Category: historical fiction

• Why Kids Need to Read What They Want

  

  In the most recent edition of Cover to Cover by K.T. Horning, there are no early childhood, middle grade, or ya distinctions in books for children. Encompassing fiction and nonfiction, the breakdown is: Picture books (including board books) Readers/Beginning Readers/Easy Readers Transitional books Chapter books That’s it. We have those formats, and within those formats, every genre is…

  Miss Julie

  July 14, 2016

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• Wolf Hollow review

  Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk Cross The Bad Seed with To Kill A Mockingbird and add a dash of Night of the Hunter, King Lear (“I would fain learn to lie,” says the Fool), and Rebecca (the first line of this book is just as haunting as “Last night I dreamt of Manderly again”), and…

  Miss Julie

  July 11, 2016

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• How Much Can A Picture Book Do?

  

  update 01/17/16: Scholastic is no longer distributing this title.  The picture book, as a form, has been around for years, and has contributed to literature some of its most stunning masterpieces, in terms of both text and illustration. No one can dare deny the genius of Sendak, Kraus, Keats, Williams, or Raschka. The picture book…

  Miss Julie

  January 16, 2016

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• Review: The Lions of Little Rock

  The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don’t cry at books. It’s happened only a couple of times. I’m much more likely to cry at television or movies, mostly because of the added manipulation of the music and cinematography. For a book to elicit such a reaction,…

  Miss Julie

  October 24, 2012

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• Tales of the Madman Underground: a love letter

  I fall in love with books the same way I fall in love with people– deeply, unabashedly and without any pretense of dignity. This post is a love letter, and like the gushing of any girl newly in love, it may ramble here and there, but I hope you’ll indulge me. One book that I…

  Miss Julie

  February 7, 2011

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• historic

  I have a guest post up over at Librarian by Day, about one of my favorite backlist/crossover titles, My Sister The Moon, by Sue Harrison. I got into Sue Harrison’s books after I read Jean Auel’s Clan of the Cave Bear/Earth’s Children series (which is FINALLY coming to an end in 2011, thank jeebus) and…

  Miss Julie

  November 19, 2010

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• Anna Maria’s Gift

  Anna Maria’s Gift by Jamie Shefelman, illustrated by Robert Papp. Summary from the book: In 1715 Italy, nine-year-old Anna Maria Lombardini arrives at a Venice orphanage with little but a special violin her father made for her, but when her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi, favors her over a fellow student, the beloved instrument winds up in…

  Miss Julie

  November 11, 2010

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