Uncensored Children’s Book Reviews

These brutally honest children’s book reviews are no longer for librarians’ eyes only. See what the men and women behind the circulation desk really think of Green Eggs and Ham (“there must be better ways of teaching a child to read than this”).

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DreamWorks Animation's Head of Character Animation reveals the secret recipe to create a dragon: a little panther, some wombat, a bit of crocodile, a dash of T-Rex, and even a touch of helicopter.

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American Ballet Theatre soloist Misty Copeland’s commercial for Under Armour features the history-making ballerina challenging established notions of what it means to be an athlete, taking on the stage with both grace and undeniable strength.

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The Killers recently won a big music award: not a Grammy or anything of that sort, but the honor of having written the weirdest song lyric—and they had some very strange competition.

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Shipping crates stacked by the side of the road are so often an eyesore; why not turn them into something beautiful?

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Stephen Colbert doesn't often break character, so it's a big deal when he takes one of those rare occasions to dole out honest, heartfelt advice for teenage girls on dealing with misogyny, making someone's day better, and how cookies can tip someone off that you like them.

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Learn everything there is to know about baking with chocolate to avoid wasting even the slightest bit of it on a bad batch.

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Chocolate isn't actually brown. Take a minute to process that one.