Children's Book Reviews

Welcome to our children's book reviews section. Here you find highlights of book reviews including picture books and young adult novels. More reviews can be found on page 2 of the archives.

• 33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History
  by Tonya Bolden (Crown)
• A Hat Full of Sky
  by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
• Abhorsen
  by Garth Nix (Eos)
• Above the Veil (The Seventh Tower, #4)
  by Garth Nix (Scholastic)
• Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships
  by Eric Shanower (Image Comics)
• Age of Bronze: Sacrifice
  by Eric Shanower (Hungry Tiger Press)
• Albert the Bear
  by Nick Butterworth (HarperCollins)
• Alexander the Great: The Legend of a Warrior King
  by Peter Chrisp, Illustrations by Peter Dennis (DK Discoveries)
• The Amazing Pop-Up Pull-Out Mummy Book
  by David Hawcock (DK)
• The Angel Factory
  by Terence Blacker (Simon and Schuster)
• Animal Sense
  by Diane Ackerman, Illustrations by Peter Sis (Knopf)
• Antarctica's Frozen Chosen
  by Hazel Edwards (Lothian Books)
• Baby Faces Stroller Book
  (DK)
• Baby Food
  by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers (Arthur A. Levine Books)
• Basilisk
  by N.M. Browne (Bloomsbury)
• Before There Was Mozart, The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George
  by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Schwartz & Wade)
• Before We Were Free
  by Julia Alvarez (Knopf)
• Betsy Who Cried Wolf
  by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)
• Beyond the Deep Woods (The Edge Chronicles: Book 1)
  by Paul Stewart, Illustrations by Chris Riddell (David Fickling Books)
• Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
  by Joyce Carol Oates (HarperCollins)
• Big Time Olie
  by William Joyce (Laura Geringer Books)
• The Blue Djinn Of Babylon (Children of the Lamp)
  by P. B. Kerr (Orchard Books)
• The Blue Ribbon Day
  by Katie Couric, Illustrations by Marjorie Priceman (Doubleday Books)
• Bonaparte
  by Marsha Wilson Chall, Illustrations by Wendy Anderson Halperin (DK Ink)
• Boston Jane: Wilderness Days
  by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins)
• Boy and Bot
  by Ame Dyckman (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Butterflies in the Garden
  by Carol Lerner (HarperCollins)
• Calli Be Gold
  by Michele Weber Hurwitz (Wendy Lamb Books)
• The Castaway
  by James Stevenson (HarperCollins)
• Child X
  by Lee Weatherly (David Fickling Books)
• Children of the Lamp
  by P.B. Kerr (Scholastic)
• The Christmas Story, Gospel According to St. Luke
  by Julia Alvarez, Illustrations by James Bernadin (HarperCollins)
• City of the Beasts
  by Isabel Allende (HarperCollins)
• Clara Caterpillar
  by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Illustrations by Henry Cole (HarperCollins)
• Clovermead
  by David Randall (McElderry Books)
• Cold Feet
  by Cynthia DeFelice, Illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker (DK Ink)
• The Complete Chronicles of Narnia
  by C.S. Lewis, Illustrations by Pauline Baynes (HarperCollins)
• Coraline
  by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
• Critter Love
  by Kate Spohn (HarperFestival)

• Daisy-Head Mayzie
  by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
• Dancing (Sesame Street: Elmo's World)
  (Random House)
• The Dark Flight Down
  by Marcus Sedgwick (Wendy Lamb Books)
• Daughter of Venice
  by Donna Jo Napoli (Wendy Lamb Books)
• Desser the Best Ever Cat
  by Maggie Smith, Illustrations by desser.gif (Knopf)
• Destination: Space
  by Seymour Simon (HarperCollins)
• Dinosaurs A-to Z: The Ultimate Dinosaur Encyclopedia
  by Don Lessem, Illustrations by Jan Sovak (Scholastic)
• Dinosaurs Big and Small
  by Kathleen Weuidner Zoehfeld (HarperCollins)
• Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too?
