Reviews on A Wrung Sponge

Babies/Toddlers

 All the Colors of the Earth  by Shelia Hamanaka. Morrow Junior Books, 1994.

 Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers. Harcourt, 2001.

 Global Babies  by the Global Fund for Children. Charlesbridge Publishing, 2007.

Beginning Readers

Bob Books, Bobby Lynn Maslen & John R. Maslen 

Bear on a Bike, Stella Blackstone, illustrated by Debbie Harter. Bearfoot Books, 2002.

Dick and Jane; Now We Read Zerna Sharp and Harry B. Johnston

Flower Garden, Eve Bunting, , illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt. Voyager Books, Harcourt Inc., 1994.

The Stories Julian Tells, Ann Cameron,  illustrated by Ann Strugnell. Knopf, 1981.

Picture Books

Across the Alley by Richard Michelson

Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield

The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring by Lucille Clifton

The Chicken Chaising Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington

Green as a Bean by Karla Kushin

Happy Birthday Jamela! by Niki Daly

Hush Little Baby by Brian Pinkney

Flower Garden by Eve Bunting

In the Small, Small Night by Jane Kurtz

Let It Shine by Ashley Bryan

Lissy's Friends by Grace Lin

Little Skink's Tail by Janet Halfmann

Motherbridge of Love, Anonymous, illustrated by Josée Masse

Summery Saturday Morning by Margaret Mahy

This Little Light of Mine by E. B. Lewis

Middle Grade Fiction

Elijah of Buxton, by Christopher Paul Curtis

Young Adult Fiction

145th Street Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers 

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes

A Drowned Maiden's Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz 

The House of Djinn by Suzanne Fisher Staples

Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson

Memories of Sun; Stories of Africa and America. Edited by Jane Kurtz.

Un Lun Dun by China Mieville

Unseen Companion by Denise Gosliner Orenstein

Folklore

Head, Body, Legs by Won Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert

The Hunterman and the Crocodile by Baba Wague Diakite

Little Brown Jay by Elizabeth Claire

Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile by Won Ldy Paye

One City, Two Brothers by Chris Smith

Six Fools, by Zora Neale Hurston

Poetry

Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color, poems by Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson

Here's a Little Poem, by Jane Yolan and Andrew Fusek Peters

Native American Poems and Songs of Thanksgiving, Joseph Bruchac

When Gorilla Goes Walking, Nikki Grimes

Biography

Amelia to Zora: Twenty Six Women Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee

Hiromi's Hands by Lynne Barasch

Su Dongpo by Demi

Nonfiction

Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs and Stories by Charlemae Hill Rollins

The Great Circle: A History of the First Nations by Neil Philip

Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill

Now Is Your Time by Walter Dean Myers

Skin Again by bell hooks

Stink Bugs and Other True Bugs by Meish Goldish

Teeth by Sneed B. Collard, III

We All Went on Safari by Laurie Krebs

Wings by Sneed B. Collard, III

Adult