The Children's Book Guide

As many of you will have noticed, Junior Bookworm is a very part time affair for me. When we started out as the Picture Book Quarterly back in 1996 (before the internet began), I was reading at least twenty picture books a day. Now I read one or two a month. My children have grown up and so to has the website. It turned into a blog when my brother in law Adam graduated from Oxford and moved on. It also changed its focus from picture books, my great love, to chapter and audio books. But they take longer to read and listen to and we're not nearly in the car enough to devote the hours to a collective audio book. Those are my excuses. So it would be dishonest to my readers not to forward you the recommendation of my brother in law David, who introduced me to The Children's Book Guide, a thorough, organized, consistent and polished site about kids' books. I can't say that we at the Junior Bookworm agree with all their choices. And the fact that the The Seven Silly Eaters, among others, is not on their list of the hundred greatest books of all times (not a single Rosemary Wells is on the list) just shows that we all have our favourites. And you will have yours. And even definitive sites, who you can trust to be object much more than the JBW, can be found putting Sheep in a Jeep in their top fifty (if you want a link to that book you need to look it up yourselves). This is not goodbye. Just a little friendly message. Good night.

Comments

[Patricia]

We loved BOTH the Seven Silly Eaters and Sheep in a Jeep. I would also urge people to check out http://www.chinaberry.com/ a wonderful company who steered us towards many of the books that became our favorites.