books4yourkids is on an indefinite hiatus, but there are over 2,750 reviews of children’s, young adult (and even a few adult) books to help you find the right book for the right hands. In 2008, while I was working as […]

  The New Friend  by Charlotte Zolotow illustrated by Benjamin Chaud Review Copy from Abrams Kids Charlotte Zolotow (1915 – 2013) was a writer, poet, editor and publisher. She had her own imprint at HarperCollins and the Cooperative Children’s Book […]

Every Little Kindness by Marta Bartolj Review Copy from Chronicle Books First published in Slovenia, Bartolj’s Every Little Kindness is a beautiful, wordless story that follows one small act of kindness as it ripples out into the community. Using graphic […]

  Melissa by Alex Gino Purchased from Barnes & Noble In September of 2015, I reviewed Gino’s debut book. A groundbreaking novel about a transgender child, the book went on to win the 2016 Stonewall Book Award in the newly […]

  Aaron Slater, Illustrator  by Andrea Beaty & David Roberts Review Copy from Abrams Kids With Aaron Slater, Illustrator, Beaty and Roberts add a fifth (and possibly my favorite…) title to their incredible series of picture books featuring protagonists who […]

 The Halloween Moon  by Joseph Fink Review Copy from Harper Collins A longtime fan of Welcome to Night Vale, a fiction podcast created by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor that started in 2012, I was excited to see what kind […]

The Beatryce Prophecy  by Kate DiCamillo illustrated by Sophie Blackall  Review Copy from Candlewick Books Set in "a time of war," The Beatryce Prophecy is a fable filled with characters who are bent, but not broken on their way to […]

  Thankful  by Elaine Vickers illustrated by Samantha Cotterill Review copy from Simon & Schuster Thankful follows a young girl as she begins her family’s annual tradition. When the first snow falls, she writes down the things she is thankful […]

  circle under berry  by Carter Higgins Review Copy from Chronicle Books Circle Under Berry is whats known as a concept book in that it teaches a concept like shapes, colors, ABCs, opposites, etc. With preposition rich text that goes beyond […]

See the Dog: Three Stories About a Cat  by David La Rochoelle illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka Review Copy from Candlewick Press The team that brought us the superlative picture book (and great social-emotional learning text) How to Apologize won the 2021 Theodore […]