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Jesica DeHart

Nov

27

2019

What Riley Wore written by Elana K. Arnold, illustrated by Linda Davick

Riley’s clothes are an expression of each day and the adventure that it invites. Personality celebrated and the comfort of a costume realized, Riley is Riley first and foremost. What I loved best of all about this book was that Riley’s gender didn’t even occur to me until nearing the end of this book devoid …

Aug

28

2019

The Very Short, Entirely True History of Unicorns

The Very Short, Entirely True History of Unicorns by Sarah Laskow and Sam Beck

This is a beguiling and concisely researched book on the elusive unicorn spotted, immortalized, and documented throughout history. There is so much in this book to ponder, love, and then be inspired to learn more about. –Jesica DeHart, Neill Public Library, Pullman, WA From Penguin kids’ rep, Colleen Conway: This first title in a new …

May

15

2019

Little Taco Truck

Little Taco Truck by Tanya Valentine and Jorge Martin

One little taco truck learns to share in marvelous new inclusive way that makes room for everyone. A book that acknowledges the challenges of change and the friendships that come with finding your community and where you belong. A bright book bursting with color and flavors with a much bigger message! –Jesica DeHart, Neill Public …

Oct

3

2018

Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters: The Questioneers #1

Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters: The Questioneers Book 1 by Andrea Beatty, illustrated by David Roberts

Sometimes you just fall in love with a book and everything it represents. Rosie Revere is back in an all-new chapter book series that might just be the best early chapter book series ever engineered! –Jesica DeHart, Neill Public Library, Pullman, WA This is a fun, well-illustrated early chapter book that encompasses all the zany …

Feb

6

2018

Heart Berries

Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Heart Berries achieves that most elusive and sacred goal of literature, to make us feel less alone in the world. With a beautiful and original voice, Mailhot applies the precision of the poet to her prose. Each sentence feels necessary, each paragraph vital, as she grapples with daughterhood, motherhood, sisterhood, wifehood, and finally, selfhood. Mailhot has …

Feb

8

2016

The Flood Girls

The Flood Girls by Richard Fifield

I should know better than to start a book with this much standing ovation worthy advanced praise at 9pm . . . Thus it is with the bleary eyes of a late night reader that I write this review. The intro by the author himself sets the scene of a narrative voice that is deeply …

Jan

28

2016

Tegan Tigani with Altas of Love at Wi11

Beloved by Booksellers: PNW Authors’ Backlist

This week, 600 booksellers gathered in Denver for the 11th annual Winter Institute, a 3-day educational conference for people who own or work in independent bookstores, hosted by the American Booksellers Association (ABA). The ABA started a new tradition on the opening night: a backlist book swap. “Backlist” titlesare books that have been around (the opposite of …

Dec

30

2015

Home by Carson Ellis

Home by Carson Ellis

Carson Ellis’s detailed, engaging, and enchanting illustrations alone make this book exquisite, but then her writing just becomes the cherry on top. I am instantly smitten with this book that takes us not only around the world but back and forth through time, all the while drawing the reader in closer and closer. This is …

May

7

2015

Island of Adventure

The Island of Adventure
by Enid Blyton

This beloved and highly requested British series first published in the 1940’s is back in print, and for those who love books from a timeless era of children’s writing this is for you. Children have fearless adventures in nature and spend entire summers outdoors. As my family is deeply in love with Arthur Ransome’s “Swallows …

Nov

10

2014

Us by David Nichols

Us by David Nichols

It isn’t often that I laugh out loud while reading a book and very rarely a book that has been snorting in hysterics but I just couldn’t hold it in with this one and it may have drawn a few stares.  To say I loved this book is a terrible understatement.  At moments I wondered …

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