This list spans quite an age range. Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Detective is great for experienced readers ages six and up, but Coraline is probably too scary for anyone under eight or nine (and some adults). Most of these are good for readers ages seven to twelve seeking graphic novels (or to old people "them funny books"). Seven of these are in series. One is based on a movie. One is based on a book. · Bad Kitty Takes a Bath by Nick Bruel · Binky the Space Cat by Ashley Spires · Bigfoot Boy by J Torres · Zita Space Girl by Ben Hatke · Yotsuban and… by Kiyohika Azuma · Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Detective by Colleen Venable · Babymouse series by Jennifer and Matt Holm · Coraline by P Craig Russell (and Neil Gaiman) · Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan · My Neighbot Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki (I just realized I have had dinner with two author/artists on this list! That had NOTHING to do with their making the list, Librarian's Honor!) |
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Since it's a holiday weekend, Mr. Tim is taking a short holiday from Children's Literature to give you a top ten of his favorite adult novels. These are books I have read multiple times (in some cases) and still love...
Nothing much new, eh? Well, I mostly don't get a lot of opportunity to read the big boy books these days. Animal fantasy, magical realism, dark fantasy, thrillers, horror, feminist science fiction...all over the map genre wise, but all good! Check these out if you can find them!
Everyone loves making lists...well, ok I do. So I am making lists of my top 10 of everything (mostly book related). Ask me to name my top 10 in any category and I can probably give you 20 or 100 depending on the category...and the list next month of the same type of books might be a little different (or a lot different depending on my mood,) but here's the first list (not really in top order):
Yeah, I know...not a lot of award winners there, huh? Not traditional "best of" picks. But I love those books! Some made me laugh, some made me cry, some made me laugh TIL I cried. There will probably be a rebuttal list of best picture books when one of my other personalities rears its head at some later date (it's crowded in here). Read them and tell me what you think!
PS An FYI: You probably shouldn't Google "Dirty Cowboy" go to your library to look for it... |
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