Webster Bible Church and Webster Christian School Library Blog

  Uncle Murray stays with Puppy and Kitty for the week while their family takes a trip.  In fits of paranoia, Kitty projects all kinds of evil intentions on pet-loving Uncle Murray–and cartoon mayhem ensues! OK. I admit it. I’m a cartoon snob. My straight-laced middle-aged female librarian heart considers all books with cartoons guilty [...]

Beauty the farmyward hen owns a beauty shop, The Chic Hen. When she discovers that Lance the Turkey is destined for the Thanksgiving Day Table, she hatches a plan to save him. This  funny Thanksgiving Day story has lots of egg-related puns that the children enjoy listening for in a read-aloud.  The bright illustrations include hilarious details that individual readers will [...]

“When Lucy, a young bear, discovers a boy lost in the woods, she asks her mother if she can have him as a pet, only to find him impossible to train.” (Library of Congress) The idea for this book brewed inside Peter Brown for a long time: “When I was a child, I once found [...]

  It’s bedtime and little red chicken begs Papa for a bedtime story. As the book title, Interrupting Chicken, and the cover illustration clearly cue the reader, chicken has a problem with interrupting stories.  Despite her earnest declarations that she’ll refrain, chicken can’t resist jumping into the middle of three fairy tale stories (“Hansel and [...]

“While running a spy network from their elementary school, five unpopular misfits combine their talents and use cutting-edge gadgetry to fight evil around the world.” (CIP) The concept of this book is brilliant. The author wants to show that those kids at school who are the social outcasts and the target of bullies have tremendous potential and [...]

“Joe, Sam, and Fred travel to thirteenth-century China, where they disguise themselves as astrologers and meet Marco Polo.”(CIP) Most of us have a hard time remembering historical or scientific facts taught in isolation.  This  humorous book (#16 in the Time Warp Trio series) conveys a lot of significant information in the context of a brisk, fun [...]

“When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.”(CIP) Just the title and cover of this book have put me off from reading it until recently.  However, knowing how [...]

“Fox tries to earn the money for a new bicycle in several different jobs.”(CIP) Children enjoy the silly but gentle humor in this series. One of my pet peeves is books that include “Oh my God.”  Unfortunately, one hears the Lord’s name taken in vain in this way nonstop these days both in personal conversations [...]

It’s 1958, and twelve-year-old Bobby Barnhard and his family are the new neighbors of Grandma Dowdel.  Always the consummate story-teller, Richard Peck has put together another rollicking tale with gun-toting Grandma Dowdel as one of the main characters.  Set 20 years later, this book is a companion novel to “A long way from Chicago” and “A year down [...]