  by Eric Carle (Harper Festival)
• Dog Days
  by Amanda Harvey (Doubleday)
• The Dorling Kindersley Book of Nursery Rhymes
  by Debi Gliori (DK)
• Dorling Kindersley's Children's Atlas
  (DK)
• Dragonspell
  by Donita K. Paul (Water Brook)
• Drawing (Sesame Street: Elmo's World)
  by Apple J. Jordan (editor) (Random House)
• The Drowsy Hours: Poems for Bedtime
  by Susan Pearson, Illustrations by Peter Malone (HarperCollins)
• Duck in the Truck
  by Jez Alborough (HarperCollins)
• An Edible Alphabet: 26 Reasons to Love the Farm
  by Carol Watterson, Illustrations by Michela Sorentino
• Emeril's There's a Chef in My Soup!
  by Emeril Lagasse, Illustrations by Charles Yuen (HarperCollins)
• Everyone's Noisy
  by Ed Vere (Orchard Books)
• Faerie Wars
  by Herbie Brennan (Bloomsbury)
• Fairy Realm: The Water Sprites
  by Emily Rodda (HarperCollins)
• Father Fox's Christmas Rhymes
  by Clyde Watson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Father Fox's Pennyrhymes
  by Clyde Watson, Illustrations by Wendy Watson (HarperCollins)
• FDR's Alphabet Soup: New Deal America 1932-1939
  by Tonya Bolden (Knopf)
• Fire and Hemlock
  by Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow Books)
• The Firebird
  by Jane Yolen, Illustrations by Vladimir Vagin (HarperCollins)
• First to Fly
  by Peter Busby, Paintings by David Craig (Crown Books)
• Fishing in the Air
  by Sharon Creech, Illustrations by Chris Raschka (HarperCollins)
• Flipped
  by Wendelin Van Draanen (Knopf)
• Frank O. Gehry: Outside In
  by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (DK Ink)
• Garden of Angels
  by Lurlene McDaniel (Delacorte Press)
• Gaspard on Vacation
  by Anne Gutman, Illustrations by Goerg Hallensleben (Knopf)
• Girl Coming in For a Landing
  by April Halprin Wayland (Knopf)
• Girl, 15, Charming But Insane
  by Sue Limb (Delacorte Press)
• Goddess of Yesterday
  by Caroline B. Cooney (Delacorte Press)
• Good Thing You're Not an Octopus
  by Julie Markes, Illustrations by Maggie Smith (HarperCollins)
• Grandpa's Overalls
  by Tony Crunk, Illustrations by Scott Nash (Orchard Books)
• Grave Matters
  by Patricia H. Rushford (Bethany House)
• A Great and Terrible Beauty
  by Libba Bray (Delacorte Press)
• The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 11)
  by Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins)
• Grim Tuesday
  by Garth Nix (Scholastic)
• Hansa: The True Story of an Asian Elephant Baby
  by Clare Hodgson Meeker, Illustrations by Linda Feltner (Sasquatch Books)
• Happy Birthday, Cupcake!
  by Terry Border (Philomel Books)
• Harry and the Poisonous Centipede's Big Adventure
  by Lunne Reid Banks, Illustrations by Tony Ross (Harper Trophy)
• Haunted
  by Meg Cabot (HarperCollins)
• Hawkes Harbor
  by S.E. Hinton (Tor)
• Here Comes Santa Claus
  by Gene Autry, Oakley Haldeman, Illustrations by Bruce Whatley (HarperCollins)
• Holly's Christmas Eve
  by Wendy Watson (HarperCollins)
• The Homeward Bounders
  by Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow Books)
• Hoot
  by Carl Hiassen (Knopf)
• How Little Lori Visited Times Square
  by Amos Vogel, Illustrations by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins)
• How Now, Brown Cow?
  by Alice Shertle (Browndeer)
• How to Clean Your Room in 10 Easy Steps
  by Jennifer LaRue Huget, Illustrations by Edward Koren (Schwartz & Wade)
• I Am a Skater: Young Dreamers
  by Jane Feldman (Random House)
• Ice Claw
  by David Gilman (Delacorte Press for Young Readers)
• I'll Be You and You Be Me
  by Ruth Krauss, Illustrations by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins)
• If High School is a Game, Here's How to Break the Rules
  by Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D. (Delacorte Press)
• The Impossible Journey
  by Gloria Whelan (HarperCollins)
• Inkheart
  by Cornelia Funke (The Chicken House)
• It's Hard to be Five: Learning How to Work With My Control Panel
  by Jamie Lee Curtis, Illustrations by Laura Cornell (Joanna Cotler Books)
• It's Milking Time
  by Phyllis Alsdurf (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• It's Simple, Said Simon
  by Mary Ann Hoberman, Illustrations by Meilo So (Knopf)
• Jim Henson, The Guy Who Played With Puppets
  by Kathleen Krull (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• Joe-Joe's First Flight
  by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, Illustrations by E.B. Lewis (Knopf)
• Junie B., First Grader (At Last!)
