4 stars   This is actually a very good book adaptation of the Cars 3 movie. I am often disappointed with adaptations from movies because they have to be shortened so much and many times they don’t tell a story, they just introduce the characters or set up the story. This one perfectly sums up…

4 stars   This book is absolutely beautiful. I love the lyrical free-style writing. The imagery created in Copeland’s words is gorgeous. She invokes pictures of “a dreaming shooting star of a girl” and “wrap[ping] our hearts careful as ribbons on pointe shoes”. So beautiful. You can really envision what Copeland writes and it is…

2 stars This was an okay read. I think I was just too much in a rational mindset to enjoy this book. I can suspend my disbelief enough to accept that Stanley was flattened by a bulletin board while sleeping in the original book series. I can even pretend that you can send a flat…

3 stars A very amusing and entertaining read. This is the first Speed Bump & Slingshot Misadventure book I have read and I enjoyed it. I really liked the format of the book. It blends traditional block text with speech bubble dialogue. It is one step closer to full chapter books from Mo Willems books….

4 stars   Awesome, entertaining, rhyming book that goes through the alphabet and gives a description of a vehicle for each letter. I really liked that the book included well-known vehicles (car, fire truck, airplane) as well as lesser known ones (iceboat, dog sled, zeppelin). Very creative. I also like that the rhymes are set…

3 stars A good read for fans of superheroes. This book features members of the Justice League including Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Aquaman. They team up against Black Manta to save the day. Overall, a good action-packed read. The only problem I had with this book was the number of idioms and various…

1 star This book is just bad. For one thing, it has nothing to do with Halloween, despite the slightly punny title. In the book, Branch just lists some scary things (mostly things that tried to eat Poppy or succeeded in eating each other). There is no real story. Branch literally just tells you a…

3 stars A nice story about working together as a team and putting differences aside. I really liked how the majority of the characters in this book are female. It was also cool to see characters from other schools (Mongal, Blackfire, Bleez, Speed Queen, Artemiz). Great illustrations, fast paced storyline. This is a Step 3…

3 stars   A very funny book about a superhero named Wedgieman and a giant bunny. This is a very silly and humorous book in the same vein as Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants/Super Diaper Baby/Dogman. Wedgies and poop jokes galore. It has the same dumb humor as many of Pilkey’s series. Take the villain, whose…

2 stars This was an okay adaptation of My Little Pony: The Movie. I liked the graphic novel format, but adapting a full-length movie into a graphic novel is a difficult task, one that is not undertaken easily. For me, this adaptation just didn’t work. The dialogue was very choppy and the scenes jumped a…