyumi San.

The narrative rotates around a rather large cast of characters, but Roman keeps them all straight, giving them distinctive appearances and heading each chapter with the character’s name, as in “My name is Miyumi San and I go to… Astronaut Academy.” A larger picture emerges from this patchwork: Hakata Soy is a boy with a past, a past that involved being part of a superhero team he’s no longer in communication with, and rescuing a planet full of bunnies from the villainous bird-men. But his enemies have not forgotten him, and now a cybertronic duplicate of him is stalking the halls of Astronaut Academy.

I loved so much about this book, from the adorable pictures to the quirky setting, and especially including the language, which sounds like it was imperfectly translated. Here’s an example:

“Since you are unrecognizable to me, you must be the student who is SUPPOSED to be new here.”

I usually go through my own writing trying to avoid using the same word too many times in a row, but Roman uses homonyms multiple times in the same sentence to hilarious effect, as here:

“I know his name is Hakata Soy but not much else, because he has reserved the right to remain RESERVED… I won’t push the issue since teaching math is a higher calling than my casual interest in CHARACTER PROFILING.”

You can’t get much more diverse than the population of Astronaut Academy, which includes humans with lots of skin tones and names that range from European-sounding to Asian and Middle Eastern, but also includes elves and talking bunnies and pandas.

This is a fun boarding school adventure in space – so much kid appeal! – with underlying explorations of friendship. I dare you to resist it.

reentryAstronaut Academy: Re-Entry by Dave Roman. First Second, 2013.
Re-Entry begins with the end of the break that started at the close of Zero Gravity. Hakata has spent the break with Miyumi because no one came to take him home, and is inspired to try to make more friends at school by watching the normally quiet girl perform with her rock band.

Once back at Astronaut Academy, though, trouble starts again. In this world, people have multiple hearts, and normally exchange them with their closest loved ones. Exchanging hearts is fine, but now someone is going around Astronaut Academy convincing people to give up their hearts – and then eating them. Hakata’s roommate Tak is an early victim, now disbarred from playing on the school Fireball Team because he is down to one heart. He convinces Hakata to join the team in his stead, so they’ll still have a chance at the big game.

There’s also a strong element of mayhem, courtesy of Team Feety Pajamas, who now count Cybert, Takata’s double from the last book, as one of their number. When the heart-eating gets to be such a large problem that the administration has to do something about it, their first step is a ban on love. Miyumi is the first to rebel against the new rules, leading a team of students in figuring out another way to defeat the heart-stealing monster.

It’s more mayhem and adventure with a sweet center, in a series that my boy and I are both loving. We’ll definitely be keeping our eyes open for the next Astronaut Academy book!

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Winterling and Summerkin

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Katy K.

Still catching up with my December reading here… I’d been hearing about this one since it first came out, but it didn’t quite make it home until the sequel, Summerkin, was nominated for a Cybils award. I read through both of these in short order.

winterlingWinterling by Sarah Prineas. HarperCollins, 2012
Fer, short for Jennifer, lives with her grandmother, Grand-Jane. She’s always assumed that Grand-Jane was just being gently euphemistic when she told her that her parents “went away.” But as the story opens, things start to happen that make Fer question the little she’s been told about her family history.

This story is about Fer going through the Way she finds she can open in a nearby pond. Winter reigns in the Summerlands, and the Lady there says she needs Fer’s help to bring spring back. Even though the Lady is beautiful and seems trustworthy, Fer can feel the land, and it’s telling her that something is very wrong. She wants desperately for Rook, the Puck whose life she saved at the beginning and who took her to the Lady, to help her figure things out – but he keeps telling her he’s not her friend and can’t answer her questions. He isn’t, and he can’t, because he’s been oath-bound to the Lady against his will. Still, he is the only one of the Lady’s followers who knows the truth about her.

The reader learns fairly early on that Fer is the daughter of the murdered True Lady. The story is about Fer’s finding out, about her finding slowly her own way to take care of the Summerlands and its people without the too-tight binding oaths and bloodshed that the false Lady brought. There’s a lot of herbal healing along with archery chase scenes, and Fer’s being a vegetarian is important to the plot.

But while being a Lady might seem so close to being a princess that it would turn boys off, it’s never about pretty dresses and romance, and Rook is a very interesting character in his own right, getting nearly equal page time with Fer. I read and enjoyed this, and checked it out on audio for my son while we were waiting for the next Narnia book to come in at the library. He enjoyed it a great deal, although I found myself disagreeing with the narrator’s interpretation slightly more often than usual because I had just read it in print. It might have a few too many stock elements to be a Highly Original book that Everyone Must Read – but Prineas does nicely new things with her stock elements, turning into a satisfying mix of adventure with thoughtfulness, good for kids of all genders and adult fans of children’s fantasy.

summerkinSummerkin by Sarah Prineas. HarperCollins, 2013.
In Book 2, Fer is the Lady – but now the High Ones wish her to face off against other, pureblood contestants for the crown of the Summerlands. Once again, Fer finds that the way that feels right to her isn’t what everyone else seems to think is the right way, and kindness and loyalty win over greed and authoritarianism. (I’m simplifying grossly here.) Meanwhile, Rook’s puck brothers think that he’s looking too close to friends with someone who isn’t a puck, and set him a difficult task to prove his loyalty to them. I enjoyed this one very much as well, and have asked the youth librarian here to buy it on CD so my boy can listen to it as well.

Moonkind, the last book in the trilogy, is out this month (though still on order at my library), for those who like reading completed series best.

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Fortunately, the Milk

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Katy K.

The question of the day for work: will adults and teens come to the library to do Harry Potter crafts, or only younger kids? I have spent all morning looking into crafts that I would love to do, but not sure if other people would think they are as fun as I do. Would you come, or have you had luck getting people older than tweens in the library for Harry Potter stuff?

Anyway, back to books. This is one I read both because it was nominated for the Cybils and because it’s Neil Gaiman.

Fortunately, the Milk
Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Skottie Young.
Mom is traveling for work, and Dad is a bit scatterbrained, especially about groceries. One morning, they realize there is no milk to put on the cereal or in Dad’s coffee, so he sets out to the corner store for milk. Hours later, he comes back with the milk, and tells them the story of what took him so long. It involves kidnapping by aliens, riding in a balloon with a stegosaurus professor, “wumpires”, and cannibalistic cavemen – always with the bottle of milk being saved at the last minute.

The action is silly, and nonstop, and Skottie Young’s line drawings have the perfect made-up-on-the-spot quality to match the storytelling. (Young also did the art for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz graphic novel that we read last year.) It’s essentially one long tall tale. I thought it might be hard to read aloud because there aren’t really good stopping places and it is so exciting. It isn’t a perfect story for kids because all the two kids do is ask the occasional question and wonder if their dad isn’t really pulling their legs. That being said, it’s still a collaboration between two great artists. It’s a lot of fun, and very hard to put down.

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