Book Reviews A-Z

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1

• 100 Cupboards
• 14 Cows for America
• 17 Kings and 42 Elephants

3

• 3 in 1 (A Picture of God)

A

• A Ball for Daisy
• A Cat Named Swan
• A Christmas Memory
• A Color of His Own
• A Field Full of Horses
• A Fine Dessert
• A Gathering of Angels
• A Good Day
• A Goose Named Gilligan
• A Home for Bird
• A is for Abraham
• A Leaf Can Be…
• A Long Way from Chicago
• A Monster Calls
• A Mother for Choco
• A Quiet Neighborhood
• A Sick Day for Amos McGee
• A Story for Hippo
• A Sweet Smell of Roses
• A Violin for Elva
• A Visitor for Bear
• A Wreath for Emmitt Till
• A Wrinkle in Time
• A Year Down Yonder
• Adam and Eve’s First Sunset: God’s New Day
• Advent Gifts: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Advent Gifts: A Northern Nativity
• Advent Gifts: Brother Hugo and the Bear
• Advent Gifts: The Big Orange Splot
• Advent Gifts: The First Night and The Nativity
• After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again)
• All in a Day
• All Kinds of Strong
• All of Me
• All the Colors of the Earth
• All the World
• All the World
• All Things Bright and Beautiful
• Almost to Freedom
• Always
• Am I Making God Smile?
• Amazing Grace
• Amazing Peace
• An Angel for Solomon Singer
• An Angel Just Like Me
• Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock
• And Then It’s Spring
• Angels Among Us
• Anna Hibiscus’ Song (and an Interview with Hanna Schock of Picture Book Theology)
• Anna Was Here
• Anna’s Heaven
• Annie on My Mind
• Anytime, Anywhere: A Little Boy’s Prayer
• Are You My Friend?
• Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
• Around the Year
• As Good As Anybody
• Ask Me
• At Break of Day
• At Your Baptism

B

• Bad Apple: A Tale of Friendship
• Badger’s Parting Gifts
• Ballet Cat: The Totally Secret Secret
• Balloons over Broadway
• Be Good to Eddie Lee
• Beatrice’s Goat
• Because of You
• Because of You
• Before You Were Mine
• Believe Me I Know
• Benjamin’s Box
• Best Bible to Give a High School Graduate
• Beyond the Ridge
• Big Blue Whale
• Big Cat Pepper
• Big Red Lollipop
• Black is Brown is Tan
• Bless This Mouse
• Bless Your Heart
• Bone
• Boundless Grace
• Brave Squish Rabbit
• Bread and Roses, Too
• Broken Hearts….Healing
• Brother Sun, Sister Moon
• Brotherhood
• Butterflies Under Our Hats

C

• Catcher Caught
• Catching Fire
• Charlie the Ranch Dog
• Children of God Storybook Bible
• Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
• Christmas Books for Elementary Children
• Christmas Books for the Very Young
• Christmas Farm
• Christmas!
• Circles of Hope
• Circus Mirandus
• City Dog, Country Frog
• Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type
• Come On! Play Ball!
• Come Sunday
• Come to the Great World
• Come Worship With Me
• Coming Home
• Coming on Home Soon
• Cougar Cub Tales: I’m Just Like You
• Courage
• Cups Held Out

D

• Dancing the Ring Shout!
• Dancing Wheels
• Devilish
• Dog Heaven
• Don’t Laugh at Me
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
• Dr. Seuss Goes to Church: Yertle the Turtle
• Dragon’s Child
• Dream: A Tale of Wonder, Wisdom, and Wishes

E

• Each Kindness
• Earth and All Stars
• Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She was Extinct
• Elbert’s Bad Word
• Eleanor, Quiet No More
• Elizabeth Leads the Way
• Ella Enchanted
• Elmer and the Rainbow
• Elsewhere
• Ender’s Game
• Eric the Boy Who Lost His Gravity
• Evaluating Bible Storybooks
• Everett Anderson’s Goodbye
• Every Soul a Star
• Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like
• Extra Yarn

F

• Faith
• Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet
• First the Egg
• Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
• Florence Nightingale
• Fly Away Home
• Follow the Drinking Gourd
• For Every Child
• For Pete’s Sake
• Forever Young
• Four Feet Two Sandals
• Freedom Over Me
• Frindle

