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The Otherwoods is LGBTQ acceptance in sheep-horror clothing. It’s not scary enough for the later, yet aims the book’s jacket at that audience.
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EidTale: An Eid al-Fitr Adventure continues the approachable excellence of the Abrams Trail Tale book series in a non-secular manner.
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Fantasy Sports 1: The Court of Souls is a large format graphic novel that ensnares manga, sports, action and humor readers all within its web.
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Dia de Disfraces is a charming illustrated book in Spanish about dressing up and being yourself, even when others aren’t with you.
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The Museum on the Moon is STEM based poetry that won’t put kids to sleep. It will make their minds think and eyes wonder about the possibilities.
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The Real Story is a sublime illustrated book that uses its intelligence and creativity to be funny, really laugh-out-loud funny for ages three and up. Youtube The original post on Daddy Mojo
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Episode 146: 10 Dogs adds up to a very clever and enjoying sibling that’s more than a counting book
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10 Dogs is a counting book in that it adds to 10 in various ways that will make kids laugh, smile, grin, and notice small details, with dogs.
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Tell Me About Space is the smart, STEM board book that you wanted to be read to you when you were two-years old.
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The Things We Miss is mglit that brings in just enough science-fiction to the genre before they realize that it’s realistic fiction that they’ll enjoy as much, if not more.
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Can You Catch Me? is a sublime example of less-is-more when it comes to making an illustrated book engaging and fun for ages 3-6.
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Above the Trenches is a graphic novel with dozens of characters, and country-spanning action, that manages to make people appreciate history.
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The Sinister Secrets of Singe is mglit that could’ve benefitted from more action, fewer tropes and a haircut before planning the series.
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Alterations is a graphic novel that humorously shows middle school and how its inhabitants view it and the world around them.
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Are You Big? is picture book fun and glory all about size and scale that will delight ages three and up with happy art and simple text.
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Scientist of Faith profiles 28 thinkers who changed the world for the better and lets you know just a snippet about their faith in various religions.
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This Little Engineer: A Think-and-do-Primer is a board book that makes crawlers through 2nd grade think, but also clears up the vague definition of “what is an engineer?”
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Quest Kids and the Dark Prophecy of Doug blends comic-style art and quickly-paced text for a mglit series that spans elementary and middle school.
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Our 14-year-old saw Bob Marley: One Love. What does a typical middle-school person think about the film? His thoughts might surprise you.
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The Bellwoods Game is mglit that pairs illustrations with a great heel and an urban ghost story that lives in every neighborhood for an age-appropriately scary and spooky time.
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Moomin and the Golden Leaf is a new story about sharing, moving on, accepting setbacks, and caring staring the classic character.
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Moomin and the Golden Leaf is a new story about sharing, moving on, accepting setbacks, and caring staring the classic character.
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Plague-Busters! Is an entry gate, heavily illustrated, entertaining chapter book with humor and science on the planet’s deadliest diseases.
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The Secret Society of Aunts & Uncles is the charming story about a club that teaches siblings of parents the ways of how to be cool to nieces and nephews.
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Schnozzer & Tatertoes: Shoot the Moon! establishes itself as one of the big dogs in elementary school graphic novels.
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Monsters Never Get Haircuts has the potential to be your pre-k kid’s favorite book. The art is awesome, the text is brief and the story is very funny.
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Episode 127: Big Ideas from History: A History of the World For You, active thinking kid smart history
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Big Ideas from History: A History of the World For You is the ultimate read-aloud book, if the audience can handle non-fiction and thinking
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Hooray for She, He, Ze and They! What Are Your Pronouns Today? Is a noble book whose target audience is too young for the social message.
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Sick! The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs is an engaging chapter graphic novel on how little things are a big deal to animals.
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Episode 124: Finn’s Little Fibs proves that less is more in this go-to illustrated book series
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Finn’s Little Fibs is an illustrated book by Tom Percival that uses detailed art, a classic feel and brief text to effortlessly teach a lesson via the book’s character.
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Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man novel that combines prose and any conceivable narrative caffeine to entertain readers.
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Episode 122: A Curious Collection of Dangerous Creatures, rabbit hole learning they don’t expect
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A Curious Collection of Dangerous Creatures: An Illustrated Encyclopedia is a fun, fresh take on the basics of some uncommon and cool critters.
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Outside Nowhere uses snappy, funny dialogue, a sense of wonder, mystery, and ultimately redemption in this mglit home run.
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Ludwig and the Rhinoceros is a great and timeless, illustrated book. Ludwig and the Rhinoceros is a child’s first primer on critical thought. Both of these statements can coexist.
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Episode 119: A Sky of Paper Stars, an imaginative graphic novel on grieving, death, and selfishness
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A Sky of Paper Stars is a graphic novel on death and grieving that manages to not be too heavy, concentrating on the support and love, but acknowledging the loss.
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How Old is a Whale? asks the question that every elementary kids poses, plus dozens of other age-related ones on animals of all sizes.
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Fungi Grow sounds like a rallying cry for a dude to get larger in the garden. In reality, it’s a STEM-based poetry book that melds lyricism, nature and entertainment.
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How It Happened! Gum is an infectious, hard-to-put-down non-fiction that sucks in ages 8-12 who think that they don’t like to read.
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Episode 115: Investigators: All Tide Up, the seventh in the series that shows no signs of age
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Investigators: All Tide Up is the seventh entry into this all-age graphic novel series that continues to deliver laughs and puns aplenty.
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Meet the Megafauna! uses great art and gatefolds to remind elementary ages that big creatures are cool, they don’t have to be dinosaurs and can have relatives among us today.
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Episode 113: Kin: Rooted in Hope, novel in verse poetry that’s more than the sum of its parts
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Kin: Rooted in Hope is poetry, a novel in verse experience that has non-fiction roots on various aspects of the human toll of slavery in America.
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Ten-Word Tiny Tales: To Inspire and Unsettle is a children’s book that lays kindling at the base of imagination for any age.
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Infested is the teen horror book that will make reluctant readers jump into the book pool and declare that everything is fine, with millions of roaches.
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100 Disasters That Shaped World History provides a surprisingly detailed look at natural and man-made disasters that changed the world.
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Molly and the Mutants is the second in the Far Flung Falls book series and cements itself as a go-to destination for mglit leisure reading.
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The Girl Who Heard the Music is a well-meaning non-fiction book with one story thread too many.
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The Big Fat High School Algebra 1 Workbook is an interactive, step-by-step look at how to master this math discipline for those that need help or really want to excel.
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Episode 106: Eerie Tales from the School of Screams, a brilliant macabre all-age graphic novel
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Eerie Tales from the School of Screams is an all-age graphic novel that doubles as all-age horror. It’s scary, whilst maintaining humor, heart and creativity.
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How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest?, a non-fiction travelogue for elementary ages that deals in extremes to the enjoyment of ages 8 and up
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A Dollar’s Grand Dream is an illustrated book that brings the silly but also cashes in on humor, a great story, and our natural curiosity about money.
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Episode 103: All Talk, a visceral graphic novel on gang culture and being a ‘good kid’ who dies too young.
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All Talk is a graphic novel for high school ages that unflinchingly looks at gangs, acting tough and the results that follow. The art will compel you to read it more than once.
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