http://www.best-childrens-books.com/children-s-books-blog.html The Best Children's Books Daily Blog is the place to find out what's new for parents and for authors at Best Children's Books - Find, Read or Write. en-us Children's Books Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:14:31 GMT Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:14:31 GMT best-childrens-books.com http://www.best-childrens-books.com/dimitrios-sokolakis.html Children's book reviewer Dimitrios Sokolakis is a Greek businessman with three daughters and, thus, an interest in children's books! Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:14:31 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/me-jane-goodall.html In Me...Jane, Patrick McDonnell weaves images and words to make Jane Goodall's future in Gombe with the chimps seem practically pre-ordained. This touching book Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:29:19 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/grandpa-green.html In Lane Smith's Grandpa Green, a boy introduces us to his great-grandfather by way of the grandfather's topiary garden and what the sculptures mean to him. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:34:21 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/mummy-math.html Cindy Neuschwander's Mummy Math: A Geometry Adventure features two kids who get locked in a pyramid trying to help their scientist parents find an ancient pharaoh. Using Geometry Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:46:00 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/mountain-meets-the-moon.html Minli is a young girl intent on improving her family's fortune in Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Review. Searching for the Old Man of the Moon Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:13:46 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/a-ball-for-daisy.html Chris Raschka's A Ball for Daisy is a wordless picture book telling the story of a dog whose prize red ball bursts. Kids will relate to both the joy and the sense of loss Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:45:10 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/circus-ship.html Inspired by the 1836 sinking of the Royal Tar, a ship filled with circus animals, in The Circus Ship author-illustrator Chris Van Dusen imagines a very wholesome outcome. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:33:25 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/personalized-childrens-books-by-kd-novelties.html KD Novelties We offer a large selection of personalized books, personalized music and personalized photo DVDs where your child is the star of all of Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:34:37 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/caldecott-award.html The new Caldecott Medal and Honor books were announced today. We haven't reviewed them YET, but we have the list! Order them from your library before everyone else does! Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:40:04 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/old-style-fairytalefantasy-illustration.html Alan's Visions My style is fairytale/fantasy, old school style. I work in both colour - watercolour and acrylic - and pen and ink, as well as pastel Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:51:56 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard.html Hiding in the library from bullies, Nita Callahan happens on the self-help book, So You Want to Be a Wizard. Taking the Wizard's Oath, she soon finds herself on a list of local wizards. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:35:52 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/best-christmas-pageant-ever.html A family of bullies in search of booty descends on the town church in Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:46:59 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/wimpy-kid-cabin-fever.html Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever (#6) features Greg Heffley trying to score points with Santa Claus. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:42:36 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/dogs-dont-bite-in-heaven.html This story by Tony and Brooklynn Langston is entitled The Dogs Don't Bite in Heaven. A father's story about what it's like in heaven Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:56:56 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/cautionary-tales-for-children.html Edward Gorey gives his visual spin on Hilaire Belloc's century-old Cautionary Tales for Children. Naughty kids Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:51:21 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/just-another-ordinary-day.html Just Another Ordinary Day might seem a rather boring story...until the pictures tell you who the characters really are! Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:20:11 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/trickster-tre.html Trickster Tre is an easy reader wriiten in rhyme. The story is about a red hed 6 year old boy who made false claims with his family. At the end of the Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:58:49 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/what-to-put-in-a-cover-letter-to-a-publisher.html Hi, I have been putting off sending any of my children's books for a long time now due to worrying too much about what to put in my cover letter. I've Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:47:11 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/maxs-breakfast.html Max deals with Ruby's insistence on his eating the 'right' way in Max's Breakfast, another great story from the Max and Ruby series. Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:56:29 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/some-things-are-scary.html Help your kid look at childhood fears with the wonderful Some Things Are Scary. Brilliantly illustrated by Jules Feiffer Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:50:55 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/illustration-basket.html My work is quite varied but is usually decorative and design oriented. I love to use bright vibrant colors and interesting patterns and textures to Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:11:51 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/look-say-books-for-beginning-readers.html Just Clownin' 'Round...in between breakfast duty, bus duty, and teaching. Self-publishing or print on demand? Self-pub, baby. And I demand quite a bit Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:00:36 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/pirates-and-princesses.html Ivy and Fletch are old friends who risk getting separated by preschool gender roles in Pirates and Princesses. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:46:41 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/charlie-hits-it-big.html Charlie is little Sophie's guinea pig in Charlie Hits It Big. With aspirations of being a star, Charlie heads to Hollywood. