Hello everyone and welcome to Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2018, The Round Up where we’ll be talking about our highlights (and lowlights) of our Kid Lit year. As always, we’ve read some fantastic books and series, some of which we will be continuing into 2019. Please find below all the books we read and the links to my reviews. For Chrissi’s reviews the link will be at the bottom of each original post.
JANUARY – The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader -C.S. Lewis
MARCH – The Girl Of Ink And Stars- Kiran Millwood Hargrave
APRIL- Ratburger- David Walliams
MAY – The Wide Window (A Series Of Unfortunate Events #3)-Lemony Snicket
JUNE- The Face On The Milk Carton-Caroline B. Cooney
JULY – Murder Most Unladylike- Robin Stevens
AUGUST- The Creakers- Tom Fletcher
SEPTEMBER – Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing -Judy Blume
OCTOBER- Nightbirds on Nantucket (The Wolves Chronicles #3)- Joan Aiken
NOVEMBER – Number The Stars- Lois Lowry
DECEMBER- Time Travelling With A Hamster- Ross Welford
So, in the style of the “Talking About…” reviews we normally do, we thought we’d answer a quick few questions about our year in Kid-Lit blogging.
1) What was your favorite Kid-Lit book of 2018 and why?BETH: This is such an easy one for me! It would be Matilda by Roald Dahl. It was a childhood favorite of mine and each time I re-read it I fall more and more in love with it. Sorry other kid-lit authors on this list – it was always going to be a no-brainer with the king that is Roald Dahl.CHRISSI: It has to be the legendary Matilda. It’s a wonderful story that is one of my all time favourites. I don’t think many will ever beat it. I found out recently that my 6 year old nephew loves Matilda which is amazing!2) What was your least favorite Kid-Lit book of 2018 and why?BETH: This is so tough but I would have to pick something that might be controversial – The Girl Of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. It was so gorgeously written but unfortunately I just didn’t connect with it as much as I was hoping to.CHRISSI: The Voyage of The Dawn Treaderby C.S. Lewis. I wasn’t the biggest fan of it, if I’m honest. I don’t recall reading this one as a child and I wouldn’t be surprised if I started it and gave up! Young Chrissi had no problems DNF-ing books.3) What was the Kid-Lit book of 2018 that surprised you the most?BETH: Perhaps The Face On The Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney? I was eagerly anticipating this book as both Chrissi and I were huge Cooney fans back when she wrote Point Horror. However, I believe we were both a bit disappointed with this particular offering and unfortunately, it surprised us in a bad way. 😦CHRISSI: I have to agree with Beth. I had such high expectations for The Face On The Milk Carton but I really did find it to be a quite unremarkable read which was a shame.4) Have you been inspired to read any other books from a Kid-Lit author of 2018?BETH: Most definitely, from Tom Fletcher. I was really excited to read something from him as I had heard such great things about his children’s books. The Creakers was everything I had anticipated and who knows, perhaps there will be something else on our Kid-Lit list for 2019 from him?CHRISSI: Ooh yes. I want to read more from Tom Fletcher and David Walliams for sure. I’m loving that young children (and young at heart adults!) have so many wonderful authors out there to explore.For anyone who reads these posts, thank you so much for your continued support, we love doing this challenge and hope to continue it indefinitely. Coming on January 2nd – the big reveal for Kid-Lit 2019! Which titles made it this year? And which titles are we going to have to do er…. another year?!
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