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Book to movie review: Hugo
This week I finally had a chance to see Hugo (on DVD). Hugo is Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret. I wasn’t sure how I would respond to the movie,...
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Tween Book Review: The Houdini Box
(CONTAINS SPOILERS) The Houdini Box is another short work by Brian Selznick (it is about the same length as The Boy of a Thousand Faces, reviewed here). Once again, Selznick combines his amazing...
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The new books for The Reading Pros have arrived!
I just spent a lovely afternoon going through the new books that just came in for The Reading Pros book club. We have ordered five new titles: Small as an Elephant, Wonderstruck, What the World Eats,...
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The unputdownable book
Against the advice of some readers who claim they would stop reading the blog if I started using slang or made up words, I am coining the phrase “the unputdownable book” (unputdownable: adj. a...
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Tween Book Review: Liar & Spy
Once in a great while, I read a book that is so amazing, all I want to do is read another one exactly like it. Well, maybe not exactly like it, but at least very closely related to it. Usually, this...
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Author Interview: Lynn Plourde
This spring I was lucky enough to hear Donn Fendler, Lynn Plourde, and Ben Bishop speak about their graphic novel, Lost Trail. Most Mainers are familiar with Donn Fendler’s story as told in Lost on a...
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The Reading Pros: Wonderstruck
Image from: scholastic.com When I’m planning a book club meeting, sometimes the book is so multifaceted and amazing that it’s difficult to figure out what we should do. Wonderstruck is one of those...
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