Billie Lou Damon

Jan 10, 2025 | sunjournal.com | Billie Lou Damon

The Usborne Official Spy’s GuidebookBy UsborneIllustrated by Colin KingThe Usborne Official Spy’s Guidebook is a Junior Non-Fiction reference for all the things you need to be a successful spy. Colorfully illustrated, it includes information about passing secret messages, hiding secret messages, stalking, disguises, spy language, spy rings, how to make vanishing messages, etc.

Dec 12, 2024 | sunjournal.com | Billie Lou Damon

The Outsmarters By Deborah EllisThis is definitely a Middle School/Young Adult read, full of shock and awe, The Outsmarters is a realistic fiction novel published in 2024. While reading this selection, I found myself feeling angry, sad, bewildered, and even happy at times. Some parts were ironically funny!Kate is a 12-year-old, very bright, middle school student, and has been expelled from school because of anger issues.

Oct 31, 2024 | sunjournal.com | Billie Lou Damon

BIG is a children’s picture book with 3 major literary awards:  National Book Award Finalist, The Caldecott Medal for illustrations, and a Coretta Scott King Honor Award for peace, non-violent social change and brotherhood. Uniquely  illustrated by the author in soft shades of pink, purple, gray and brown, BIG has very few words; all of them important to the story and none, wasteful. Some of the events in the story are related to the author’s life.

Sep 13, 2024 | sunjournal.com | Eleanor Estes |Billie Lou Damon

The Hundred Dresses By Eleanor Estes Illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, Caldecott MedalistThe Hundred Dresses is a Junior Fiction, short, 78-page read with black and white illustrations. Some editions have color tinted illustrations. Although it was published in 1944, it is a new, worthy read for those who have not read it. In 1945 it received a Newberry Honor, and in 2007 the National Education Association listed it as one of the Top 100 Books for Children.

Sep 12, 2024 | sunjournal.com | Eleanor Estes |Billie Lou Damon

The Hundred Dresses By Eleanor Estes Illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, Caldecott MedalistThe Hundred Dresses is a Junior Fiction, short, 78-page read with black and white illustrations. Some editions have color tinted illustrations. Although it was published in 1944, it is a new, worthy read for those who have not read it. In 1945 it received a Newberry Honor, and in 2007 the National Education Association listed it as one of the Top 100 Books for Children.