#kids book review | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

bookishmomsstuff · 2 years

Text

Review of why we walk

My review This is my second ebook from the very cute author Siena. Absolutely love the way she’s been doing this. I enjoyed reading this as an individual and as a parent to my kids. This book is based on bringing awareness to kids on why we walk so that it causes no harm to planet earth and how we do not contribute to the global warming by choosing not to take the vehicles that send out…

View On WordPress

#global warming #kids book review #kids who read #kidswholovetoread #picture book #Rachel&039;s random resources #rararesources #Shannon Willvers #Siena #why we walk

0 notes

annasellheim · 2 months

Text

I have been working on a book for the last three years. It was going to be published by two separate publishers that have since gone out of business. I was told it was too "weird" for any other publisher to be picked up, but was a story worth sharing. I was told to Kickstart it, but that would take more refining, and I'm fucking sick of this book.

So I'll be posting the whole thing on here in piecemeal. YOU'RE WELCOME!!!!

Here's the pitch letter:

Brittle by Anna Sellheim 159 pages Black and white

Logline:

After a lifetime of trying to ignore physical pain and emotional trauma by avoiding human connection, Anna takes a chance on her first romantic relationship at the age of 29. Will therapy and her love of art help her make meaningful and lasting relationships?

Synopsis:

Anna is an artist who desperately craves connection and seeks validation. However, early childhood trauma and an isolating bone disease have led to a lifetime of anger, depression, an eating disorder, and an overwhelming fear of rejection. When Anna takes a chance on her first romantic relationship at the age of 29, she goes to therapy to make sure she doesn’t blow it. Will therapy and her practice as an artist help Anna make the connections she has wanted her whole life?

Audience

The audience for this book would be those interested in graphic memoir, graphic medicine, exploring childhood trauma, chronic pain, people with uncommon genetic diseases, disability narratives, and those interested in whether connecting to your inner child is actually helpful. This book would also appeal to fans of Tessa Brunton’s Notes From A Sickbed, Lynda Barry’s 100 Demons, and Keiler Roberts’ Miseryland.

Bio

Anna Sellheim is originally from Washington DC. She earned her MFA in comics from the Center For Cartoon Studies in 2016. She has been published by the Nib, Oni Press and Seven Days. She also has contributed to a number of anthologies, most notably Dirty Diamonds and Comics For Choice. She has taught adult literacy in DC and has taught art and comic classes throughout the DMV Area and New England. She now works at the Refugee Youth Program, where she teaches art and comics to refugee youths ages 5-21 throughout Baltimore. Her work primarily deals with mental health, trauma, and the healing power of art.

79 notes · View notes

jackxo · 29 days

Text

When my siblings have kids, I’m going to give them so many books.

20 notes · View notes

evansbby · 3 months

Text

yall I read this book when I was like 12-13 and it was a “sweet valley high senior year” book and yesterday I found it again and reread the whole thing in 3 hours and honestly??? THIS BOOK IS WILD LIKE IT SAYS FOR AGES 12+ BUT IT IS SOOOOOO WILD OMFG!!!

I kinda wanna do a review on it 😭😭😭 like I think I understand why I write fanfics the way I do… it’s bc I was reading these types of books when I was young lmfaooo

I would love to do a review on it here if anyone would be interested in reading? Like it would be a fun, full of pictures type review post where I summarise this wild af book YOU GUYS PLS WOULD U BE INTERESTED

#THIS SHIT WAS WILD WODJSKXKS #I MEAN FOR A KIDS BOOK LIKE WTF #THERE WAS SOOOO MUCH GOING ON #it was also….. well written??#I also used to read Mary Kate and Ashley books when I was young #like two of a kind and so little time and sweet 16 #but they are soooo tame compared to SWEET VALLEY HIGH SENIOR YEAR #like the boys are so toxic and the girls are bitches and OH MY GOD????#I wanna do a lil review on it would yall read????#please tell me you’d read it I’d love to do it! it would be with pics and really fun and interactive lil review post #sweet valley high

