L' isola dei giocattoli perduti. Ediz. illustrata

***This review has also been posted on Xpresso Reads Teddy & Co immediately caught my attention when I saw it being compared to works by A. A. Milne and Kate DiCamillo. Up to this point I had read nothing by Cynthia Voigt (even the famous Tillerman Cycle books) but after reading Teddy & Co I can see Leggi tutto

During the early 1980s when Cynthia Voigt won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor for books two and three of the Tillerman Cycle, she leaned toward writing young-adult fare. Thirty years later, however, her books tended to be for younger kids, and Teddy & Co. , released in 2016, fits that pattern. Leggi tutto

Rudolph & the Island of Misfit Toys meets Winnie the Pooh... When children "pretend and do role play" things just appear to make their role play imaginative. I believe this book is just that and nothing more. It's told in short chapters, almost like a series of ER books. It is AR level 4.5 and 4 pts, Leggi tutto

This was a recommended children's book from the local library. To be honest, the cover drew me in and for some reason I was thinking the author was a well-known adult author, so I figured I'd give it a go. With very few illustrations in this nearly 200 page book, I was disappointed. The illustration Leggi tutto

I love Cynthia Voight's young adult books, so was excited to see a children's book by her. But I didn't like the book at all, and would not have liked it when I was a child. It's old-fashioned, and not in a good way. Toys, mostly stuffed animals, live on an island, with no past and no explanation of Leggi tutto

This was a fun read aloud for my 5 year old! I wish it had more illustrations since it is an illustrated chapter book, but the ones present were great. It did feel like 3 or 4 different stories squished together which was a bit confusing to follow the plot along. The whimsy and child-like characters Leggi tutto