Reviews
Midwest Book Review - Big Boy 4014 and the Steam Team: The World's Largest Steam Engine Roars Back to Life!
Kids who love trains will relish the lively history, colorful illustrations by Adam Gustavson, and details of train restoration and recovery which follows how the Big Boys were not only part of the past, but are now part of present-day rail efforts… View →
Publishers Weekly - The Mouse Buffet: A Christmas Treat
Juxtaposed with the sure-to-pounce cat, scenes of the rodents—who look alternatingly euphoric and frantic—gobbling the kaleidoscope of goodies create a gentle suspense. And Ross Ferreri’s brief and bustling onomatopoeic outing serves up a sudden, surprise ending that’s delicious for all. View →
Midwest Book Review - Yasi and Mina’s Pomegranate Tree
This lovely story of friendship against all odds, life in Iran, and adapting a relationship to change evolves is delightfully absorbing and thought-provoking. View →
Donovan's Literary Services - The Bakers Dozen
[This] rhyming donut celebration is accompanied by a recipe and counting opportunities that read-aloud adults will find multifaceted fun, promising education and entertainment all bound into a delicious doughnut theme. View →
Midwest Book Review - When Night Comes Calling
From the night sky to animals that awaken and venture out only in the cover of darkness, Schumerth’s lovely lyrical rhyming story, enhanced by lovely illustrations by Sheryl Murray, brings this world of wonder to life in a manner that will attract read-aloud adults and young picture book View →
Midwest Book Review - OH DEER!
[This] story evolves into one of who is cleverer in a tale that gardeners will especially relate to, and which parents will enjoy reading to the very young, with its colorful confrontations and opportunities for dramatizing sounds. View →
Midwest Book Review - Brave Old Blue
Kids will enjoy the appealing illustrations by Christopher Thornock which expand and portray Blue’s new life. View →
Midwest Book Review - Goose Egg Island
Julia Richardson’s Goose Egg Island…receives especially colorful, eye-catching illustrations by Meneka Repka as it surveys the new home of Goose and Gander on a frozen pond leading to a small island ideal for nesting. View →
Donovan's Literary Services - No One Told Sandra Day O’Connor What to Do: The First Woman to Serve on the United States Supreme Court
The biography gives lively embellishment to O’Connor’s life and her ideas….The result will encourage many discussions among young people about women’s history, rights, and effectiveness. View →
Donovan's Literary Services - Big Boy 4014 and the Steam Team: The World’s Largest Steam Engine Roards Back to Life!
Big Boy 4014 and the Steam Team will reach a wide audience thanks to especially vivid connections between past and present train activity and history and the efforts of steam train preservationists to keep the engines running, all depicted in this wonderful exploration designed for… View →