Has anyone noticed how close we are getting to Review #100? Really close!
We've spent the last two and a half years recommending our favorite books to all of you. I thought in honor of this 100th Review milestone we would do something special. We'll give one of you, our readers, the chance to pick the book for our 100th review. We'll do this a little differently from our first Readers' Pick. Instead of us giving a list of recommendations and you voting, this time we'll do it the other way around.
In the comments, suggest one book that you would like to see the Z-Kids review. Any book at all. New. Old. Classic. Unknown. Picture book. Graphic novel. Chapter book. Board book. And yep, you only get to suggest one. Tough decision! If someone has already listed your favorite, go ahead and use your comment to suggest another. Multiple votes for the same book won't give it any more weight.
We will do our best over the next couple of weeks to locate as many of your recommendations as we can. I look forward to seeing how many will be books that we already know and love, and how many will be new discoveries for us! After we spend time with the books you all have suggested, I'll let the kids each rate their favorites. I'll tally up their votes, and the book with the most points wins the distinction of Bookie Woogie Review #100! (And who knows, perhaps some runners-up might find their ways into future reviews...)
Update: Thanks for all the suggestions! Here's what you recommended:
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
ReplyDeleteMichael Ande's Momo or if it were never transelated into English then "the never ending story".
ReplyDeleteFablehaven by Brandon Mull
ReplyDeleteOdd Velvet by Mary Whitcomb.
ReplyDeleteChildren of the Forest by Elsa Beskow
ReplyDeleteThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
ReplyDeleteTico and the Golden Wings by Leo Lionni!!!!
ReplyDeleteJust So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling!
ReplyDeleteThe Goose Girl by Shannon Hale (a friend of yours, I believe)
ReplyDeleteSquare Cat!
ReplyDeleteThe invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
ReplyDeleteThe Cozy Book by Mary Ann Hoberman
ReplyDeleteSomething from Canada....The Nine Lives of Travis Keating by Jill McLean.
ReplyDeleteI am Learning all the time by Rain Perry Fordyce
ReplyDeleteThe Thief by Megan Whalen Turner :)
ReplyDeleteWhen Life Gives You O.J. by Erica S. Perl
ReplyDelete(yes, it is a self-serving suggestion but I totally think you guys will dig it)
Congrats on 100 reviews, and best wishes for many, many more!
But No Elephants by Jerry Smath
ReplyDeleteGone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
ReplyDeleteRoxaboxen by Alice McLerran, illustrated by Barbara Cooney
ReplyDeleteThe Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge, but only with original illustrations by C Walter Hodges.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Fablehaven. It's a great series!
ReplyDeleteOver Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
ReplyDelete"Underground" by David Macaulay.
ReplyDeleteHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
ReplyDelete"Moosetache" by Margie Palantini
ReplyDeleteThe Red Tree by Shaun Tan
ReplyDeleteIf you can find it, Gobboline the Witch's Cat, by Ursula Williams. If not, Granddad's Prayers of the Earth, bu Douglas Wood. {I think Gobbolino might be out of print, I'm not trying to sneak in an extra vote.}
ReplyDeleteWell done on 100 reviews. I only found you recently, but I've really enjoyed reading with you.
That cover of The Little White Horse is one of the editions which annoys me, gives away the main surprise in the story.
ReplyDeleteDon't know what the surprise is, but I swapped in a different cover for you ElizT :)
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A kind thought but even worse.
ReplyDeleteSorry to be so picky!
Ha ha! Is it because there is a unicorn on the cover? I've found 9 different covers, and every one of them has the unicorn. Here are 7 of the 9:
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/2010/02/10/top-100-childrens-novels-85-81/
I give up!
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll have to re-illustrate it someday :)
ReplyDeleteOooh, can I still offer a suggestion? How about "We're In A Book" by Mo Willems? Really seems like it's right up your alley.
ReplyDeleteSorry, the right title is "We Are in a Book!" Even if it's not #100, I think it'd be great.
ReplyDeleteNightshade City by Hilary Wagner. I've heard good things about it! ;)
ReplyDeleteAdventures in Dreamland: The Wild Ride by Lisa Pollock (yours truly :))
ReplyDeleteWhen the kids are a few years older, I'd recommend Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt. For now - how about Sidney & Norman by Phil Vischer? (wow, it's so hard to pick just one . . .)
ReplyDeleteMoon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
ReplyDeletePeter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier
ReplyDeleteSomeone already recommended my favorite: Roxaboxen. And Erica already cleared the way to a self-serving suggestion, so I think I'll follow suit: this picture book comes out on Tuesday: Teach Your Buffalo To Play Drums by me, Audrey Vernick.
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