29 notes · View notes

aroaessidhe · 1 year

Photo

2022 reads // twitter thread

Every Bird A Prince

MG about a girl dealing with amatonormativity from her friends and mother, who are all obsessed with crushes and relationships

meanwhile the forest kingdom of birds she’s discovered have named her as their champion to save them & her town from anxiety-targeting frostfangs

#Every Bird A Prince #aroaessidhe 2022 reads #this is so so good perfect aro book for young readers #and also me an adult reader #aroace books #aromantic books #asexual books #all birds are princes. zero monarchy or gender just vibes #aphobia warning also #i would have liked a bit more of the bird kingdom tbh!!!! but like obv it’s more of a side fabulism thing #interesting that ppl are saying ‘kids aren’t all into crushes and kissing in elementary school; that’s too early’ growing up aroace i promis #you that when you’re aroace you notice this happening very early LMAO #(in reviews i mean)#having said that they easily could have been a little older

206 notes · View notes

superlinguo · 7 months

Text

Language Books for Kids: Highly Irregular, Arika Okrent & Sean O'Neill

English spelling, pronunciation and grammar have been fertile ground for Pop Ling books (up there with swearing), and it's a delight to see this often-covered topic in the hands of one of the best lingcomm writers.

This book grew out of Okrent & O'Neill's videos for Mental Floss that were made between 2015 and 2018, which featured Okrent's voice over O'Neill illustrating onto a whiteboard. The book covers similar terrain to the video series, but with a tighter focus.

The book takes a tone of playful exasperation that never gets too heavy-handed. There are five sections, each focusing on a different place we can lay 'blame' for the state of English; The barbarians (English's Germanic origins), the French, the printing press, the snobs, ourselves (a final catch-all section). As with the videos, each chapter is short and tightly focused. There are 40 chapters of around 5 pages each, with or or two of O'Neill's illustrative examples in each chapter. Chapters can be read consecutively, allowing the reader to build a larger picture of these five different pressures on English, or you can dip in at any point that takes your fancy.

With this focus, there is a lot of focus on writing system and historical processes, but different chapters also cover topics in morphology, syntax, semantics and idioms.

The framing of whimsical affront at the state of English never gets too heavy-handed, and Okrent's writing is a masterclass in the judicious deployment of both terminology and humour. I've used her videos in my undergraduate teaching, and plan to borrow some of her explanations (and jokes) in this book for future teaching.

I would use this as a gateway to Crystal's A Little Book of Language (review here), you can safely leave it with a keen middle grader who is flummoxed by spelling bees or asks questions about linguistic oddities, or enjoy reading the short chapters with them.

Get the book: Bookshop, Amazon [buying through these links provides financial support to Superlinguo]

See also: Linguistics Books for Kids - the Superlinguo list

#linguistics #language #book review #book #review #kids #kids books #Okrent #Crystal

38 notes · View notes

allthingsnerd01 · 7 months

Text

Just finished A Series of Unfortunate Events audiobooks! Let me just say that I wished I had read these when I had picked up the first three books 15 years ago. I felt that the way that the story was written was interesting and I genuinely wanted to know how Lemony Snicket was related/ associated with the Baudelaire’s.

I will say that as an adult, it was a little bit difficult to get through at times and I had to keep reminding myself that I was not the target audience. But with that in mind, I did enjoy the series. The schemes of Count Olaf, the brilliance of the three Baudelaire’s, and the mystery of the EYE and the VFD definitely kept me coming back for more. Again, I definitely think the thing that kept me going was the need to discover what was actually happening at the VFD and if/when the children were FINALLY going to have a piece of luck.

Although the story didn’t end the way that I wanted.. and I still felt like I had a lot of questions.. The 13 book series does a great job of leaving the reader wanting more. Perfect for kids and equally as entertaining for adults!

