Lynn Becker
@lynnbbooks.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Author of MONSTERS IN THE BRINY, JUNE MOON, and GHOST TOWN IN THE MOUNTAINS (2026). Children’s book reviewer for Shelf Awareness. http://lynnbeckerbooks.com
Today on the blog: October’s Book of the Month is AGGIE AND THE GHOST, by Matthew Forsythe lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/octo...
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Today on the blog: October’s Book of the Month is AGGIE AND THE GHOST, by Matthew Forsythe lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/octo...
Today on the blog: October Recommendations! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/octo...
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Today on the blog: October Recommendations! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/octo...
Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of Moonleapers, Margaret Peterson Haddix's suspenseful series opener featuring 12-year-old Maisie who experiences a life-changing summer in which she learns how to take apart and reknit time. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/shel...
October 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of Moonleapers, Margaret Peterson Haddix's suspenseful series opener featuring 12-year-old Maisie who experiences a life-changing summer in which she learns how to take apart and reknit time. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/shel...
Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of The Spy in the Museum, a gripping picture book about how Rose Valland spied on Nazis as they stole, sold, and burned masterpieces from her Paris museum during World War II. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/shel...
October 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of The Spy in the Museum, a gripping picture book about how Rose Valland spied on Nazis as they stole, sold, and burned masterpieces from her Paris museum during World War II. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/shel...
Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review of Broken, yet another winning picture book by author/illustrator X. Fang, which describes a passionate, child-centered experience that includes boredom, crisis, redemption, and... cake! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/shel...
October 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review of Broken, yet another winning picture book by author/illustrator X. Fang, which describes a passionate, child-centered experience that includes boredom, crisis, redemption, and... cake! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/shel...
Today on the blog: Late Again, September Recommendations! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/sept...
October 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Today on the blog: Late Again, September Recommendations! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/sept...
Today on the blog: Guest post with Lisa Rogers, author of Woody’s Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows! Please stop by! @lisaljrogers.bsky.social @picturebookgold.bsky.social
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September 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Today on the blog: Guest post with Lisa Rogers, author of Woody’s Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows! Please stop by! @lisaljrogers.bsky.social @picturebookgold.bsky.social
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Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of The Blue Velvet Chair, a poetic rumination on the world outside young child’s window, from the familiar comfort of a favorite chair. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/09/shel...
September 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of The Blue Velvet Chair, a poetic rumination on the world outside young child’s window, from the familiar comfort of a favorite chair. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/09/shel...
Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of Squirrel and Bird, in which an increasingly irritated Bird is frustrated by the story’s narrator typecasting them and their friend Squirrel. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/09/shel...
September 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of Squirrel and Bird, in which an increasingly irritated Bird is frustrated by the story’s narrator typecasting them and their friend Squirrel. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/09/shel...
Today on the blog: the deceptively simple, sweetly creative board book YOUR FOREST, by Jon Klassen. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/augu...
August 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Today on the blog: the deceptively simple, sweetly creative board book YOUR FOREST, by Jon Klassen. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/augu...
Today on the blog: Six Picture Books for August! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/augu... @karenjameson15.bsky.social @ishaalobo.bsky.social @lourdesheuer.com @maxwelleaton.bsky.social @jashar.bsky.social @elizakinkz.bsky.social @barneysaltzberg.bsky.social @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ahoy! If you’ve in the Denver area, I hope you’ll come out and have a kraken good time at the farmers market this Sunday! Get some swag (and vegetables ?) and support a local indie bookstore!
August 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Ahoy! If you’ve in the Denver area, I hope you’ll come out and have a kraken good time at the farmers market this Sunday! Get some swag (and vegetables ?) and support a local indie bookstore!
Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of YA Immortal Consequences, in which six competitive souls stuck in purgatory become “unfortunate acquaintances” as they investigate corrosive shadow magic in their school. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/shel...
August 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of YA Immortal Consequences, in which six competitive souls stuck in purgatory become “unfortunate acquaintances” as they investigate corrosive shadow magic in their school. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/shel...
