Sunday, September 27, 2026

 AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER - 

BACK TO SCHOOL WITH SOME SPOOKY SEASON THROWN IN

Happy fall reading! It even is beginning to feel like fall after our miserably hot summer here in Texas. I have read a lot of picture books over the past two months - and a few of them were amazing!  Monkeypig is so cute and funny. So is Dragon Dog - the wizard's name alone is worth reading the book - especially out loud. Little Blue Truck: Lost and Found is a perfect fall read. And all the Narwhal and Jelly fans need to read This Book Is Seriously Silly. On the truly serious side, That You Are Here is No Small Thing is a must read. And I really enjoyed The Skeleton and the Cat. 

We listened to the first book in the Lincoln Lawyer series recently and now we are hooked on the TV adaptation - which, unsurprisingly, gets things a bit out of order. But it's still a great watch if you have Netflix. The Anna Pigeon series is also intriguing. And, of course, PBS has started the new season of Moonflower Murders and the Marlowe Murder Club.  Becks is a suspect? What is this madness?!

Monkeypig by Huw Aaron Rosie Gets Ready by Sergio Ruzzier Dragon Dog by Suzanne Lang Little Blue Truck Lost and Found by Alice Schertle Penelope Rex vs. the New Kid by Ryan T.  Higgins Cat's Halloween by Alison Murray This Book Is Seriously Silly! by Ben Clanton Searching for Wocks by Lucy Knisley Vida by Duncan Tonatiuh Who Ate Steve? by Susannah Lloyd The Cow in the Dark at Night by Jess Hannigan The Wise Pickle by Sarah Howden Lily-May's Joyful Day by John Schu  In This Classroom by Andrew Hacket Story Rug by Sophie Blackall Good Morning, Crayons by Drew Daywalt All the Ways We Learn by Chloe Ito Ward A Room with a View by Joanna Ho That You Are Here Is No Small Thing by Traci N. Todd  Today Is the Day by Chelsea Lin Wallace The Skeleton and the Cat by Brandon James Scott Millie Fleur's Pumpkin Problem by Christy Mandin  The Bats on the Bus by Alison Jackson How to Scare a Mouse and Bear by Ross Collins Bored Panda by Mike Bender 

 Cub and Bat by Will Hillenbrand     We Are All Ears by Jonathan Fenske    Cactus Home by Vikram Madan 

 Orris and Timble by Kate DiCamillo School for Woodland Creatures by Lauren Castillo Diplo Dinosaur Wants a Roarsome Friend by Swapna Haddow 

  Detective Stanley and The Green Thumbed Thief by Hannah Tunnicliffe Pumpkin and Beetle by Jannie Ho  Saphie the One-Eyed Cat Volume 1 by Joho One Mad Cat and the Missing Book by Vicky Fang  Good Boy by Andy Hirsch 


 The Gift of the Great Buffalo by Carole Lindstrom Houdini's Library by Barb Rosenstock Beatrix and Her Friends by Anne Lambelet 

 Rialto by Kate Milford Licorice by Kara LaReau 

 Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins Rising Thunder by Neal Shusterman  Finlay Donovan Crosses the Line by Elle Cosimano Sunrise by Téa Obreht The Traveling House: A Novel  The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke