Hayley's Children's Book Reviews

Suppose You Meet A Dinosaur A First Book Of Manners is a fun, humorous book to help teach kids manners written by Judy Sierra.  In this book a little girl is shopping at a grocery store when she runs into a dinosaur.  The conversation between the girl and the dinosaur is entertaining yet helps kids learn how to respond politely with all the right words for different real life situations.

Rob Scotton’s, Secret Agent Splat!, is the perfect book for any kid who loves mysteries.  Splat the cat has an awesome collection of toy ducks in many different shapes and colors.  However, Splat notices something is wrong when his ducks begin to go missing and then are returned without their beaks.   Who could possibly be responsible for all this trouble?  Help Secret Agent Splat rise to the challenge to solve this cat-and-mouse mystery.

It’s Time To Sleep, My Love written by Eric Metaxas is a sweet, loving poem which helps convey to children how much they are loved.  Beautiful illustrations by Nancy Tillman and the rhyming verse make this poem a perfect bedtime story.

 The race is on!  A heavy-duty freight train pulling a half a mile of freight cars and a little red race car decide to have a race to Chicago.  Read I’m Fast! by Kate and Jim McMullan and see who wins the race through the desert, the mountains, a blizzard and more.  Will it be the speedy little race car or the enormous heavy duty freight train?

Hayley's Children's Book Reviews

Sally Sutton grabs young kids’ attention with the clever use of sound words and rhyming verse in Demolition. Kids will have as much fun reading and learning about the massive machines used to knock down buildings as well as the equipment used to construct new structures. Machine facts at the end of the book help kids learn the purpose of different pieces of equipment.


Meeow And The Little Chairs by Sebastien Braun is a simple story for young kids about Meeow a black cat and his friends. Meeow introduces little kids to different colors, his friends who are different types of animals and the sounds they make. Read this clever book with bold, colorful illustrations and see how Meeow and his friends use their imaginations.


Dora Duckling is late for her very first swim and can’t find her brother anywhere. Many different tracks around the barnyard lead Dora on an adventure but will they lead Dora to the pond? Find out in That’s Not My Brother! a beautifully illustrated book with fun fold-out flaps written by Peter Bently.