WELCOME 2025!

Happy Year of the Snake! I learned a LOT about lion dancers this month and they are fascinating. Check out The Chinese New Year Helper or We Are Lion Dancers if you want to learn more about the traditions for Lunar New Year. Planning ahead, Stopping by Jungle on a Snowy Evening would be an excellent choice for poetry month in April. Bibsy Cross is a fun new beginning chapter book series! Though be forewarned - Bibsy is quite the handful!  A Sleepless Night and John the Skeleton were both Batchelder award winners (books originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States). A Sleepless Night is very funny and John the Skeleton is a poignant story about a retired classroom skeleton and the family that adopts him. I found them both on Hoopla if you have access to that platform. Never judge a book by its cover - but The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong has a beautiful cover AND it is a great fantasy story! If you are in the mood for a tear-jerker of a memoir, read the late Caleb Carr's story of his beloved cat, Masha, in My Beloved Monster.