Books We Read – December
Happy New Year! Snow days pre-empted some mid-month work and the holiday trumped the rest of the year! So the December list of reading is fashionably late. I wish I could say the same for the reviews … they’re backed up again.
As you’ll quickly see we enjoyed quite a few holiday books last month. We hope you did, too.
Received: 16 (8 Cybils nominee) ….. New Reads: 25 ….. New Reviews: 0
Please use these category headings to “jump” to your favorite children’s and young adult book categories. We hope this makes the monthly list (and our annual list pages) more enjoyable for you … not to mention a little more manageable to browse.
- Favorite Re-Reads (Kid Picks)
- Audio Books & Nontraditional Reading
- Bilingual Books
- Picture Books (all ages)
- Easy Readers (for new and developing readers)
- Early and Illustrated Chapter Books
- Middle Grade Chapter Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)
- Young Adult Chapter Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)
- New & Updated Reviews of Books on Earlier Lists
If you’ve read any of these books, we’d love to link to them so readers can learn more about them! Just click “Our Book Talk” to add your link to our website review (via Mr. Linky) or just paste the URL into a comment and I’ll do the rest.
Favorite Re-Reads (Kid Picks)
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Audio Books & Nontraditional Reading
None this month
Bilingual Books (All Audience)
A Sweater for Duncan / Un sueter para Duncan
written by Margaret Gay Malone, illustrated by Lorraine Dey (Raven Tree Press, 2010)
Picture Books (All Audiences)
Baby Santa by M. Maitland deLand; illustrated by Phil Wilson (Greenleaf Book Group, 2010)
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The Secret of St. Nicholas by Ellen Nibali; illustrated by Lon Eric Craven (Fairand Books, 2010)
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Easy Readers (for new and developing readers)
*C* Alien Alby (I Am Reading) by Kaye Umanski; Sophie Rohrbach (Kingfisher, 2010)
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*C* Yeti Spaghetti (I am Reading) by Samantha Hay; illustrated by Mark Beech (Kingfisher, 2010)
Early and Illustrated Chapter Books
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*C* The Littlest Wrangler by J.R. Sanders, illustrated by Vin Labassi (Moonlight Mesa Associates)
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*C* The Middle Sheep by Francis Watts (William B. Eerdmans, 2010)
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Middle Grade Chapter Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)
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Rune Warriors: Ship of the Dead by James Jennewein and Tom S. Parker (Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins, 2011)
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Young Adult Chapter Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)
New & Updated Reviews of Books on Earlier Lists