What is The Kid List?

I love reading. I love reading children's books. I go to the library with my 4 year old son and can't wait to get home and start reading to him. When we go to the library, I let him loose in the children's section and pick whatever books he wants. When we get home, we discover some great finds, and I wonder how others were even considered by a publisher.

After many trips to the library, I thought it would be fun to start writing book reviews. My whole life I've been an avid reader of children's and young adult novels. My mom worked at our local library when I was a kid. After school I would hole up, Matilda style, in the children's section. I would find the librarian's step stool, take it to a seldom used corner, and stack up children's books next to me. I would step into the world of books and live my "other life" until it was time for us to go home, at which point I would check out the rest of the stack, and the cycle started over the next day. I think by the time my mom stopped working there, I may have read the entire children's section.

Now that I'm a mother of two, I don't have time to read as much as I'd like, but I am again finding how easy it is to love a short 10 minute story. I hope you enjoy my list of recommended books and if you want, can easily avoid some of the bombs that I find.