How did I not find out about this until a year after book one? Is that the author and illustrator of Ivy+Bean? This is big. This is a cold, calculated series designed to wear away at your funny bone and wallet. Welcome to Stella & Marigold. Premise Stella and Marigold live in a half-house (on […]
So I wasn’t planning on making another new article type this year, but then I realized: there’s actually a decent amount of movie adaptations of chapter books. And TV shows. Even stage plays. That’s at least one Watch List article a year. So let’s talk about this movie. Actually, let’s talk about the chapter books […]
So I’ve talked about Sophie before, but there’s been a couple books since then. This being the second one. And it’s really good. Let’s Be Real… Every Sophie book is good, but this one might be one of the best. It’s a pretty good example of not just a Sophie book, but chapter books in […]
So I guess chapter books are the prime age group for activity books as well, because there sure are a lot of them. An article-load amount of them. Let’s look at as many as we can, shall we? The Books (For all these activities shown, you can right-click on them and open in a new […]
Yep, I finally got there. It’s Rainbow Magic time. So Rainbow Magic is a Heckelbeck-level lengthy chapter book series that I’ve been avoiding for a while. But sometimes you find a near-mint collection at Goodwill last week and fate has other plans. You’ve probably heard of Rainbow Magic. There’s over 300 books at this point, […]
I promised multiple new blog categories this year, so here’s the second! Double Booked compares two very similar series to each other. In case you were confused. Or just wanted to know the differences. Or if I didn’t want to do a Series Spotlight on one of these two series. Today I’m going over Owl […]
I didn’t cover this in my anniversary post, and it lets me talk about books and series I normally might not cover. I’m gonna try to keep these to English only covers, because foreign covers tend to be a lot more interesting, and maybe gets away from the original publisher’s intent. Setting the Standard In […]
So I’ve done this before, but last time we weren’t so chapter book focused. It seems almost every chapter book features a mean girl eventually. If you read that past article, you’ll know we’re here to classify mean girls by commonly seen character traits: Mean, popular, perfect, preppy, rich, snooty, and conceited. Occasionally bonus traits, […]
Yeah yeah, it’s not chapter books. Again. Welcome to a new article type: Carte Blanche! As the name suggests, this’ll let me talk about non-chapter book things when the muse strikes. Mostly actual French titles, also like the name suggests. These won’t be very frequent, so don’t worry. Chapter books are still the primary focus […]
I get enough questions about chapter books, so I’ve put together a short list of information regarding the format. I might update this from time to time as I learn more, so check back every once and a while! Anything I missed? Anything you want to hear more about? Let me know in the comments!
The Mousehold 