#book review #book blog #book rec #book #book reccs #a series of unfortunate events #violet baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #count olaf #lemony snicket #bookworm #kids books

45 notes · View notes

oracleofmadness · 5 months

Text

The perfect ya romance! So romantic, dynamic characters, funny and emotional all at once.

Riley is a die-hard theater kid. When her best friend and she takes her mom's car (without a driver's license) to go see Waitress traveling Broadway, she does not look forward to paying for her crimes when she gets caught. She has to work at her dad's game store for 8 weeks while also not participating in any theater activities. When her ex-boyfriend shows up to obnoxiously gloat at the shop, she accidentally blurts out that she is, in fact, in another relationship.... with Nathan, a gamer boy that she is not exactly on good terms with.

This had so many things I loved in it. The incorporation of the game shop feeling like a home away from home to the many that gather there for different reasons is something I can definitely relate to. Not to mention the undeniable charm of the two main characters. I thoroughly enjoyed every second of this read!

Out January 9, 2024!

Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!

40 notes · View notes

black-is-beautiful18 · 8 months

Text

Why do y’all want to read about teenagers having sex so much??? Cuz there are books with teenagers having sex but it is usually carefully done or it’s fade to black. Full on spice scenes should not be, and do not belong, in YA books. YA has always been for teenagers. It does not need to be changed. The age range is literally between the ages of like 12-18. I don’t know why ppl keep having to tell you degenerate freaks that but apparently they do. The characters being 18/19 doesn’t matter either cuz that is still a child. Period. Read an actual adult book. Erotica exists for a reason! Like I knew y’all were serious about asking that but to actually release promo art of two nude teenagers-I can’t even begin to grasp the insanity of it all. I honestly hope you freaks get hit. Cuz it’ll be 100% deserved. A bunch of you need to be put on a list. ASAP.

#young adult books #smut #please stop being weird #it was already pissing me off but now it’s getting out of hand #y’all already had book reviewers telling y’all to stop asking them that #what more of a hint do you need?#some of you need to be taken out back and REDACTED #books #let kids and teenagers have things #good lord #unique writes

26 notes · View notes

bandaiddd · 19 days

Text

Just Kids, Patti Smith 5/5 ☆

Some books change your life, resonate with you so deeply that you can’t imagine another book finding you in such a way. Luckily for me, I found that in Just Kids. It redirected me, inspired me, allowed me to rekindle lost passion and young rebellion I thought didn’t exist.

The life of Smith and Mapplethorpe is a necessary read for anyone who finds themselves in the musical poetry of the 60s and 70s.

#literature #books #dark acamedia #book review #just kids patti smith #just kids #patti smith #robert mapplethorpe

11 notes · View notes

admiralgiggles · 23 days

Text

I have a profound love for all things Degrassi. If you share that interest, then read this book.

#The Mother of All Degrassi #Linda Schuyler #nonfiction #biography #memoir #book review #book recommendations #books of tumblr #bookworm #bookish #bookzilla #books and reading #reading is fundamental #Kids of Degrassi Street #Degrassi Junior High #Degrassi High #Degrassi TNG #Degrassi Next Class #spring 2024

9 notes · View notes

elleventures · 1 year

Text

In honor of celebrating black history month, I thought it would be exciting to share one of my favorite children book written by brilliant black authors each week.

To start off the month, I would like to share the following book:

Your Name Is A Song • {Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow | 2020}

Your Name Is A Song is a 24-page picture book written by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow.

This book tells a story about a young girl who was frustrated with her teachers and peers because her name gets mispronounced and is often overlooked as different. As the little girl is feeling upset, her mother brightens her spirits by teaching her the beauty, history and the musicality of names from different cultures (African, Black-American, etc.) while walking home from the city.

