Here are my favorite new-to-me children’s books this year, in order by author. Last year, I used Indiebound for this list, but for some unknown reason they deleted my account (?). Since then, I’ve been using Amazon Marketplace. <a HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fmonpoo-20%2F8001%2F9d0925b2-beb8-4095-9761-ae69f3e5cb1b&#038;Operation=NoScript">Amazon.com Widgets</a> (Interesting that four of the authors h

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games was one of my favorite books and this last book in the trilogy did not disappoint. Full of the exciting characters and sudden plot twists we have come to expect from Suzanne Collins, I literally did not want to put this book down. Of course, I had to since I was reading it out loud with my husband and we do have to go to bed at a decent time these days. Sigh. While it may be common knowledge that books with girl main characters w

And because he blogged about it, several people at his work have even picked it up and read it as well. My husband and I even rushed out one night to buy the sequel (Catching Fire) from our local bookstore (Porter Square Books) just before it closed. Can’t wait for the third book, Mockingjay, to come out! You have to read this book!! My writing group is launching a new group blog in the next few weeks (or months…depending on how lazy we are), so I’ll wait for that to go into