Children’s books are often didactic; teaching lessons in (hopefully) creative and entertaining ways.  I can recall, just off the top of my head, books about using the potty, or Everyone Poops, and even recently I reviewed The Kissing Hand, in which a youngster learns it is okay to leave the nest.  This teaching-lesson children’s book, Is Continue reading

This is it!  This is the next generation of children’s book classics. I am new to the world of Claude and his friend Sir Bobblysock (Oh how I love that name and character!), and I absolutely adored this book! From the humorously original silliness (he wears suntan lotion and whipped cream at the beach) to the many Continue reading

Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse is a gorgeously illustrated picture book. The artwork is so beautiful that I found that I sometimes just get lost, staring at the pictures. The story centers around a French mouse who one day discovered that he was all alone.  Al the other mice had abandoned him or had been Continue reading