Ogre-essive in size and scope, this book tempts critics to wonder: is it really for kids?

Breathtaking illustrations whisk readers away to Mars, but off-target text crashes on impact. Parents be warned: there are no babysitters for children marooned in the Martian desert.

Two creators make it their dooty to highlight the beauty of the humble dung beetle.

<p>Losing her vision causes young Mafalda to lose friends, certain freedoms, and the stars in the sky. Even so, the darkness brings into sharp focus her unyielding resilience and creativity.</p>

<p>Within these pages, I encountered something I doubt I&#8217;ve seen in any other children&#8217;s book; something I never though I&#8217;d run across; something so shocking, I almost didn&#8217;t write this post.</p>

<p>With summer hiatus over, I&#8217;m back to blogging about great books or the transformative writing life. Today, I bring you a book that could either inject more delight to your Rick and Morty viewership&#8230;or halt humanity&#8217;s looming apocalypse.</p>

<p>Racial injustice persists when people turn a blind-eye or distance themselves from it by isolating it to some &#8220;other&#8221; community. This book removes that distance and helps readers view the issue through many perspectives. Don&#8217;t look away; keep bearing witness and remake the world anew.</p>

<p>Music is a unifying element. This book introduces young readers to the heritage of the hip-hop they love.</p>

<p>A totally misbehaving, naughty book perfect good kids.</p>

<p>This book is a must-read for parents new to homeschooling and college students new to online learning.</p>

<p>No library? No problem. I&#8217;m quarrying my own bookshelves for the choicest chops.</p>

<p>So what if the public library is closed due to COVID-19? I can quarry my bookshelves at home for some really solid quarryntine reading.</p>

<p>Another book quarried from my bookshelves while sheltering at home makes the essential &#8220;quarryntine reading list.&#8221;</p>

<p>Books quarried from my own bookshelves build a stable &#8220;quarryntine reading list.&#8221;</p>

<p>Among travel books, what makes a masterpiece? Sure, we love the writer who describes a location or culture in stunning, heart-flipping prose. But what debt of thanks and praise do we owe the yarner who completely transports us to places we will never ever get to visit in our lifetime? Take, for instance, outer space…&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2020/02/27/imagined-life-by-trefil-summers/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Imagi

<p>I’d love to recommend this book to all the world&#8217;s would-be Greta Thunbergs and passionate climate change fighters; however, I’ll most likely recommend it to writing coaches who are passionate about fighting writing change. </p>

<p>Repeat after me: W is for wren. M is for mnemonic. D is for Djibouti. This book is the worst alphabet book EVER&#8230;and it&#8217;s proud of it! Haldar, Raj and Chris Carpenter. P is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever. Illus. Maria Tina Beddia. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2018. Print. Genre: picture book (ABC)&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/10/02/p-is-for-pterodactyl/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text

<p>Language. It&#8217;s as slippery and fluid as gender. And some of us need poetry to grasp that. Charles, Jos. feeld. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2018. Print. Genre: poetry Summary: Jos Charles, trans editor and poet, recipient of the Poetry Foundation&#8217;s 2016 Ruth Lily &amp; Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Fellowship, crafts poetry in Chaucer&#8217;s English to simulate&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/09/11/feeld-by-jos-charles/">Conti

<p>When taught to love this Earth like a geologist, we appreciate and crave even the smell of rocks. Glassley, William. A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice. New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2018. Print. Genre: narrative nonfiction Summary: Two geologist colleagues invite Glassley on a return visit to&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/06/12/a-wilder-time-by-william-glassley/">Continue reading <span class="screen

<p>A pervasive color, temporal slip n’ slides, hop-scotching graphics, one voice to rule them all—everything you’ve ever loved in a Samuel Beckett play now in a graphic novel memoir! Bui, Thi. The Best We Could Do. New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2017. Print. Genre: graphic novel memoir Summary: A graduate school assignment turns into a decades-long&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/03/13/the-best-we-could-do/">Continue reading <span class="screen-rea