Reviews written by Olivia Farr, Assistant Blog Manager & Staff Reviewer

LOOK, IT'S HOOT HOOT OWL is a fun and engaging lift-the-flap board book. Each page features an animal with shiny foil designs and a flap to lift to find a bug. The end of the book brings them all together with their sounds along with a flap that is covering...

LOOK, IT'S MOO MOO COW is an engaging and cute lift-the-flap board book. The book features four barnyard animals, their sounds, and a bug to find under a felt flap. The end of the book includes the animals again, along with their sounds, and a mirror for young children to...

LITTLE BEAR, WHERE ARE YOU? is a cute lift-the-flap board book. The book features a question looking for different animals, who then say that they are there to ask the question of "where are you?" back at the readers. By lifting the flap, children find a mirror to show them...

MEET THE MUSHROOMS! is a vibrant, rhyming board book. The story features smiling mushrooms in die cut pages alongside a poem about them. The images build on both sides of the book as the pages are turned, exposing different mushrooms and their activities along the way. ...

BABY BE is a sweet poem about fathers, their babies, and the love they share. The book features a poem and charming illustrations about the time, music, and fun dads and babies have together. What I loved: This simple and rhythmic book is fun...

LOVE IS MY FAVORITE COLOR is a sweet, poetic picture book about positivity. The book features lyrical prose about many positive and meaningful elements, such as hope, equality, bravery, and happiness. It compares them to unlikely experiences, such as love being a color in the title. Unique and colorful illustrations...

LIKE SO is a lovely picture book about love. Featuring a grandmother and granddaughter, the book proposes that "We got love like so," and compares their love to world around them. Traveling through nature and around a day, the images tell a story of a life spent together in love....

FIRST DAY, WORST DAY is a delightfully silly start to a new chapter book series. The story features a boy who is incredibly unlucky and wants to protect his identity by redacting his name and showing himself with an emoji covering his face. [Redacted] has had a tough time in...

WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL is an intriguing YA fantasy about a young woman who does not belong and seeks to remove the part of herself that has caused her to be an outlier. Liska has magic, something that is not allowed by the church nor the other villagers. Her...

HEARTLESS HUNTER is an absolutely enchanting, haunting, and consuming YA fantasy. Featuring a witch and a witch hunter on opposite sides, their path to love is anything but simple. Rune Winters is notorious from the rebellion, as she turned in her own grandmother to be executed as a witch. However,...

THIS DAY CHANGES EVERYTHING is a delightful YA contemporary about finding yourself and finding love. The story follows Abby and Leo in alternating points-of-view. They are each arriving from their small towns into NYC to participate in the Thanksgiving Day parade with their respective marching bands. Abby has a massive...

ALL THIS TWISTED GLORY is an enthralling sequel to an enchanting YA fantasy series. This third book continues the story of Alizeh, Kamran, and Cyrus which began in THIS WOVEN KINGDOM, with an explosive ending that will leave readers gasping for the next installment. The story begins with Kamran completing...

EVEN IF IT BREAKS YOUR HEART is a lovely and consuming YA cowboy romance. The story follows two characters who are regaining their footing in the world due to the events that changed the course of their lives. Case is a rodeo bull-rider who has a particular skill for it....

THESE DEADLY PROPHECIES is an engaging murder-mystery with a magical twist. Tabatha is an apprentice to a renowned sorcerer, though her parents would rather she be working towards a law degree. Tabatha has a skill with prophecy that she is learning about, and she doesn't believe it when her mentor...

A FRAGILE ENCHANTMENT is an intriguing YA romantic fantasy about selfishness, living for yourself, and sacrifice. Niamh has family magic, passed down through the generations from the gods, that allows her to imbue the clothing she embroiders with emotions. Being a talented seamstress, her ability has enhanced the things she...