by Deb Aronson | Jul 12, 2018 | Blog
This Makes Me So Happy! This review made me so happy because it begins with the premise I’ve always embraced; that the most interesting stories are not those of famous people but those people who fly under the radar but have had amazing lives. It begins like...
by Deb Aronson | Jul 11, 2018 | Blog
So Many Books, So Little Space A Song From Somewhere Else and Summer of Lost and Found This week I’m reviewing two middle-grade books that, while very different, both have supernatural elements to them. The first one, A Song from Somewhere Else, by A. F. Harrold, is...
by Deb Aronson | Jun 6, 2018 | Blog
Do We Need Sensitivity Readers? This morning I was studying picture books. I read one about Bill Pickett, an African-American cowboy who invented bulldogging, one about Joy Chen, another about a famous singer and civil rights activist, Miriam Makeba. In each case I...
by Deb Aronson | May 7, 2018 | Blog
Reviewing Middle Grade Books Recently I got the opportunity to begin reviewing middle grade books for my local paper, the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. I leaped at the chance, not for the fame or fortune, but because it dovetailed with my desire to read more middle...
by Deb Aronson | May 2, 2018 | Blog
How to Keep Going in the Dead of Winter, When You Mostly Want to Hibernate and Eat Chocolate Well, one of my new year’s resolutions was to write a blog every week. And so far, so good. It turns out I wrote six in January. And I felt good in January! I felt...
by Deb Aronson | Apr 16, 2018 | Blog
The Significance of Snowflake Bentley and the Power of Jealousy I have read a lot of books in my life. But Snowflake Bentley, by Jackie Briggs Martin, stands out in my mind because it was the first picture book biography I’d ever seen of someone who wasn’t already a...
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