Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

So we went late one night to Borders (because Barnes & Noble closes SO early) and wandered around the kids section looking at Caldecott Award winning books. This book, (it's actually called "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus") was written by Mo Willems and we picked it up after we read another book he wrote which won the Caldecott, Knuffle Bunny.  read more »

I'm not going to lie to you: this book is the Cinderella story. However, unlike the Robin McKinley books, I completely forgot this fact for MOST of the book. That's a sign of a good author.  read more »

"National Institute of Mental Health!" Rebecca yelled. She was so pleased to have figured this out early in the book, but we never found out if Robert O'Brien agreed.  read more »

Oh man. I picked up this book because I kept seeing it in every bookstore on the front table in the youth fiction. Of every store. And since there have been something like four sequels to the book, I was intrigued. I couldn't make out what, if anything, the book was about besides that it had something to do with fantasy in some way or another and had connections to the "who-done-it" genre books. So I was interested and we picked it up.  read more »

I haven't written a book review since middle school. But here we go. Robin McKinley likes to retell fairy tales in her own way. This one was about Sleeping Beauty, based loosely on the fairy tale. It's interesting, because you kind of know where the story is going and how it will end, but a few surprises catch you that much more off guard.  read more »

Before we moved out to Seattle, we decided to pick up some books for our trip. On long trips, we like to read each other stories out loud and we're always up for a good youth fiction or two. However, the bookstore was having a sale on all books so we suckered ourselves into buying a pile of books we would bring with us to Seattle. Never leave us alone in a bookstore, we'll end up getting SOMETHING.  read more »