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Savvy

Savvy by Ingrid Law Penguin; May 2008; 352 pp; $16.95 HC 978-0803733060 Core Audience: Readers 12+ and folks who love predicting award winners Strengths: Completely original from cover to cover and th… more →

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Savvy — 1 comment

kmclean wrote 1 year ago: Savvy by Ingrid Law Penguin; May 2008; 352 pp; $16.95 HC 978-0803733060 Core Audience: Readers 12+ a … more →

Tags: (12-18) Young Adult, 2008 - Spring, Gutsy Girls, Instant Classic, Quirky and Hard to Define

The Patron Saint of Butterflies

kmclean wrote 1 year ago: The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante Bloomsbury; April 2008; 304 pp; $16.95 HC 978-159 … more →

Tags: (12-18) Young Adult, Desert Island Candidates, Guaranteed to Keep Adults Up Late, Gutsy Girls, 2008 - Spring, cult, butterflies, YA Fiction

Agate (or What good is a picture book? Really good, as it turns out.) — 1 comment

kmclean wrote 1 year ago: Agate: What good is a moose? by Joy Morgan Dey, illustrated by Nikki Johnson Lake Superior Port Citi … more →

Tags: (3-8) Picture Books, 2007 Spring, Outstanding Design

Walt Disney's Cinderella, (or An Ode to Mary Blair) — 4 comments

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: Walt Disney’s Cinderella by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Mary Blair Disney Press; August 2007; 64 … more →

Tags: 2007 Fall, (3-8) Picture Books, Outstanding Design, Classics to Rediscover, All ages, Cool and Contemporary, Great Book Websites and Other Eye Candy, Author/Illustator Profiles, Great and graphic

Pink

kmclean wrote 2 years ago:   Pink by Nan Gregory, illustrated by Luc Melanson Groundwood; July 2007; 32 pp; $17.95 HC 978- … more →

Tags: (3-8) Picture Books, 2007 Fall, Gutsy Girls, Outstanding Design

Alabama Moon — 2 comments

kmclean wrote 2 years ago:   Alabama Moon by Watt Key Farrar, Straus & Giroux; September 2006; 304 pp; $16.00 HC 978-0 … more →

Tags: (7-12) Middle Grade, 2006 Fall, Award Winning, Boys will Love, Desert Island Candidates, Great to Read Aloud, Guaranteed to Keep Adults Up Late, Instant Classic

I'm the Biggest Thing in The Ocean — 4 comments

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry Penguin/Dial; May 2007; 32 pp; $16.99 HC 978-0803 … more →

Tags: 2007 Spring, (3-8) Picture Books, Outstanding Design, Boys will Love, Laugh-Out-Loud Funny

The Police Cloud

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: The Police Cloud by Christoph Neimann Random House/Schwartz & Wade; March 2007; 40pp; $15.99 HC … more →

Tags: (3-8) Picture Books, 2007 Spring, Boys will Love, Great to Read Aloud, Outstanding Design

17 Things i’m not allowed to do anymore

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: 17 Things i’m not allowed to do anymore by Jenny Offill & Nancy Carpenter Random House/Schwartz … more →

Tags: (3-8) Picture Books, 2007 Spring, All ages, Behaving Badly, Great to Read Aloud, Gutsy Girls, Laugh-Out-Loud Funny, Outstanding Design

Polo: The Runaway Book (and a Trendwatch digression into emerging graphic forms for childen) — 3 comments

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: Okay, I feel that I have been giving short shrift lately to picture books, which as a designer are o … more →

Tags: 2007 Spring, All ages, Cool and Contemporary, Outstanding Design, Quirky and Hard to Define, Trendwatch, Great Book Websites and Other Eye Candy, Wordless and Wonderful

Life As We Knew It Redux — 6 comments

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: Hello faithful readers. This review was actually the VERY FIRST review I posted to pixie stix, and I … more →

Tags: 2006 Fall, (12-18) Young Adult, Guaranteed to Keep Adults Up Late, Gutsy Girls, Boys will Love

Rainstorm

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: Rainstorm by Barbara Lehman Houghton Mifflin; April 2007; 32 pp; $16.00 HC 978-0618756391 Core Audie … more →

Tags: 2007 Spring, (3-8) Picture Books, Outstanding Design, Instant Classic, All ages, Wordless and Wonderful

Lemonade Mouth — 1 comment

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: Lemonade Mouth, by Mark Peter Hughes Delacorte; March 2007; 352 pp; $15.99 HC 978-0385904049 Core Au … more →

Tags: (12-18) Young Adult, 2007 Spring, Boys will Love, Gutsy Girls, Laugh-Out-Loud Funny

Tarde de invierno / Winter Afternoon

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: Tarde de invierno/Winter Afternoon by Jorge Elias Lujan, illustrated by Mandana Sadat Groundwood Boo … more →

Tags: (3-8) Picture Books, 2006 Fall, Outstanding Design

365 Penguins — 1 comment

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: 365 Penguins, by Jean-Luc Fromental, illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet Harry Abrams; November 2006; 48 p … more →

Tags: 2006 Fall, (3-8) Picture Books, Outstanding Design, Laugh-Out-Loud Funny, Cool and Contemporary

Celebrate Hanukkah

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: Celebrate Hanukkah, by Deborah Helligman National Geographic; October 2006; 32 pp.; $15.95 HC 079225 … more →

Tags: 2006 Fall, (3-8) Picture Books, Non-fiction Gems, Holidays and Celebrations

The Mysterious Benedict Society — 1 comment

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, illustrated by Carson Ellis Little, Brown … more →

Tags: 2007 Spring, (7-12) Middle Grade, Guaranteed to Keep Adults Up Late, Gutsy Girls, Boys will Love, Instant Classic

The (many) Adventures of Polo — 1 comment

kmclean wrote 2 years ago: The Adventures of Polo By Regis Faller Roaring Brook Press; April 2006; 80 pp; $16.95 format 1596431 … more →

Tags: 2006 Fall, (3-8) Picture Books, Outstanding Design, Desert Island Candidates, Boys will Love, All ages, Great Book Websites and Other Eye Candy, Wordless and Wonderful

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

kmclean wrote 3 years ago:   The Invention of Hugo Cabret By Brian Selznick Scholastic Press; March 2007; 544 pp.; $22.99 … more →

Tags: 2007 Spring, (7-12) Middle Grade, Outstanding Design, Guaranteed to Keep Adults Up Late, Boys will Love, All ages


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