Wilsons' Reviews

Monday, January 6, 2025

A Wedding in Haiti, by Julia Alvarez

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I knew about Julia Alvarez because I worked at a middle school for about six years, and in the course of that time one of the English classe...
Monday, November 29, 2021

Rude Cakes, by Rowboat Watkins

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 A young cake with ZERO manners spends the first half of the book ignoring its parents, pushing other baked goods out of the way, and genera...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

The African Doctor

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 At first glance, this movie seemed to be about whether or not a rural French village will accept a (French-educated) African doctor and his...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

The Schmutzy Family, by Madelyn Rosenburg

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 After I read it to two neeflings, plotted to read it to two more, and put it on my own to-buy list, I decided that it was probably time to ...
Monday, March 1, 2021

El Deafo, by Cece Bell

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  I learned about this book because I went to an author event set up by my public library-- and I got to see and hear Cece Bell speak. She w...

Gamayun Tales, by Alexander Utkin

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 Graphic novels "based on traditional Russian folklore." Exciting, fast-paced, not too gory or overtly sexual for my extremely tam...

The Flying Witch

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 Jane Yolen, legend of storytelling for extremely good reason, did not disappoint as she added to the already-established genre of Baba Yaga...
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