by George from BooksReview | Feb 1, 2026 | Book Reviews
My 13-year-old got me into anime. Not the other way around. She started drawing anime characters in fifth grade, and one night she asked if we could watch Demon Slayer together. I figured it was a cartoon. Twenty minutes in, a demon ripped someone’s head off....
by George from BooksReview | Jan 14, 2026 | Book Reviews
My son was three when he started the bedtime stalling routine. One more story. One more glass of water. One more trip to check if the dog was sleeping. Goodnight Already! by Jory John felt like someone had been watching our house through the window. Bear wants to...
by George from BooksReview | Jan 9, 2026 | Book Reviews
My kids watched The Gruffalo animation so many times I can still hear James Corden’s Mouse voice in my head. We found it on BBC around Christmas one year, and it became part of the rotation alongside the book. The 27-minute film holds up. It’s faithful to...
by George from BooksReview | Dec 11, 2025 | Book Reviews
My daughter wore this book out. She was about two when we got it, and for months it was the first thing she grabbed off the shelf. Not for the story (there isn’t one), but for the game. Every page is a hunt, and she treated it like a competition against herself....
by George from BooksReview | Dec 8, 2025 | Book Reviews
Jealousy is one of those things you can’t explain to a two-year-old. You can’t sit them down and talk through the concept. But you can read them a book where a mouse feels left out because her best friend is playing with someone else, and they get it...
by George from BooksReview | Nov 18, 2025 | Book Reviews
My daughter could recite The Gruffalo before she could read. The rhymes stuck in her head the way song lyrics do. “He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.” She’d say it at dinner, in the car, to strangers...