G

• Garmann’s Summer
• Gathering Blue
• Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
• Gift of the Christmas Cookie
• Gifts of the Heart
• Giraffes Can’t Dance
• Give a Goat
• Glamsters
• God Bless the Child
• God of the Sparrow
• God’s Dream
• God’s Dream
• God’s Quiet Things
• God’s Rainbow
• Goin’ Someplace Special
• Grace at Christmas
• Grandfather and I
• Grandmother and I
• Grandpa’s Soup
• Grateful
• Greedy Zebra
• Green
• Grit and Grace: Heroic Women of the Bible
• Growing in God’s Love: A Story Bible
• Grumpy Cat
• Guess How Much I Love You

H

• Hank Finds an Egg
• Hanne’s Quest
• Happy
• Harvesting Hope
• Have you Seen Christmas?
• He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands
• Heads Up: The Story of One Quarter
• Heartsongs
• Hello Baby!
• Hello World: A Celebration of Languages and Curiosities
• hello! hello!
• Helping Elementary Children with Grief: Pablo Remembers
• Henry’s Freedom Box
• Here in the Real World
• Hiding Places
• Hold Fast
• Home
• Horrible Bear!
• Horton Hears a Who!
• How Big is God?
• How Full is Your Bucket?
• How to (un)Cage a Girl
• How to Heal a Broken Wing
• How to Heal a Broken Wing
• Hug
• Hush Harbor

I

• I Am Number Four
• I Don’t Want to Be Crazy
• I Hate Roland Roberts
• I Lay My Stitches Down
• I Like Myself
• I Love My Hair
• I Love You the Purplest
• I Want to Be Free
• I Wish I Had…
• I’d Choose You
• I’m New Here
• Ice Bear: In the Steps of the Polar Bear
• Ida, Always
• If Big Can…I Can
• If I Never Forever Endeavor
• If Jesus Came to My House
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
• If You Want to See a Whale
• If You’re Missing Baby Jesus
• Images of God for Young Children
• Imagine a Place
• In Every Tiny Grain of Sand
• In God’s Name
• Inkheart
• Inside Out and Back Again
• Into the Wild
• Invincible Louisa
• Is There Room on the Feather Bed?
• Island of the Skog
• It’s Kind of a Funny Story

J

• Jamaica’s Find
• Jane, the fox & me
• Jason & Kyra
• Jepp, Who Defied the Stars
• Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
• Joan of Arc: Religious and Military Leader
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• John Calvin
• John Calvin
• John Knox
• Jonah’s Whale
• Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
• Journey to the Bottomless Pit: The Story of Stephen Bishop and Mammoth Cave
• Jubilee
• Just the Way You Are

K

• Katie Loves the Kittens
• Keep Your Ear on the Ball
• Kids’ Quest Study Bible
• Kira-Kira
• Koala Lou

L

• Last Stop on Market Street
• Leap Back Home to Me
• Left to Tell
• Lenny Loses His Lunch: A Lion’s Tale
• Leonardo’s Horse
• Let the Whole Earth Sing Praise
• Let There Be Peace on Earth
• Letting Swift River Go
• Liar & Spy
• Life As We Knew It
• Light in the Darkness
• Like a Wolf
• Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
• Listen to the Silent Night
• Listen to the Wind
• Listen to the Wind
• Listen to the Wind
• Little Blue Truck
• Little Gorilla
• Little People, Big Dreams: Rosa Parks
• Living Color
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
• Llama Llama Holiday Drama
• Llama Llama Red Pajama
• Lord of the Rings Triology
• Loser
• Love Is
• Love You When You Whine

M

• M is for Manger
• Make Room: A Child’s Guide to Lent and Easter
• Make Way for Ducklings
• Making the Run
• Mama Always Comes Home
• Mama Says: A Book of Love for Mothers and Sons
• Mama’s Girl
• Manger
• Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song
• Mary’s First Thanksgiving
• Mary’s Treasure Box
• Masterpiece
• Me With You
• Messenger
• Michael Rosen’s Sad Book
• Migrant
• Miracle Man: The Story of Jesus
• Miss Fannie’s Hat
• Miss Spider’s Tea Party
• Miss Tizzy
• Missing Mommy
• Mockingjay
• Molly’s Pilgrim
• More
• More More More, Said the Baby
• Morning Has Broken
• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
• Mouse Tales, Things Hoped For
• Mr. and Mrs. God in the Creation Kitchen
• Ms. Bixby’s Last Day
• Mudshark
• My Beautiful Birds
• My Brother Martin
• My Father’s Arms Are A Boat
• My Heart Will Not Sit Down
• My Name is Truth; The Life of Sojourner Truth
• My Sister, Alicia May
• My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay
• My Two Blankets

