It’s Monday! What are you Reading? is a weekly blog hop hosted by Kellee and Ricki of Unleashing Readers. The original IMWAYR, with an adult literature focus, was started by Sheila at Book Journeys and is now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.
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The end of the first quarter, the end of ILearn Checkpoint 1 testing, and the coming of Fall Break are all on my mind, as well as these books:
Physical Books: I received a beauty! Amy Storey from Eerdmans Books for Young Readers sends me such wonderful material! You MUST see this one! The Tree That Was a World by Yorick Goldewijk is filled with interconnected stories (I just love this concept!) of 17 creatures that live under, on, and near a special tree. I love this book for 5 main reasons: 1) The gorgeous cover has little shiny eyes everywhere — intriguing! 2) The stories are funny, heartwarming, surprising, and interconnected, so once you read about one of the animals, you know it will show up again somewhere else. 3) The writing is perfect for both young children and adults (Check out “The Pike” and “The Other Pike.” Adults will gasp at the end of “The Jet-Black Ant.” Those are my favorite.). Onward with no more spoilers! 4) The illustrations by Jeska Verstegen are perfect mixed media creations for the stories. Gorgeous! (Look at the owl’s eyes!) 5) The translation by Laura Watkinson brings this book to the United States for us English readers to enjoy and share.
NetGalley: Next up is a title I hadn’t heard of until today. The Moon Without Stars by Chanel Miller is a middle grade book coming in January 2026 from Penguin Random House. I love Chanel Miller’s memoir, Know My Name, a Best-Book of 2019, also published by Penguin, so I know I’ll love this new one about a 7th grader who needs to find herself in the middle of messy middle school.
Libro.fm: I didn’t get very far with A Little Too Haunted, so I’ll have to spend more time over fall break with this one.
Last, but not least, Sunday will be a Nerdy Book Club reunion (I hope a lot of us can attend) with JOSH FUNK (!) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Josh’s latest LPASFT title, Who Donut? is out now, and we will celebrate! (LPASFT = Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast is a fabulous series. You should read them all!)
It’s Monday! What are YOU reading?
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