Like many children's book bloggers, Dawn Mooney is a mom and her favorite test audience is made up of her three kids. When she writes for the group blog 5 Minutes for Books, you can bet the selected stories have gotten a thumb's up from some very discerning critics. Dawn's also a former preschool teacher, a perspective that we're sure …

I get to feature a fellow Arizonan today. Roberta Gibson's a scientist when she's not book blogging over at Wrapped in Foil. She's judging for us in nonfiction for tweens and teens this year, and she's provided a handy-dandy directory of all her reviews in this genre so far. Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen …

Today's featured blog gives us a bunch of bonbons — short and sweet — and all Middle Grade Fiction. Karen Yingling organizes her blog, Ms. Yingling Reads, into handy categories such as adventure, history, fantasy or humor. I first heard of her a couple years ago when she emailed my husband at his blog to ask if he could recommend …