Bad Badger: A Unique Friendship Story for Young Readers

It’s easy to misinterpret a book; these are interesting times aren’t they? Bad Badger: A Love Story is the sort of emerging reader chapter book that has the potential to be loved, but can also struggle to find its people. At its core, Bad Badger is a sweet story about friendship, but tells the story through a very smart lens with a bigger vocabulary and a more mature, nuanced setting that will reward those who have the patience for it.

Bad Badger: A Love Story is actually one of deep friendship, replete with old-school charm, loving details and chapters for ages 8 and up.
Don’t look for hidden inferences, this is straight up charming

Penelope’s Balloons, a sublime color hug about change and habits.

Penelope’s Balloons, an illustrated book about a girl and her red balloons is a strong metaphor about OCD and overcoming aspects of it.

Penelope’s Balloons is a brightly-colored illustrated book about an anthropomorphic elephant and the 10 red balloons she always carries around.

Penelope is a friendly and quiet girl who happily jaunts around town with her ten, red balloons. She’s known for this and has come to depend on them being around at all times. How will she respond when a massive storms hits the park where she’s playing and blows her balloons all over town?

Penelope’s Balloons is a sublime color hug about change, habits, and learning about them both.
Color and negative space aplomb

The Door That Had Never Been Opened Before, a timeless new classic

The Door That Had Never Been Opened Before is an illustrated book with a look. It’s tactile appearance makes you reach out and touch the flat pages within the book as if you want to open the door or flick the characters to see if they’re drawn on a spring and move if you push just a little bit. The story is timeless, and a child’s first encounter with an age-appropriate M.C. Escher illustration. Combine the two and there’s a trippy dippy creative real-along illustrated book that will have the younger ones laughing while you’re reading it, and place a wide, silent grin on the older kids that pick the book up for some alone time when you’re not around.

The Door That Had Never Been Opened Before is an illustrated book that due to its look, has an old soul, and due to its totality is a new classic.
The M.s. Escher vibe is only the start of the fun

Spineless, animal and intrigue-based mglit for ages 8-12

Steampunk is another person’s Gilded Age, albeit with possibly more action, intrigue, and impossibly complex wooden machines. Spineless has a certain steampunk vibe about it, but when the rubber hits the road it’s more late 1800s, which is when that popular aforementioned show takes place. However, this is about the mglit book that we recently read. It’s called Spineless and is a case where the cover sucks you in, and the story manages to keep you there. This is a book that patient, middle-grade mystery with periods of adventure.

Spineless is an mglit book that I wanted to enjoy more than I did. It’s aimed at ages 11-14 for those readers who like intrigue with an animal hook and a side of Scooby-esque hijinks.
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