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Kids Literati

kara — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:52:25 GMT

I want to let you all know about my children's book review blog called Kids Literati. I post reviews of my favorite kids books, classics from my childhood, the best of my kid's bookshelf, and new releases. Check it out and let me know what your favorite books are that I should review!

Kids Literati - Kidlit Book Blog
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Looking for another book

imontome — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:54:35 GMT

Once again I'm looking for another book, or rather a series of books, that I read a zillion years ago. It was about a Jewish family with 7 children, mostly girls, living in Brooklyn in the early 20th century. They covered a lot of Jewish tradition and were great family books and I would love to share them with my kids today, but I can't remember what the name of any of them were.

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AH HA! What have YOU found lately?

HPB — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:09:59 GMT

Greetings all!
Sorry to be ghost-y for so long. My computer pretty much rolled over and died just before the holidays, but a very cool friend gave us a new one!
I got some fantastic books for Christmas and just wanted to pass them along as suggestions:

The Knights of the Silver Dragon Series -
I met the author (Matt Forbeck) of the first book, Secret of the Spirit Keeper, at GenCon last year. He was very cool and the series is just too neat! Its the first series of Dungeons and Dragons Adventure books put out there as childrens/young readers' books. I can't reccomend them enough. The characters are wonderfully developed with issues many kids can relate to and the adventures are fantastic. I wish they'd been around when I was a young reader! (Maybe I'd be more into reading fantasy novels today!)

Abarat by Clive Barker-
I didn't know this was considered a young adult book. I saw Clive Barker in an interview on a DVD where he described this new series. He said he was supposed to be doing a series of erotica paintings for a show. Instead, all these characters started coming out. Then this world developed. Then he was like, "huh, I should write a book about this". I bring this one to the gym with me and read while I'm on the treadmill. I'm completely sucked in. The illustrations are really unique and fit with the tone of the book perfectly. I have the first two (I don't believe he's put more out, but its possible).

So those are the series I got from my wonderful hubby. What have you found lately? Have you read these? Share!

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Little Black Sambo

HPB — Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:37:26 GMT

I heard a discussion about this on NPR yesterday. I never read the story growing up, but an artist named Christopher Bing is re-illustrating it. He talked about it being one of his favorite stories growing up, but the program also talked about the racial stigma attached to the book. It aparantly one of the top 'challenged' books in the nation.
Here's a link to the NPR stuff on it: http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1567555.html
What do you all think? It sounds like an neat tale, but I can see that events in history have made it a sore subject.

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So What's Appropriate?

HPB — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:24:29 GMT

Ok.. don't know if anyone's going to join this tribe dealy, but I figured I'd start with a discussion question.
While in college I took a class on Young Adult Lit. It was fantastic and I loved everything we read, but I often asked myself "Would I want my 14-year-old reading about this?". Some of the books addressed issues like rape, molestation, damage to property, poverty, drugs, discrimination, etc. I believe these are issues that adolescents face and that talking about them is good, but what's appropriate for what young person? This could easily turn into a discussion on banning books, as well.
So what do you think?

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His Dark Materials

CheshireTigger — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 00:58:29 GMT

Hi All,

I'm new to this tribe. I love and collect children's and young adult books.

I recently read Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series and am curious if anyone else has and what you thought of them.

:) T

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Eragon

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:56:20 GMT

I'm two-thirds through this book, and have been disappointed so far. The plot seems trite and predictable, and the writing feels flat.

I've just learned that the author is eighteen-years-old - should I grade this book on a curve? Or, since it's been published in mass-market, should I judge the book equally against its peers?

Has anyone else read this?

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Russian Squirrel Children's book -

katforan — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:19:05 GMT

Any one know the title or author of a childrens book translated from Russian about a squirrel?

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I'm looking for a book

imontome — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 06:25:25 GMT

That I read as a kid in the early 70s. I can remember what it's about but not the title. It was a library book that I checked out over and over about two japanese dolls. The little girl they live with builds them an authentic japanese tea house with screens made with rice paper and tatami mats and makes them bed rolls to sleep in. And the story is told from the doll's perspective. The detail was wonderful and it was a great introduction to the culture. The title was the doll's names something with blossom or flower...
Does anyone know of a service that might be able to help me locate the title? Or does this book sound familiar? I really want to share it with 8 year old Emily. Just one more thing I hate about aging - things slip through the cracks of memory. Thanks!

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Holiday Books

HPB — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:51:59 GMT

Anyone have any favorite books about the holidays? I like "Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins" by Eric Kimmel. I'm not Jewish by heritage, but I have to admit that I love the traditions involved in Hanukkah. I do a unit every year with my class about the history of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. This story in particular is a little long to read in class and I was wondering if anyone had any others they really enjoyed, especially stories that teenagers could sit through.

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