N

• Naamah and the Ark at Night
• Nasreddine
• New Moon (part of Twilight series)
• Night Tree
• Nightsong
• No Matter What
• No Two Alike
• No, David!
• Noah’s Ark
• Not in Room 204: Breaking the Silence of Abuse
• Not Your Typical Dragon
• Number the Stars
• Number the Stars

O

• Odd and the Frost Giants
• Oggie Cooder
• Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
• Old Noah’s Elephants
• Old Pig
• Olive’s Ocean
• On the Night You Were Born
• Once a Mouse
• One City, Two Brothers
• One Special Me: A Book Celebrating How God Made Us Special
• One Tiny Turtle
• Ophie Out of Oz
• Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Day
• Otis and the Scarecrow
• Our Children Can Soar

P

• Papa, Do You Love Me?
• Parables: Stories Jesus Told
• Paul and Sebastian
• Pax
• Peace
• Peace is an Offering: Children and Charleston
• Penny and Her Marble
• Perfect Square
• Pete’s Angel
• pictures of hollis woods
• Piglet and Papa
• Pilgrim Book of Bible Stories
• Potato Man
• Princess Furball

Q

• Quiet

R

• Rain School
• Rain!
• Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom
• Red Red Red
• Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors
• Remember the Manger
• Rifles for Watie
• Room One
• Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie

S

• “Superior Pet” in The Rainbow People
• Santa’s Favorite Story
• Say Hello, Sophie!
• Say Something
• See the Ocean
• Shelter Folks
• Shoe Magic
• Sing Praise
• Sisters of Scituate Light
• Sleeping Ugly
• Sloppy Joe
• Slow Dance Heart Break Blues
• Smack Dab in the Middle of God’s Love
• Smoky Night
• Snook Alone
• Snowshoe Thompson
• Someday
• Someday
• Something Beautiful
• Something to Sing About
• Somewhere in the World Right Now
• Son
• Song of the Stars
• Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx
• SPARK Story Bible
• Speak
• Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
• Stargirl
• Stellaluna
• Stepping on the Cracks
• Stepping Stones
• Stone Soup
• Stories from A to Z – 26 Brief Reviews
• Stories from the Bible: Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors
• Stormbreaker
• Sunday is for God
• Surprising Sharks

