Shhh! by Barroux is a rather adorable little nighttime story for kids that is meant to help them fall asleep at night. Supposedly. And I think, depending on how a parent chooses to read it to their little ones, it can do precisely that. But it is by no means my favorite bedtime book. In…

A cute, tiny bit over the top children's book to educate all our young ones about the purpose of the period, Periods Say Stop by Michael Dahl and illustrated by Chris Garbutt is an exceedingly cute and clever way to introduce children to grammar rules. As someone who intrinsically understood a lot of this and was never…

I'm always a little bit thrown when a children's book has a lot of text in it. And I think it's more that I don't expect it than that I have any issues with extensive writing, but at the same time I can tell instantaneously that books like this really just don't work well for the…

How Rude by Clare Hellen Welsh and Olivier Tallec is utterly adorable and a rather fun commentary on not thinking of those around you. Introducing Duck as he arrives at Dot's tea party, How Rude follows the pair as inconsiderate Duck proceeds to do just about everything to ruin the party without even trying. Though Dot does…

  "Oh, Google! Nuke me now." I mean, that's pretty much how I feel after finishing I Am the Storm by Tash McAdam, though I'll admit I'm being a tiny bit dramatic. But the problem is that I just couldn't take this book seriously. Following the stories of a young man called Sam with psionic abilities…

  "It's a wild swan, not a human being in bird form." When a swan flies through and breaks a window in her apartment, Mitzi's life turns entirely upside down. Much to her disbelief, the now injured swan that she has taken upon to nurse back to health turns out to be an enchanted princess…