Overall, my favorite thing about this book is reminding ourselves to celebrate our identities and where we came from; this story touches on other meaningful themes such as the importance of pronouncing and spelling names correctly (it creates a sense of belonging), celebrating culture and diversity, taking pride in identities, accepting other's differences, and self-love and worth. Another aspect that I liked about the story is how interactive it is; in the story, the author includes pronunciation of the different names mentioned in the books for the readers.

Lastly, the colorful artwork is beautifully illustrated by Luisa Uribe with the use of vibrant colors and cute images; this is illustrated with the use of pencil colors, making it look whimsical which peaks the interests of young children who are between 5 - 10 years old.

Comment down below if you have read this book! Let me know who your favorite author is!

117 notes · View notes

ramblngz-of-a-lunatic · 2 months

Text

12 notes · View notes

rosemarycrowley · 9 months

Text

You know when you reach the end of a book and you feel so many emotions you cannot even begin to make sense of? I want to lay down and be wrapped up in the words, i want to keep on feeling and feeling until i become one with the lines. i want to engrave James' letter into my very soul. I want to cradle Oliver's face in the palms of my hands and weep with him the loss of half his soul. I want to mourn the what was and the what could have been. I want to remember this feeling forever. I want to experience it again. I am grateful that i exist and that i can enjoy reading Shakespeare's plays and the works of those who enjoy reading Shakespeare's plays.

#if we were villains #oliver marks #james farrow #book review #shakespeare #theater kids #iwwv spoilers #iwwv aesthetic #iwwv review

27 notes · View notes

four2andnew · 4 months

Text

I shared this with my IRL peeps, but I'm gonna add on the fanfic stats here with my cult fellow fanfic enthusiasts

167 (Kindle) books, 9 DNFs, twenty-five 5 ⭐s, and my average rating for the year was a 3.6

I couldn't narrow it down to one fav book, so here's some categories:

Fav Fantasy (Romantasy): Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Tairn carries this series, I love him)

Fav Sports Romance: Icebreaker by Hannah Grace ("Shut up, Anastasia. You're not even half my warm-up weight" SIR!)

Fav Cowboy Romance: Heartless by Elsie Silver (Cade Eaton can spit on me any day of the week)

Fav Small Town Mystery (still a romance): Indigo Ridge by Devon Perry (literally could not put this one down)

Fav Dark/Mafia Romance: I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You by Amanda Jones (Thank god for unhinged men hopelessly in love with their women)

Fav Military Romance: Full Measures by Rebecca Yarros (the number of times I cried...)

Fav Arranged/Forced Marriage: Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'Connell (I love me some good ol' western romances and this one was just **chef's kiss**)

And last but not least - Fav WTF Romance: Rowe by Dylan Page (I've never been so attracted to cave men in my life)

And now for the fanfic stats

I have roughly 40 pages of AO3 history for the year 2023, assuming 20 fic per page, that's roughly 800 fanfics I visited this past year. Here are some of my favorites (that I read in 2023, not necessarily published in 2023):

Ultimate Fav fic: Quidditch is for Losers by @fizzyginfizz

Fav re-read: Come Stay for the Summer by @ashotofogdensoldfirewhiskey

Fav Jily fic: The Reckless Now by @mppmaraudergirl

Fav Series: Moments in Time by @seriouslysam8

(Also I posted 8 fics of my own for a total of 49,807 words)

#book recs #yes I doxxed myself #goodreads #year in review #fic rec list #favs list #i swear i have a job #I'm just a fast reader #and my kids are finally at an age where they're somewhat self sufficient

11 notes · View notes

capinejghafa · 3 months

Text

having to explain to someone the joys of reading after being in a slump for years... is my redemption arc lol

#mostly kidding or am i???#but i lowkey think i need to read some shitty books too as well as good books #like they can't all be winners #really wish people would treat bad books like bad books but you do you right (i see you 5 stars when it should be a 2 star review)#but relearning to just love reading 10/10 would rec :)#random #myra's reading adventures

14 notes · View notes