Who are the Roving Reader Leaders who appear in our upcoming kids’ book? They’re a group of reading lovers who meet weekly at the library to discuss books, which is just what we do in real life. In our next book, the book lovers must work together, along with golden
It’s not easy for Michael, now 13 and chief of the Roving Reader Leaders, to let go of his kids’ books. But today, for the second time, we gathered up some of our favorites and donated them to the Children’s Book Bank, based in Portland. Among them were some of
We were recently invited to be speakers at an author workshop sponsored by Toastmasters, Write Here, Right Now At the workshop, we told the story of why we started our “Bash and Lucy” books about six years ago: We were trying to overcome grief over the death of our golden
By Lisa Cohn Two Roving Reader Leaders–a club created by me and Michael–appeared on live TV yesterday to share their love of reading and discuss their book reviews and author interviews. With teddy bears in hand, they discussed their favorite books and their recent interview with Troy Cummings, the popular
Keep an eye out for our next Kidlit author interview! Four of our Roving Reader Leaders, age 8-11, interviewed one of their favorite authors recently via Skype. The boys were excited and nervous, but asked great questions and came away from the interview very inspired. Watch our last author interview
What prompts an 8-year-old budding book reviewer to shout “I love this book!” while swinging from a rope swing (while clutching the book in hand?). In this case, Michael, our budding KidLit reviewer, says the book, “Teddy Mars: Book #1: Almost a World Record Breaker” prompted the excitement. He stayed
We’re excited that Scooby author Laurie Sutton granted 7-year-old Michael’s wish to include a spiky monster in her next book! The Scooby-Doo! book, “Legend of the Gator Man” will be released by Capstone in October and features a monster that looks like this:
By Lisa and Michael Cohn On our new YouTube Channel and website–Roving Reader Leaders–Kids lead kids’ book chats–in gyms, bookstores, parks, museums and on playgrounds–anywhere kids can be found! To share our love of reading and writing with more children, we decided to move our children’s book reviews and our
“Bash and Lucy Fetch Jealousy” Audiobook Recorded by Four Boys for School Kids We just released our latest kids’ audiobook, “Bash and Lucy Fetch Jealousy,” which features the voices of four young boys: Michael, age 7 (co-author of the book), Edward, age 9, and twins Matthew and Adam, age 7.
By Lisa and Michael Cohn Michael, our 7-year-old kids’ book reviewer, has read every “Magic Tree House” book he can find in libraries and book stores. In this kids’ book review, conducted in Charlottesville, Va., Michael reviews “Eve of the Emperor Penguin,” giving it 99 million plus 99 stars. Michael