The weekly post where I recap some of the KidLit books I’ve been reading. Ocasionally, I’ll also talk about some adult fiction books as well.

Be sure to check out Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers to see what other Kidlit readers are reading. Because, you know, we can never have too many books in our TBR piles.

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Giveaway Winner

Congrats to Linda Mitchell for winning a copy of Boomer at Your Service by Vanessa Keel and Adriana Hernandez Bergstrom! Contact me at rebecca.anne.herzog (at) gmail.com with your address and I’ll get that sent out right away!

Last Week on the Blog

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Just Finished

The library closest to me has been closed for the past month for renovations. So I recently paid a visit to another library in the county. I was so excited to find that they had a whole section of Halloween books! We do have inter-library loans, but the book has to be on my radar for me to even look it up. I was able to check out a few Halloween books that I hadn’t even heard of. This one is fantastic and I am so glad I found it. The rhyme is excellent and the illustrations are creepy, gorgeous, and fun. Below is a short excerpt so you can get a feel for the art and text.

We love little Escargot! my husband lived in the French speaking part of Belgium for a lot of his childhood and he is really good at doing accents, so it is always super fun for him to read these out loud. The illustrations are so adorable. The twist is so funny and cute as well. Definitely worth a reread.

This is the first Arnold and Louise book that I have read. My three-year-old like to help me cook, so he got a kick out of Arnold wanting to cook and the havoc that ensued. The illustrations are really fun and it made me wish I lived in a place that had the “fell” season.

The cover of this book caught my eye and the library and I am glad that I picked it up. It was super fun. I liked the cast of characters and the premise was a lot of fun. I liked how the main character had dyslexia and how he was able to find ways to navigate this while helping solve the puzzle to get his science fair project back. Plus there are skeleton rodents of unusual size–what’s not to like?

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Added to My TBR

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Julia’s House Moves On by Ben Hatke
A Cauldron of Bats by Michael Buxton
The Midnight Circus by Jane Yolen
Los Gatos Black on Halloween by Marisa Montes and Yuyi Morales
A Book for Escargot by Dashka Slater and Sydney Hanson
Happy Fell by Erica S. Perl and Chris Chatterton
My Video Game Ate My Homework by Dustin Hansen
Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon
Flamer by Mike Curato
Bling Blaine: Throw Glitter, Not Shade by Rob Sanders and Letizia Rizzo
Class Act by Jerry Craft