Reviews written by Liz Coyne

In Good Sports, Jack Prelutsky, the Children's Poet Laureate for 2006-2008, teams with one of my favorite picture book illustrators, Chris Raschka, for a wonderful book of poems all about sports. Introducing kids to new poetry can be tricky, especially after we've all practically memorized Shel Silverstein, so finding this...

We know The Knot Fairy well in my house. She stops here every night to tie my one curly red-headed boy's hair into twists and tangles. This cute, rhyming picture book introduces a new fairy that I'd never thought of. In our house we have The Good Fairy (for when...

Brothers Jeff and David and their kooky cousin Claire (and their dogs) are a great team when it comes to solving mysteries in their small mountain town. The Blizzard on Blue Mountain is the fifth in the Cabin Creek Mysteries series and this time around, it's winter...

Only Giacomo, Leonardo da Vincis servant, knows the struggles his master is going through while trying to paint The Last Supper. Between pressure from the Duke of Milan and the prior of the monastery (where the artwork is to be painted) to finish the now infamous masterpiece, and the stress...

Max Goes to Mars is the latest adventure in a series of science-adventure books starring Max, a smart, curious rotweiller that loves space travel. After traveling to the moon in his last book, Max Goes to the Moon, hes sent to Mars this time around to search for life on...

The Police Cloud is a snappy, cheerful, colorful, tight book with a plot simple enough for a one-year old, but interesting and kooky enough for a 6 year oldafter all, who ever heard of a police cloud? The story and illustrations, which may look familiar to adult...

To a Midwesterner like me, kids like Cabo and Coral, who live near a beach with real waves are the luckiest kids in the world! Youve got to be hip to all the surfer lingo to truly enjoy this richly illustrated picture book that follows two kids, Cabo and Coral...