For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s book and media review publication, we have a review of “Fright Favorites: 31 Movies to Haunt Your Halloween and Beyond” by David J. Skal.
What happens on Halloween night after the trick-or-treating is done, the kids are asleep, and the evening quiets? The ghosts come out to play. In “The Haunted Playground,” author R.J. Palacio and illustrator Brett Helquist have fashioned a ghostly picture book for young readers who want to partake in the scary part of Halloween without it being too creepy. We spoke with them about “The Haunted Playground,” their love of Halloween, their library memories, and more.
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s book and media review publication, we have Matthew Galloway’s review of “Fabulous Bodies” by Chuck Tingle.
In episode 37 of the “How I Library” podcast, show host and I Love Libraries editor Phil Morehart speaks with author Molly Guptill Manning about her new book, “A Librarian’s War: The Man Who Fought World War II with Books and Brought the Joy of Reading to Millions,” which tells the incredible story of Ray Trautman, the Chief Librarian of the U.S. Army during WWII.
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s book and media review publication, we have Emily Graham’s review of “The Book of Disappearing Plants” by Štěpánka Sekaninová, illustrated by Eliška Podešvová, and translated by Mark Worthington.
Welcome home … where horror awaits. Get ready to shake, shiver, maybe even scream! Audio makes these evil houses all the more visceral, and with horror fiction on the rise, you’ll find plenty of options in this list from ALA’s Booklist to keep you up at night.
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s book and media review publication, we have Leah von Essen’s review of the haunting novel, “The Girl with a Thousand Faces” by Sunyi Dean.
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s (ALA) book and media review publication, we’re kicking off the Halloween season with Becky Spratford’s review of “Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World” by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former ALA staffer Daniel Kraus.
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s book and media review publication, we have Diego Báez’s review of “Redwork” by poet Laurie Ann Guerrero.
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s book and media review publication, we have Emily Graham’s review of “What Do People Do at the Science Museum?” by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and illustrated by Qin Leng.
