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Little Boy 6 reviews
Alison McGhee
Atheneum, 2008
Baby gift
I purchased this title on a whim when a very dear friend of mine and his wife had their first child, a little boy. It just seemed right. I wasn't disappointed. It's a delightful story about a "little boy" and what's important to him. Of all his toys--the big cardboard box--and what parent doesn't understand that?
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Bye-bye, Crib
Alison McGhee
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2008
There it is. Over there. The big bed... Am I ready? #1 New York Times best-selling author Alison McGhee tells the tale of a child's first rite of passage - from the crib to the big bed. Ross MacDonald's glowing illustrations will comfort, amuse, and inspire toddlers and even their parents as they take this first big step together.
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Someday 99 reviews
Alison McGhee
Atheneum, 2007
A bit of a tear-jerker
Delightful story perfect for a Mom to give her daughter while she is pregnant. It reminded me of "I'll Love You Forever", but geared towards someone with a Baby girl.
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Countdown to Kindergarten 9 reviews
Alison McGhee
Voyager Books, 2006
enjoyable for kids and adults
Other reviewers have discussed the content of the book, so I won't go into more detail on the storyline, but what I like best about the book is the ending: once the little girl actually gets to school, she and her classmates realize after conferring together that none of them know how to tie their shoes and that it's OKAY. Or, on a greater scale, you can think of it as a child's fear of feeling ...
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Rainlight18 reviews
Alison McGhee
Picador, 2001
poignant and delicate ... a sure winner
A tragic accident brings out musings from 4 different characters and reveals secrets between each other that some goes a long way.
This book is beautifully written. It's poignant, delicate, touching ... reading it feels like having a soft velvety whisper of air on your skin. Each character grows on you that you feel like you know them very well. Each secret is revealed flawlessly. And after ...
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Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers4 reviews
Borealis Books, 2008
Be Glad for Riding Shotgun's Difference
Women are from Venus. Women's Intuition. The Feminine Mystique. Whatever you want to call it, women have a different kind of sensitivity and power from their Y-chromosomed counterparts, and that perception may be the most finely tuned with regard to one's mother.
"We know things, my sisters assure me. We know the future. No, sometimes we know the future, I caution. My dead sister knew who was ...
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Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth5 reviews
Alison McGhee
Voyager Books, 2008
As hip as you wanna be
There's an odd complaint that sometimes cycles through the parent circles of this great American country. If a children's picture book is filled with just too many injokes and gags for the parents to get (and not their kids) then that book is immediately given the back-handed compliment of "hip". The "Olivia" books by Ian Falconer are "hip". "Many Moons" by James Thurber is "hip". Do you see ...
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Julia Gillian (and The Art Of Knowing) (Julia Gillian) 1 review
Alison Mcghee
Scholastic Press, 2008
Curiosity and Worry
All summer, almost-fifth-grader Julia Gillian tries her hardest to avoid reading a book about a boy and his dog because she assumes it will have a unhappy ending. After all, it seems as though dogs don't often survive those stories - Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, etc. She doesn't want to think about such things, especially because she has a pet dog, Bigfoot, who is her constant companion. ...
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A Very Brave Witch3 reviews
Alison McGhee
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2006
Just a great, great book for kids
I bought 10 of them and gave them to all the nieces and nephews for the Holidays. The story is cute, the illustrations are amazing. Bliss packs a lot of funny goodies into the backgrounds for parents as well. Its a real fun read, and the kids loved it cause there is so much there to find during multiple readings. Buy one or 10, you won't be disapointed.
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Shadow Baby (Today Show Book Club #14)41 reviews
Alison McGhee
Picador, 2003
Beautifully written--provoked me to both laughter and tears
This book captivated me almost immediately and I devoured it in one sitting. I found the author's development of Clara's quirky personality to be realistic and amusing, as she reminded me greatly of myself at that age--a voracious reader, imaginative storyteller, perceptive thinker, and lover-of-language.
I loved how Clara's imagination ran away with her to the point of her being unable to ...
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All Rivers Flow to the Sea12 reviews
Alison Mcghee
Candlewick, 2007
YOU CANNOT GO WRONG WITH ALISON McGHEE
ALL RIVERS FLOW TO THE SEA
Being a fan of Ms. McGhee's, I am very slowly working my way through her writing only because I don't want to run out of her wonderful books. She is amazing!
This book is listed as a TEEN book. Adults, have at it. This is one heck of a good read.
Ms. McGhee hits home with her stunning story of young teenaged Rose trying to deal with an accident that leaves ...
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Snap (Unabridged)
Alison Alison McGhee
audible.com
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Algun dia/ Someday
Alison McGhee
Serres, 2007
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Snap9 reviews
Alison Mcghee
Candlewick, 2004
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This book is about a girl named Edwina she really likes lists she makes them for every thing. She has a best friend. Her best friends grandma is her friend to. Ed ,her nickname, and her friend really like sprinkled doughnuts. She has 5 braclets that she wears onher wrist and they mean different things. Like one means dont tip back in your chair but if she does she has to snap it.
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Falling Boy: A Novel3 reviews
Alison McGhee
Picador, 2007
a beautiful novel filled with sadness and wonder
In Falling Boy, Joseph works in a bakery in Minneapolis. He is sixteen years old and he is confined to a wheelchair, but more than that he is often confined within his own mind. He speaks some, but not often and not at length and certainly not about the reason why he is confined to a wheelchair in Minneapolis. Zap is seventeen years old and while I cannot tell exactly if he works at the bakery ...
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Was It Beautiful?: A Novel11 reviews
Alison Mcghee
Three Rivers Press, 2004
absolutely perfect
WAS IT BEAUTIFUL? is the story of William T. Jones' unbearable grief at the loss of his son, and how the people in his small town watch over him to help keep him from slipping into a gaping hole of madness. Though the story that unravels here is profoundly sad, the way the people in William T's life come to his aid is just as profoundly uplifting. This story gives new meaning to the saying 'You ...
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One Minute of Knowing
Carolyn Colburn, John Engman, ...
The Loft, 1996
An anthology of poetry and creative prose by the winners of the 1996 Loft-McKnight Awards and Awards of Distinction.
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