Matthew Quick's Sorta Like a Rock Star Little Brown, 2010 In a reading month that included War and Peace and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, you can imagine that I was craving something a little lighter. Enter Amber Appleton and her loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy, in the pages of this
Mildred D. Taylor's The Gold Cadillac (1980) Illus. Michael Hays Dial Books for Young Readers, 1987 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976) won the Newbery in 1977 and it remains Mildred D. Taylor's best known novel. But the Logan family was actually introduced in her first novella, Song of the Trees
Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking (1945) Trans. Florence Lamborn Illus. Louis S. Glanzman NY: Viking Press, 1950 My copy of Pippi Longstocking is a bookclub edition, one of several that my mother ordered for me when I was a girl. What sets Pippi (and Rudyard Kipling's Kim) apart in this series, however, is the
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up Julia Eccleshare, Ed. Universe, 2009 This kind of reference makes you think about devoting an entire year to reading just children's books. When you see so many favourites discussed herein, you only want to reread them. And when you see
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up Julia Eccleshare, Ed. Universe, 2009 Chances are that you've already heard of the voluminous list of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (I've spent even more time starting at this list, thanks to the 1% Well-Read Challenge, which requires that