T

• Tacky the Penguin
• Tear Soup
• Ted Studebaker: A Man Who Loved Peace
• Teens and Faith: American Born Chinese
• Teens and Faith: Marcelo in the Real World
• Teens and Faith: The Bronze Bow
• Teens and Faith: This Gorgeous Game
• Teens and Faith: Three Final Reviews
• Teens and Faith: Three Short Reviews
• Thank God for Circles
• Thank You, God
• That Book Woman
• That’s What Friends Do
• The Action Bible
• The Bad Seed
• The Barefoot Book of Children
• The Baronet’s Song
• The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights
• The Big Box
• The Big Picture Story Bible
• The Black Snowman
• The Blessing Cup
• The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas
• The Bracelet
• The Brimstone Journals
• The Bully and Me: Stories that Break the Cycle of Torment
• The Butterfly
• The Carrot Seed
• The Center of Everything
• The Chickens Build a Wall
• The Christmas Story
• The Chronicles of Narnia Pop-Up: Based on the Books by C. S. Lewis
• The Clown of God
• The Color of Me
• The Color of Me
• The Comic Book Bible
• The Cool Cat
• The Creation
• The Cruisers: Oh,Snap!
• The Curious Garden
• The Dark
• The Day the Crayons Quit
• The Day When God Made Church: A Child’s Book about Pentecost
• The Delany Sisters Reach High
• The Donkey’s Christmas Song
• The Easter Story
• The Easter Story
• The Empty Pot
• The Face of Our Past
• The First Christmas: According to Luke
• The First Noel: A Holiday Pop-up Book
• The Foolish Tortoise
• The Forgiveness Garden
• The Funeral
• The Gift of Nothing
• The Girl and the Bicycle
• The Give-Away: A Christmas Story
• The Giver
• The Giver
• The Glass Puzzle
• The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough
• The Graveyard Book
• The Great Brain
• The Grimm Legacy
• The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day
• The Holy Twins, Benedict and Scholastica
• The Host
• The House in the Night
• The Hunger Games
• The Inquisitor’s Tale:Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
• The Invisible String
• The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name
• The Journey
• The Keeping Quilt
• The Kissing Hand
• The Legend of Saint Nicholas
• The Legend of St. Nicholas
• The Legend of the Poinsettia
• The Lenten Tree: Devotions for Children and Adults to Prepare for Christ’s Death and His Resurrection
• The Librarian of Basra
• The Lightning Thief
• The Lions of Little Rock
• The Listening Walk
• The Little Leftover Witch
• The Longest Night
• The Lost Track of Time
• The Lunch Thief
• The Magic Circle
• The Man Who Loved Books
• The Memory Box
• The Miracle Stealer
• The Name Jar
• The Nativity
• The Nativity
• The Newborn Child
• The Night Gardener
• The One, the Only Magnificent Me!
• The Perfect Nest
• The Pine Tree Parable
• The Plot to Kill Hitler
• The Pout-Pout Fsh and the Bully-Bully Shark
• The Present
• The Princess and the Goblins
• The Proper Use of One’s Shell
• The Quiet Book
• The Quiltmaker’s Gift
• The Red Tractor and the Little Village
• The Right Word
• The River and the Rain – The Lord’s Prayer
• The Runaway Bunny
• The Sandwich Swap
• The Secret of Salix Babylonicus
• The Shine Man: A Christmas Story
• The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
• The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone
• The Story of Ruby Bridges
• The Summer Before Boys
• The Tallest of Smalls
• The Thank You Book
• The Thing About Luck
• The Three Questions
• The Tiger Rising
• The Tree: An Environmental Fable
• The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
• The Very Best Story Ever Told: The Gospel with American Sign Language
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• The View from Saturday
• The View from Under the Pew
• The Visitor
• The Water Hole
• The Wild Robot
• The Wish Giver
• The Witch’s Boy
• The Wonderful Happens
• The Year of Billy Miller
• The Year of the Jungle
• The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree
• The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
• They All Saw a Cat
• Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls
• This House, Once
• This is Not a Picture Book!
• This is Our Baby Born Today
• This is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
• This Moose Belongs To Me
• This Plus That: Life’s Little Equations
• Three Bears in a Boat
• Three Easter Journeys
• Thunder Boy, Jr.
• Tidy
• To Everything There Is a Season
• Today is the Birthday of the World
• Tomie DePaola’s Book of Bible Stories
• Train to Somewhere
• Tuck Everlasting
• Tunes for Bears to Dance To
• Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship and Survival
• Two Weeks of Bibliographies Coming Your Way

U

• Uglies
• UP
• Up a Road Slowly

V

• Verdi
• Voices in the Park
• Voices in the Park

W

• Wait
• Waiting
• Wake
• Walking Home to Rosie Lee
• Wangari’s Trees of Peace
• Water, Come Down!
• We Are In A Book
• We Found a Hat
• We Gather at This Table
• We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song
• We’ll Paint the Octopus Red
• Welcome Home, Mouse
• Welcome Janet Lloyd! (And her review of Potatoes, Potatoes)
• Welcome, Child of God
• Wemberly Worried
• What Do You Do With A Problem?
• What Does My Teddy Bear Do All Night?
• What I’m Reading Now….
• What Keeps Me Standing
• What This Story Needs Is a Pig in a Wig
• What Will Grow?
• What’s Your Favorite Christmas Book?
• When Bear Stole the Chinook: A Siksika Tale
• When Daddy Prays
• When God Was a Little Girl
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
• When No One is Watching
• When Spring Comes
• Where Does God Live?
• Whittington
• Who Counts? 100 Sheep, 10 Coins and 2 Sons
• Who is Coming to Our House?
• Who Is My Neighbor?
• Whoever You Are
• Why Christmas Trees Aren’t Perfect
• Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
• Wolf Hollow
• Wolf in the Snow
• Wombat Walkabout
• Wonder
• Woof: A Love Story
• Words with Wings: A Treasury of African American Poetry and Art

Y

• Yankee Blue or Rebel Gray
• Yard Sale
• Yellow and Pink
• Yes We Can
• You Are a Gift to the World
• You Are Special
• You Nest Here With Me
• You’re All My Favorites
• You’re Finally Here
• Ysabel

Z

• Zacchaeus and the Happy Day