3 stars I definitely did not know that The Pirate Pig and Ruffleclaw were two separate stories when I checked this audiobook out from the library. Not that it is a bad thing at all, but I spent the first half of The Pirate Pig waiting for Julie to meet someone named Ruffleclaw. It honestly…

2 stars This reads like a hilariously bad ghost story. I am such a wimp when it comes to scary stuff. I’m the person who thinks there’s a zombie in the closet and that something hairy is going to grab my foot when it hangs off the bed (other than my cat). I appreciate well-told…

2 stars   This will most certainly be a rant-y review so do with it what you may. It was so hard for me to get into this book. With the promise of unicorns, magic, and talking trees, I really thought I would enjoy this book. However, for most of the book, I really didn’t…

3 stars A nice story about some little monsters who go on an adventure into the human world. Funny illustrations. I loved the weird way the monsters interacted with the humans (“big people guy”, “booming people voice”). Silly and fun book. I also enjoyed the little bit about friendship at the end.

4 stars An adorable introduction to using your manners. This is a good book for young readers. With simple words and short sentences, it is a very good beginning book for children. I loved the humorous way of teaching manners. Also, the pictures are well-done with a variety of emotions expressed (happy, sad, mad). Many…

4 stars This is a nice, easy-to-read book. Set in pre-Once-ler times, the book goes through the Lorax’s world with simple rhymes and descriptions. The reader is exposed to the various animals that live around the truffula trees and learn about opposites at the same time.Growing up, The Lorax was my all-time favorite book (and…

5 stars I absolutely loved this book. I was hooked from the first page and with every paragraph it just got better and better.Going into it, I didn’t really know what to expect, but I am so glad I finally read this. It is a wonderful, spell-binding story filled with twists and turns. The characters…

4 stars I picked this book up at the Little Free Lending Library, because as someone who grew up in a small town in Wisconsin surrounded by farms and a bad high school football team, I thought I could find something to relate to in it. At first, I hated the book. I thought D.J.’s…

2 stars This book was okay. I have seen videos of a few of Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s poems and liked them so I couldn’t wait to read these. However, I think many of them work better as spoken poetry rather than in written form. The format of the poems were kind of weird and it was…

5 stars This is a phenomenal collection of essays.I loved it. I have only read one other book by Luiselli (Faces in the Crowd) and loved it as well. I would really like to read more by her. She has a very unique and imaginative way of describing things and expressing her insight into various…