  by Barbara Park (Random House)
• Little Blue and Little Yellow
  by Leo Lionni (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• The Karate Way
  by Gary Hellman (Doubleday)
• Katie and the Sunflowers
  by James Mayhew (Orchard Books)
• The Kite Fighters
  by Linda Sue Park (Dell Yearling)
• Last Night I Dreamed of a Circus
  by Maya Gottfried, Paintings by Robert Rahway Zakanitch (Knopf)
• Laura Numeroff's 10-Step Guide to Living With Your Monster
  by Laura Numeroff, Illustrations by Nate Evans (HarperCollins)
• Lew Wallace: Boy Writer (Young Patriots Series)
  by Martha E. Schaaf, Illustrations by Cathy Morrison (Patria Press)
• Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception
  by Gary Paulsen (Wendy Lamb Books)
• Lisa's Airplane Trip
  by Anne Gutman, Illustrations by Goerg Hallensleben (Knopf)
• Little Bear's New Friend
  by Else Holmelund Minarik (HarperCollins)
• Lizzy's Do's and Don'ts
  by Jessica Harper, Illustrations by Lindsay Harper duPont (HarperCollins)
• Lord of the Nutcracker Men
  by Iain Lawrence (Delacorte Press)
• Mamba Point
  by Kurtis Scaletta (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• Masters of Disaster
  by Gary Paulson (Wendy Lamb Books)
• Maya Running
  by Anjali Banerjee (Wendy Lamb Books)
• The Merlin Conspiracy
  by Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow Books)
• The Monster Trap
  by Dean Morrissey (HarperCollins)
• Moses: The Long Road to Freedom
  by Ann Keay Beneduce, Illustrations by Gennady Spirin (Orchard Books)
• My First Jumbo Book of Things That Go
  by James Diaz, Melanie Gerth and Francesca Diaz (Scholastic)
• No Kiss for Grandpa
  by Harriet Ziefert, Illustrations by Emilie Boon (Orchard Books)
• No More Kissing
  by Emma Chichester Clark (Doubleday)
• Nutik & Amaroq Play Ball
  by Jean Craighead George, Illustrations by Ted Rand (HarperCollins)
• Nutik, The Wolf Pup
  by Jean Craighead George, Illustrations by Ted Rand (HarperCollins)
• Old Turtle
  by Douglas Wood, Illustrations by Cheng-Khee Chee (Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers)
• Once Upon a Time: Creative Writing For Kids
  by Annie Buckley and Cathy Law (Chronicle Books)
• One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
  by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
• Paddington Bear Goes to the Hospital
  by Michael Bond and Karen Jankel, Illustrations by R.W. Alley (HarperCollins)
• Pendragon: Black Water (Book 5)
  by D.J. MacHale (Aladdin)
• Pendragon: The Merchant of Death
  by D.J. MacHale (Aladdin Books)
• The Playmaker
  by J.B. Cheaney (Dell)
• Please Say Please: Penguin's Guide to Manners
  by Margery Cuyler (Scholastic)
• Quiver
  by Stephanie Spinner (Knopf)
• Remote Man
  by Elizabeth Honey (Knopf)
• The Rivers of Zadaa (Pendragon)
  by D.J. MacHale (Aladdin)
• Rock Steady: A Story of Noah's Ark
  by Sting, Illustrations by Hugh Whyte (HarperCollins)
• The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
  by Francesca Lia Block (HarperCollins)
• Ruby in Her Own Time
  by Johnathan Emmett, Illustrations by Rebecca Harry (Scholastic)
• Sammy and the Robots
  by Ian Whybrow, Illustrations by Adrian Reynolds (Orchard Books)
• Scholastic Atlas of the World
  (Scholastic)
• Seaglass Summer
  by Anjali Banerjee (Wendy Lamb Books)
• Second Fiddle
  by Rosanne Parry (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• The Secret of Castle Cant
  by K.P. Bath, Illustrations by David Christiana (Little, Brown)
• See You Soon Moon
  by Donna Conrad (Knopf)
• Seeker (Book 1 of The Noble Warriors)
  by William Nicholson (Harcourt)
• The Seventh Tower #2: Castle
  by Garth Nix, Illustrations by Steve Rawlings (Scholastic)
• The Seventh Tower #3: Aenir
