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Review by Tintin, age 9 Legends of Zita the Spacegirl Author/illustrator: Ben Hatke Publisher: First Second (9/2012) Genre: Graphic Novel Legends of Zita the Spacegirl is about a girl who saves the planet Lumponia from star hearts. A robot who is pretending to be the spacegirl is messing things up. I like it because it is an adventurous story. My favorite part was when they used a giant to

Review by Tintin, age 9 Invisible Inkling Author/illustrator: Emily Jenkins/Harry Bliss Publisher: Balzer + Bray (April 2011) Hank Wolowitz lives in New York and owns an ice cream shop called The Big Round Pumpkin with his mom, dad, and his sister, Nadia. One day at the shop, Hank feels something under the sink. It feels furry. He finds out it is an animal called a bandapat, and it is

Some of us have a small obsession with Phineas and Ferb. At the most recent Scholastic book fair, each boy got a Phineas and Ferb book, as well as a Phineas and Ferb poster to share. Tintin also recently asked for a book on platypuses because he correctly assumed Perry the Platypus was not your average platypus and he wanted to see what they were really like. A couple of reviews: The Phineas and

Review by Johnny Boo, age 5 Valentine the Porcupine Dances Funny Author/illustrator: Derrick Brown/Jenny Lewis Publisher: Write Fuzzy Source: The publisher Valentine the Porcupine is about a radio with a porcupine who says, "Will someone dance with me?" Her momma says, "Strange is cool," and Valentine says, "I believe you, Momma." And then her momma says, "I love you because

Review by Johnny Boo, age 5 Hot Hands and the Weirdo Winter Author/illustrator: Derrick Brown/Matthew Carver Publisher: Write Fuzzy (January 2010) Source: The publisher Hot Hands freaks everyone out because her gloves are made out of metal and her hands are fire. A little boy went to school and he fell in love with Margo. The boy made a snowman for Margo because when she builds one the snowman

Review by Johnny Boo, age 5 Hot Hands and the Weirdo Winter Author/illustrator: Derrick Brown/Matthew Carver Publisher: Write Fuzzy (January 2010) Source: The publisher Hot Hands freaks everyone out because her gloves are made out of metal and her hands are fire. A little boy went to school and he fell in love with Margo. The boy made a snowman for Margo because when she builds one the snowman

Reviews by Tintin, age 8 The Diamond Tree Author: Michael Matson Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing (July 2010) Source: The publisher The Diamond Tree is about a prince [Prince Dall] who goes on a quest to find the diamond tree to break the spell and turn it back into a princess. Her tears turn into diamonds. He goes to a castle and the angry prince likes riddles, so he gave a riddle to him.

 Review by Johnny Boo, age 5   The Three Little Pigs App developer: Nosy Crow Price: $7.99 ($1.99 till end-of-day March 3); free lite version Requirements: Compatible with iPad (will soon be available for iPhone and iPod Touch) The Three Little Pigs is about a wolf coming in the neighborhood. The pigs were building their houses. And then the wolf couldn't blow down the brick house

Review by Johnny Boo, age 5 Little Mouse Gets Ready Author/illustrator: Jeff Smith Publisher: Toon Books (September 2009) Little Mouse Gets Ready is about a mouse who talks. He put on clothes and his mother said, "What are you doing? Mice don't wear clothes!" I liked this book because it's bookyish. My favorite part is when he takes off his clothes and goes running to the barn. I would

Review by Johnny Boo, age 4 Johnny Boo and the Mean Little Boy (Book 4) Author/illustrator: James Kochalka Johnny Boo and the Mean Little Boy is about Johnny Boo and Squiggle. Johnny Boo and Squiggle are ghosties. Squiggle had to make new friends. The mean little boy comes over and thinks the ghost is a butterfly. Johnny Boo finds Squiggle in a jar. My favorite part is when Johnny Boo lets

Johnny Boo's favorite books when he was learning to read were the Flip-a-Word books by Harriet Ziefert and Yukiko Kido. He couldn't get enough of them then, and he still enjoys reading them now, even though he's on to more-advanced books. Each Flip-a-Word book focuses on three word families: Crab Cab (the ot family, the ab family, the it family) Pig Wig (the ig family, the ug family, the at