Allow me to introduce myself.

I'm Katie, wife of J, mother of EJ (2) and Hannah (5mos). I have absolutely no qualifications to be writing kids book reviews, aside from my love of reading kid lit.

Now, there are many people who, by virtue of becoming parents, fall into a love of children's literature. That's not where I started. My disease started at my mother's knee. She's a first grade teacher, and has been sharing her finds with me my whole life. Her love of picture books and youth lit was so infectious that my first purchase when I left home for college was "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales."  Every year since I was a junior in high school, my mom has given me a new kid's book for Christmas, and every year it's the gift I anticipate the most.

My goal for this blog is just to share my take on the books we bring home from the library: to crawl, inch by inch, through the stacks as my kids get older. I'm not sponsored by anyone, or driven by any desire other than to a) write (I was an English major and a poetry masters student, but haven't written much since I got married) and b) share any of my new finds with you.

Let's see how it goes!