Momo celebrating time to read

Have you ever stopped and thought about how important a book title can be?   Pictures of Hollis Woods is the perfect title for this book....

A few weeks ago I watched a video of a literary event in Boston featuring Kevin Henkes talking about his newest book The Year of Billy M...

At this time of year we start to review our library collection and "weed" out the older books that are beyond repair or have not ...

It really is a coincidence that this next book in my blog is also an old book.   The King of the Copper Mountains was first publis...

People sometimes ask me about old classic stories read during a childhood in the 1950s or 1960s. Do children today still read these books?...

There is nothing really simple about growing up, about exploring your identity, about friendships or about the way we sometimes misinterpr...

Poignant, moving, sad, honest, emotional - these are some of the words I would use to describe the verse novel Inside out and back again ....