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:38:57 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/karen-nelson.html Children's book reviewer Karen Nelson is a stay at home mom who has worked in the medical field--with both people and animals! Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:33:43 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/writing-a-childrens-book-to-address-childhood-obesity.html A head full of ideas but an empty page in front of me! Hello all, Firstly, thank you in advance for taking the time to read this, it's very much appreciated. Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:27:27 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/the-world-of-childhood.html Hello, my name is Sergey Taranik and I have two sons. Now they both are grown up men, of course, and have their own families, but when they were children Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:03:09 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/parsley-rabbit.html Parsley Rabbit's Book about Books is just that: a child's introduction to the world of text (and pictures) between covers. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:00:03 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/children-s-books-blog.html#10-contests-for-self-published-authors This self-pub author was kind enough to share her list! Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:16:50 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/the-snowman.html In Raymond Briggs' wordless classic, The Snowman, a little boy spends an evening playing with a snowman he built himself. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:25:25 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/heart-n-soul-expressions-lueders-fine-arts-llc.html My name is Jennifer Lueders and I have two degrees in art, a B.A. in Studio Art and an M.F.A. in Printmaking and Drawing. I mostly use acrylic, watercolor, Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:41:58 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/peek-inside-the-cover.html When I do my Illustrations my main aim is to amuse children and also keep them curious about what is going on. I want to encourage children to have fun Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:55:01 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/african-american-childrens-bookstore.html Our African-American children's bookstore, powered by Amazon, offers the best in picture book and young adult reading. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:37:00 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/classic-kids-bookstore.html Our classic kids' bookstore features many of the books that have stood the test of time and your child should have access to! Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:27:36 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/weird-parents.html Audrey Wood's Weird Parents looks at the world from the perspective of a child who finds his parents embarrassing. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:36:42 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/turn-off-tv-excerpt.html This is an excerpt from How Tombo Learned to Turn Off the TV. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:59:12 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/mungo-dinosaur.html Two favorite boy things--dinosaurs and pirates--come together in Timothy Knapman's Mungo and the Dinosaur Island. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:30:23 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/wait-no-paint.html Why did the three little pigs leave home? Bruce Whatley tells us in his wacky Wait! No Paint! Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:28:46 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/terrible-plop.html The smallest rabbit is forced by a big brown bear to join him in solving the mystery of The Terrible Plop. Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:09:22 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/santa-trap.html Bradley Bartleby is a beastly boy who wants ALL the presents in Jonathan Emmett's The Santa Trap. If he can just catch Santa Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:30:51 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/susan-syddall.html Children's book reviewer Susan Syddall is a long-time teacher who now homeschools. She's also a children's book author. Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:55:40 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/animal-encyclopedia.html DK's First Animal Encyclopedia is typical of all the books in their First Reference Series: gorgeous. Close-up photography Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:42:21 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/klaras-new-world.html Jeanette Winter's Klara's New World details a fictional Swedish girl's 19th century immigration, with her family, to America. Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:37:29 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/three-names-of-me.html Mary Cummings' Three Names of Me features an ethnically Chinese girl adopted to America, working to reconcile her cultural heritage. Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:27:04 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/taste-of-bluegrass-dyann-j-callahan.html I have specialized in very detailed wildlife and fantasy art in a variety of mediums. The human form in sculpture or painting is another specialty from Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:57:46 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/the-hero-beowulf.html Eric Kimmel tackles the beginning of Beowulf in picture book form in The Hero Beowulf. Slaying the monster Grendel Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:45:58 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/going-from-big-print-run-to-pod.html Self-publishing, then POD I published my first book, Weezer the Sneezer Finds a Home, with a printer in Minnesota. I still have boxes of books in my den Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:18:15 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/measuring-growth.html This free children's story by Dale Emmert is entitled, Measuring Growth. A young girl admits she didn't Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:50:30 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/swimmy.html Leo Lionni's Swimmy is a little black fish whose family gets swallowed by a bad tuna. Finding a new school, brave Swimmy teaches them Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:22:29 GMT http://www.best-childrens-books.com/story-of-ferdinand.html Munro Leaf's classic The Story of Ferdinand features a pacifist bull picked to participate in a bullfight. Just sitting in the middle of the ring Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:21:57 GMT