  by Garth Nix, Illustrations by Steve Rawlings (Scholastic (Lucas Books))
• The Seventh Tower: Into Battle
  by Garth Nix (Scholastic)
• The Sick Day
  by Patricia MacLachlan, Illustrations by Jane Dyer (Doubleday)
• Simeon's Gift
  by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton, Illustrations by Gennady Spirin (HarperCollins)
• The Singer of All Songs
  by Kate Constable (Scholastic)
• Sir Thursday (The Keys to the Kingdom)
  by Garth Nix (Scholastic)
• Sleeping Beauty
  by Adele Geras, Illustrations by Christian Brimingham (Orchard Books)
• Small Avalanches and Other Stories
  by Joyce Carol Oates (HarperTempest)
• The Snarth Goes to School
  by Tessa Hert and Frank Sergi, Illustrations by Pietri Freeman (Brookfield Reader)
• Snow-Walker
  by Catherine Fisher (Eos)
• Sparks
  by Graham McNamee (Wendy Lamb Books)
• Star Girl
  by Jerry Spinelli (Knopf)
• Stormchaser (The Edge Chronicles: Book 2)
  by Paul Stewart, Illustrations by Chris Riddell (David Fickling Books)
• Storyteller
  by Patricia Reilly Giff (Wendy Lamb Books)
• Swear to Howdy
  by Wendelin Van Draanen (Knopf)
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  , Illustrations by Laura Blanken Merer (HarperCollins)
• Tales From Shakespeare
  by Tina Packer (Scholastic)
• Tending to Grace
  by Kimberly Newton Fusco (Knopf)
• Text Me: Everything You Need to Know About Text Messaging
  (Random House)
• The Big Golden Book of Dinosaurs
  by Dr. Robert T. Bakker (Big Golden Books)
• The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories
  by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
• The Bravest Woman in America
  by Marisa Moss (Tricycle Press)
• The Brothers Grimm
  by Jack Zipes (St. Martin's Press)
• The Cardturner
  by Louis Sachar (Delacorte Books)
• The Chamber of Five
  by Michael Harmon (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• The Falling Raindrop
  by Neil Johnson and Joel Chin (Tricycle Press)
• The Honeybee Man
  by Lela Nargi and Kyrsten Brooker (Schwartz & Wade)
• The Language of Flowers
  by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (Ballantine)
• The Lonely Book
  by Kate Bernheimer (Schwartz & Wade)
• The Other Goose
  by Judith Kerr (Harper Collins)
• The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
  by Ann Brashares (Delacorte Press)
• The Winged Cat: And Other Tales of Ancient Civilizations
  by Deborah Norse Lattimore (HarperTrophy)
• The Thief Lord
  by Cornelia Funke (The Chicken House)
• Thomas and the Dragon Queen
  by Shutta Crum (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• Thumbelina
  by Hans Christian Anderson and Brian Pinkney, Illustrations by Brian Pinkney (Greenwillow Books)
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
  , Illustrations by Lesley Harker (Scholastic)
• Two Little Trains
  by Margaret Wise Brown, Illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon (HarperCollins)
• The Violet Keystone (The Seventh Tower: #6)
  by Garth Nix (Scholastic)
• The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life With the Chimps
  by (Schwartz & Wade)
• The Wee, Free Men
  by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
• Where the Action Was
  by Penny Colman (Crown)
• Why Do I Have to Make My Bed?
  by Wade Bradford (Tricycle Press)
• The Winter Child
  by Wendy Froud & Terri Windling (Simon and Schuster)
• A Wizard Named Nell (The Keepers)
  by Jackie French Koller (Aladdin Books)
• The Wolves in the Walls
  by Neil Gaiman, Illustrations by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)
• You Read to Me and I'll Read to You
  by Janet Schulman (Knopf)
• Zipped
  by Laura and Tom McNeal (Knopf)
• Zoozical
  by Judy Sierra (Knopf Books for Young Readers)