Today on the blog: July’s book of the month, the captivating, kirigami-based picture book, THE PAPER BRIDGE. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/july...
July 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Today on the blog: July’s book of the month, the captivating, kirigami-based picture book, THE PAPER BRIDGE. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/july...
Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review of the enchanting Millie Fleur Saves the Night, a not-to-be-missed follow up to bestselling Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden, in which Millie Fleur encourages her neighbors in Garden Glen to be friends of the Dark. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/shel...
July 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review of the enchanting Millie Fleur Saves the Night, a not-to-be-missed follow up to bestselling Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden, in which Millie Fleur encourages her neighbors in Garden Glen to be friends of the Dark. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/shel...
Today on the blog: July recommendations feature 6 terrific picture books! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/july... @jesshgn.bsky.social @matthewburgessj.bsky.social @rebeccaglevington.bsky.social @rahele.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today on the blog: July recommendations feature 6 terrific picture books! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/july... @jesshgn.bsky.social @matthewburgessj.bsky.social @rebeccaglevington.bsky.social @rahele.bsky.social
Today on the blog: June’s Book of the Month is JIM! SIX TRUE STORIES ABOUT ONE GREAT ARTIST: JAMES MARSHALL, creatively written and illustrated by Jerrold Connors. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/06/june...
June 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Today on the blog: June’s Book of the Month is JIM! SIX TRUE STORIES ABOUT ONE GREAT ARTIST: JAMES MARSHALL, creatively written and illustrated by Jerrold Connors. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/06/june...
Today on the blog: Dream for the Land movingly portrays one child's experience farming in the drought-stricken Southwestern U.S. while eloquently bringing hope in the form of the wish-granting horned toad. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/06/shel...
June 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Today on the blog: Dream for the Land movingly portrays one child's experience farming in the drought-stricken Southwestern U.S. while eloquently bringing hope in the form of the wish-granting horned toad. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/06/shel...
Today on the blog: May recommendations feature 6 terrific picture books! @picturebookgold.bsky.social lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/may-...
May 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Today on the blog: May recommendations feature 6 terrific picture books! @picturebookgold.bsky.social lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/may-...
Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review of Hurricane, Jason Chin's gripping look at these powerful storms, as well as the importance of weather monitoring, and specifically hurricane science, to keep residents safe. @picturebookgold.bsky.social lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/shel...
May 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review of Hurricane, Jason Chin's gripping look at these powerful storms, as well as the importance of weather monitoring, and specifically hurricane science, to keep residents safe. @picturebookgold.bsky.social lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/shel...
Today on the blog: two distinctive picture book biographies illustrated by Lauren Soloy. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/mays...
May 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Today on the blog: two distinctive picture book biographies illustrated by Lauren Soloy. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/mays...
Put another copy of June Moon in the wee free library, just in time for warm summer evenings!
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May 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Put another copy of June Moon in the wee free library, just in time for warm summer evenings!
@picturebookgold.bsky.social
@picturebookgold.bsky.social
Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of I Come from Another Galaxy, a picture book using humor, heart, and a healthy dose of cuteness to beautifully illustrate how space-traveling Earthling James finds things very different in outer space. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/shel...
May 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of I Come from Another Galaxy, a picture book using humor, heart, and a healthy dose of cuteness to beautifully illustrate how space-traveling Earthling James finds things very different in outer space. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/shel...
Today on the blog: April’s Book of the Month, A UNIVERSE OF RAINBOWS lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
April 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Today on the blog: April’s Book of the Month, A UNIVERSE OF RAINBOWS lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review of Never Thought I'd End Up Here, the story of a Los Angeles-born, ex-model who is sent to China to learn Mandarin--with her now-extremely handsome childhood nemesis. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/shel...
April 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review of Never Thought I'd End Up Here, the story of a Los Angeles-born, ex-model who is sent to China to learn Mandarin--with her now-extremely handsome childhood nemesis. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/shel...