Madigan Reads

We did it! This year I vowed to read a book day to my daughter. We finished up reading our 365th board book this month, but we'll k...

Earlier this year, I made a pledge to read to my baby daughter every day. I was feeling like, "the cobbler's children have no shoes...

What Floats in a Moat? by Lynne Berry Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers July 2013  Here is a rather lengthy picture book take o...

Dig, Dogs, Dig by James Horvath Harper Collins April 2013 Go, Dog, Go meets your favorite construction book in this entertaining rhyming...

Dino Bites! by Craig Algy H all Boxer Books March 2013 Simple, loud and funny, this story is a total triumph. One dinosaur chomps ano...

Jasper and Joop by Olivier Dunrea HMH Books for Young Readers March 2013 Simple sentences compare and contrast neat, Felix Unger type Ja...

Nora's Chicks by Patricia MacLachlan, illustrated by Kathryn Brown Candlewick Press February 2013 Russian emigre Nora is friendless a...

Millie's Chickens by Brenda Williams, illustrated by Valeria Cis Barefoot Books May 2015 This sweet British import features rh...

How to Catch a Mouse by Philippa Leathers Candlewick Press April 2015 Observant readers will enjoy spotting the mouse hidden i...

Oh no! There's much consternation on the internets, as author Shannon Hale talks about a sadly frequent phenomenon. Being invited as ...

Here's one way to enjoy the snowy weather... Is that a #Hogwarts snow sculpture we see?! MT @PeteKotsonis : Lumos! #harrypotter pic.t...

Great Cheese Robbery by Tim Warnes Little Tiger Press March 2015 This British import features anthropomorphized elephants with...

The Newbery and Caldecott awards are going to be announced soon - all of the American Library Association youth media awards, actually, inc...

I've seen plenty of wordless picture books in my day, but this is a first... The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak sure looks like fu...

This week's topic from The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Book Covers I'd Frame As Pieces of Art. I'm going to do someth...

Polar Bear Morning by Lauren Thompson Scholastic Press January 2013 Two polar bear cubs explore the arctic, finding seals, seagulls and ic...

The Loopy Coop Hens: Letting Go by Janet Morgan Stoeke Dial Books February 2013 Chickens don't fly... like Newton's apple, they...

Underground by Denise Fleming Beach Lane Books September 2012 Here is a unique and simple picture book with a few words per page. Flem...

Nothing Ever Happens at the South Pole by Stan, Jan & Mike Berenstain Harper August 2012 This story has the feel of an early unpubli...

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin, illustrated by James Dean HarperCollins May 2012 Litwin and Dean can't go wro...