What started out as a website to recommend great children’s books, Books Children Read has transitioned into a place where parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends can go to read reviews and make good decisions about the books they buy for their kids. Each book review is written thoughtfully with an eye for how well the illustrations help tell the story, how it’s formatted, printed, and written.
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Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion
By Shannon Stocker, illustrated by Devon HolzwarthDial Books for Young Readers, 2022Picture book, 40 pages, ages 4-8 From the moment Evelyn heard her first…
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The Mitten
By Jan BrettG.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1989Picture book, 32 pages, ages 1-5 Jan Brett’s retelling of a Ukrainian folk tale opens with a boy asking…
Blizzard
By Jon RoccoLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2014Picture book, 40 pages, ages 3-7 One day, when I was a young boy, nearly four…
Tyrannosaurus Rex vs Edna the Very First Chicken
By Douglas Rees, illustrated by Jed HenryHenry Holt & Co., 2017Picture book, 40 pages, ages 4-8 Everyone is terrified of the voracious Tyrannosaurus rex,…
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We Don’t Lose Our Class Goldfish
By Ryan T. Higgins Disney-Hyperion, 2023Picture book, 48 pages, ages 4-8 Penelope Rex is just like every other kid … except for being a 7-foot-tall…
Gigantosaurus
By Jonny DuddleTemplar Books, 2014Picture book, 32 pages, ages 3-7 Bonehead, Tiny, Fin, and Bill – four dinosaur friends – spend their days “playing…
Tiny T. Rex the Grand Ta-Da!
By Jonathan Stutzman, illustrated by Jay FleckChronicle Books, 2023Picture book, 52 pages, ages 3-5 Pointy wants to be in the talent show, and Tiny…
A Is for Bee
By Ellen Heck Levine Querido, 2022Picture book, 40 pages, ages3-9 We speak to each other in many languages, and in some of them… A is…
Don’t Touch That Flower!
By Alice Hemming, illustrated by Nicola SlaterSourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2023Picture book, 32 pages, ages 2-5 It’s spring, and Squirrel isn’t sure he likes it. But…
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The Bear and the Piano
“This gorgeously illustrated tale of following one’s dreams reminds us of the value of friendship, wherever we go.”
I Am Mozart Too
“To everyone who has heard of my famous younger brother but has never heard of me.”
