Rating: WARTY! This is NOT from an advance review copy for which I DO NOT thank the publisher. I have to rate this negatively because o...

Rating: WARTY! This is NOT from an advance review copy for which I DO NOT thank the publisher. I have to rate this negatively because o...

Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I have to rate this negatively because it begins wi...

Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This graphic novel was a bit of a ill-fated cross b...

Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This was an entertaining book about Lizzy, her fri...

Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Translated from the original French by David Warri...

Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I thought this book was a great idea and I enjoyed...

Rating: WARTY! This was another disappointing audiobook experiment! First of all it was first person, which is nearly always a bad ide...

Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. In Rudyard Kipling's original Jungle Book stori...

Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This was a story of teen pregnancy and resultant ch...

Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This was a 'Read Now' graphic novel at Net ...

Rating: WORTHY! The last thing (and only thing prior to this) that I'd read by this author was the pretentiously titled "The I...

Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Although I was enjoying this book I can do none oth...

Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is a charmer of a book for young children, to...

Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I recently favorably reviewed this artist's bo...

Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Not to be confused with Twisted Fate by Pamela Ke...

Rating: WORTHY! Since Belgium is having such a good run in the World Cup (as of this writing!) it seems like a good idea to review this...

Rating: WORTHY! This was another audiobook experiment and it's the one I wait for while wading through all the others! The story w...

Rating: WORTHY! This book consists of a series of sections showing the different ways that girls can be strong, from overcoming persona...

Rating: WORTHY! This is another in the Narwhal series, and it features Narwhal becoming a super hero - a sea-per hero? His sidekick is...

Rating: WORTHY! This was a short, fun, colorful book about a narwhal and his relationship with his friend the jellyfish and other creat...

Rating: WORTHY! This was a short, fun, colorful children's book about a trip to the library. There's not much to say about tha...

Rating: WORTHY! This book is subtitled "A True Story of Hope and the Healing Power of Animals" but too often in reading it, I...

Rating: WORTHY! This is a book for children, about prejudice and determination, amusingly illustrated, beautifully written. Ursula and...

Rating: WORTHY! Tupera Tupera is a duo of authors who write children's books in Japan, where this book is known cutely as Shirokuma...

Rating: WARTY! Read by the author - who actually doesn't do too bad of a job - this was another failed audiobook trial. The subjec...

Rating: WORTHY! I didn't realize, when I picked this up, that it was part of a larger world, and maybe even a series. The publishe...

Rating: WORTHY! This was a small format, short, fun book with a strong Latin influence, aimed at teaching young children simple shapes ...

Rating: WARTY! I read and enjoyed Daughter of Smoke & Bone but not so much the sequel and I never did finish the trilogy because I...

Rating: WARTY! This graphic novel taken from the original novel by Philip Pullman, adapted by Stéphane Melchior, with art by Clément Ou...

Rating: WARTY! Read slightly annoyingly by Gibson Frazier, this audiobook started out interestingly enough. It's part of a series ...

Rating: WORTHY! Chevalier Jiro Taniguchi (he's a knight in France!) died last year at the age of 69. I understand that this book, ...

Rating: WORTHY! Read by Lyle Lovett of all people, and pretty decently too, this audiobook turned out to be a worthy listen despite som...

Rating: WARTY! This was disappointing graphic novel which spent too much time on the wrong topics, I felt. Plus it was too long and ra...