by sherylbooks | Oct 1, 2019 | Chapter Book Reviews, For Educators, For Kids, For Parents, Reviews
Sheryl’s Blog – News, Reviews & Muse Established Kids & YA author with a weakness for shoes, books, gardens & grandchildren. Harvey Comes Home by Colleen NelsonI have just finished the most wonderful middle grade novel, Harvey Comes Home by...
by sherylbooks | Jan 27, 2012 | Chapter Book Reviews, For Parents, Picture Book Reviews, Reviews, Young Adult Book Reviews
The Children’s Book Centre wants to help you celebrate family literacy today and all year long with an annotated list of fabulous books to inspire reading. Check it out. Family Literacy Day (January 27, 2012) | Canadian Children’s Book Centre.
by sherylbooks | Jan 17, 2012 | Reviews, Writing Life
“And if you can’t stand the heat of the blogosphere – don’t Google yourself.” This is the conclusion of an article in the Guardian about the latest dust-up in the blogosphere around young adult book reviews where readers duke it out over their...
by sherylbooks | Jan 8, 2012 | Reviews, Writing Life |
It seems like these days, everyone is a reviewer. One of my fav bogs is YA Highway. Yesterday (Jan. 6, 2011) Veronica Roth posted a really thoughtful piece on the reviewer/author relationship. Whether you are an author, reviewer or a consumer of books, it’s...
by sherylbooks | Aug 31, 2011 | Young Adult Book Reviews
I never travel without a book or two or three, but that doesn’t stop me from buying new ones along the way, even if I haven’t finished what I brought. So, at a cute little bookstore along the wharf in San Francisco I picked up Jay Asher’s Thirteen...
by sherylbooks | Aug 1, 2011 | News, Picture Book Reviews
So this morning I’m leaving for the LA SCBWI conference Monday morning. Taking the ferry over to the lovely Olympic Peninsula, then heading down the I-5 with a detour to Nevada so that I can fit in a quick visit to my mom. Probably won’t get much of a...