There’s a reason why our family is a fan of Dan Santat. He has a sense of humor that sits well within our own and a great knack for lovable characters. Sashimi is goofy, awkward, and feels like an outsider. Pretty much like any sixth grader.
What are you READING?
Dr. Bookworm often asks her patients, “What are you reading, right now?”
Unboxing Pride and Prejudice
Which classic book would Belle read?
First Pages: Heartstopper
“Hi”
“Hi”
[Panel of Charlie and Nick staring at each other]
Author Site Extras
Come check out a few children’s book writers and illustrators who make book-related activity pages!
Favorite Recently Published YA Books
What is your favorite YA novel that was published in the last five years?
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembance Day
Each day I still carry her with me. Our sweet Macy Button.
Thank You To My Patients
For my patients and families:
Thank you so much for the honor and privilege of being your pediatrician.
It is with a heavy heart that I need to tell you that I’m leaving Surf City Pediatrics. Truly it has overall been a wonderful experience—joining a work family and creating a community of patient families.
Macy's Bittersweet Sweet 16
I’m sick today. The day before my middle child would have turned sixteen.
First Pages: The House on Mango Street
“We didn’t always live on Mango Street. Before that we lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler. Before Keelier it was Paulina, and before that I can’t remember. But what I remember most is moving a lot. Each time it seemed there’d be more of us. By the time we got to Mango Street we were six—Mama, Papa, Carolos, Kiki, my sister Nenny and me.”
The House on Mango Street ~ Sandra Cisneros
The Skull
The Skull is beautifully rendered in words and illustration. The pauses and subtext are spot on, a tale with an underlying lesson of acceptance and also friendship.
Welcome to the Dark Side: Endings
<SPOILERS> for those of us bookworms who sometimes skip to the ending while still in the middle of the book.
First Pages: The Frog Princess
“Even as a little girl, I had thought that the swamp was a magical place where new lives began and old ones ended, where enemies and heroes weren’t always waht one expected, and where anything could happen, even to a clumsy princess.”
Excerpt from The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker
Rainbow Teen
We officially have a rainbow teen. Not a rainbow baby, not a rainbow child, but a rainbow TEEN.
Doctors' Day 2023
Doctors’ Day 2023
Hey Bruce
10 Word Review:
Bruce trying to nap
While readers control him
Hilarity ensues