I hope no one minds if I toot my own horn here. If you’re in the mood for fantasy (and given today’s realities, who isn’t?) check out my review at latimes.com of Ursula Le Guin’s Voices, her veiled critique of the illiterate know-nothings who imperil our libraries. Except my normally fabulous editors wouldn’t let me call such morons "know-nothings" let …
REVIEW OF THE DAY
Blackbeard, The Pirate King
Our entree today is Chicken Spaghetti, with a special order of poetry dished out by Susan: J. Patrick Lewis’s Blackbeard, the Pirate King wins the award for longest subtitle: "Several Yarns Detailing the Legends, Myths, and Real-Life Adventures of History’s Most Notorious Seaman." A pirate fan’s delight, needless to say. My second-grader and I loved the swashbuckling art. Read the …
Review of the Day: Carrot Soup
While we wait for the nominations to close, the Cybils team brings you Reviews of the Day. We pluck a title from the nominations and give it a read. Today, Kelly Herold (Big A little a) reviews Carrot Soup, by John Segal. Carrot Soup is nominated in the Picture Book Fiction category. The hero of John Segal‘s Carrot Soup is …