Do you remember Bread and Jam for Frances?  How about Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind Family, about a Jewish immigrant family of five mischievous girls living with their parents on the upper east side of New York on the eve of World War I?  That book made me want to be Jewish.  I distinctly remember the part about Purim.

I’ve been perusing the latest edition of The Horn Book Magazine, and since it’s a hodgepodge of articles written by famous children’s books authors who are reminiscing, I can’t help but find similarities between their childhoods and mine.

In the book review section, I’ve starred the following picture books, middle grade novels, and young adult novels to add to my t0-read list.

Here they are.

Beatrice Boutignon’s Not All Animals Are Blue: A Big Book of Little Differences

Helen Lester’s Tacky Goes to Camp

Margaret Mahy’s Bubble Trouble

Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Duck!  Rabbit!

Ed Young’s Hook

Komako Sakai’s The Snow Day

Kierin Meehan’s Hannah’s Winter

Rosanne Parry’s Heart of a Shepherd

Tim Wynne-Jones’ The Uninvited

Ah.  More reading.  Isn’t it wonderful the world is full of books?