Caldecott Challenge 2012

Sam, Bangs and Moonshine by Evaline Ness

By Myra GB May 10, 2012 7 Comments

I deliberately searched for this book in our libraries when I learned that it is one of the earliest winners of the Caldecott Medal and it features a girl protagonist which is perfect for our bimonthly theme Girl Power and Women’s Wiles.  What is Real? What is Moonshine? To say that I was intrigued by the title [...]

Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully

By Myra GB May 8, 2012 10 Comments

I must admit that I have fallen in love with Emily Arnold McCully. One of the reasons why we came up with bimonthly themes here in GatheringBooks is that it would allow us to expand our reading range and explore other authors, storytellers, book artists that we are not very familiar with. At the rate [...]

Blooms Around Life’s Edges: The Gardener by Sarah Stewart and Pictures by David Small

By Myra GB May 3, 2012 7 Comments

I have just recently posted a review of David Small’s book, Imogene’s Antlers for Perfect Picture Book Friday. I am happy to feature another ‘Small’ book, this time written by Sarah Stewart and pictures by David Small yet again for our bimonthly theme on Girl Power and Women’s Wiles. Letters from Lydia Grace: Missives from Far and Away. [...]

An April Round-Up: Reading Challenge Updates, Progressive Poetry, April AWB Winners and More…

By Myra GB May 1, 2012 7 Comments

It’s now the first of May in our part of the world, a holiday! Woohoo! I’m delighted to once again do our usual monthly round up just to check our progress and to sum up kidlitosphere/blogosphere events that we joined as of late. Let’s begin with April being National Poetry Month. We are reeling with [...]

Perfect Picture Book: Madeline

By Fats Suela March 17, 2012 22 Comments

Last week, Myra, Iphigene, and I had a discussion about participating in another blog meme. To add to our growing list of blog memes, we decided to take part in Perfect Picture Book Fridays hosted by Susanna Leonard Hill. We thought that, since we constantly post reviews of picture books, it would be great to [...]