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    A Brand-New Day With Mouse and Mole by Wong Herbert Yee – Review
    Mole has a big problem – all of his clothes have holes in them.   He is very particular about his clothes and doesn’t want to buy anything different from his usual style, even though his friend Mouse encourages him to update his wardrobe.  She laughs at his moth-eaten clothes, but Mole is not amused.  The hole-y pants makes Mouse think of cheese and Mole think...
    by Kerry at September 2nd, 2010 at 08:09 am
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    Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm – Review
    Jennifer Holm is famous for her thick-skinned comic heroine Babymouse, so it is no surprise that Turtle, the eleven-year-old Shirley Temple-hating lead in this story is pretty tough herself.  Turtle is used to life played out at her mother’s whim, so she takes most things in stride and does the best she can with every situation.  It’s 1935, and her mom seems to...
    by Kerry at August 31st, 2010 at 06:08 pm
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    Ballet for Martha by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
    Martha Graham, Aaron Copland, and Isamu Noguchi were three brilliantly creative and hard-working people who worked together over sixty-five years ago to produce one of most famous dance performances in American history, Appalachian Spring.  This is the story of how the trio brought this story of America to life after a year of rewriting, replaying, and rehearsing –...
    by Kerry at August 27th, 2010 at 09:08 am
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    Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham – Review
    From the first delicate picture of a young girl holding a steaming bowl of sweet tea, alone on a dirt road in the cold early morning in a village in India, this book captivates with art and words that work together to bring this tale of love and hope to life.  Tashi is too young to help her mother work in the tea fields, but old enough to know that her mother is growing...
    by Kerry at July 29th, 2010 at 02:07 pm
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    Blue Jay Girl by Sylvia Ross – Review
    Everyone has a different nature, or personality, and eight year old Blue Jay Girl has an adventurous one that makes her popular and exciting to the other girls in her tribe.  She likes to explore the woods around her village, running and playing with the animals, and once, when she was six, she fell into the river when she was chasing dragonflies.  Her aunt almost drowned...
    by Kerry at July 8th, 2010 at 09:07 am
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    Emily Windsnap and the Siren’s Secret by Liz Kessler – Review
    Emily Windsnap is no ordinary girl.  Sure, she has problems with her parents and often has to deal with a mean girl at school, but neither of those troubles makes her any different from other girls.  What makes Emily’s adventures exciting to follow is her ability to change into a mermaid when she gets into water, and afterwards, all kinds of crazy things happen, like...
    by Kerry at June 25th, 2010 at 07:06 am
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    Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary – Review
    Beezus is a strange name for a nine year old girl, but it isn’t really her name after all.  Everyone calls her Beezus because that’s how her little sister Ramona pronounces ‘Beatrice.’  Ramona is a lot of trouble, especially back in the days when this book was written (1955), long before Nintendo and satellite TV were around for entertainment.  She is the...
    by Kerry at June 11th, 2010 at 03:06 pm
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    Instructions by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess – Review
    Neil Gaiman writes books for everyone; even his children’s books are appealing to adults.  This is one of them.  He walks us through a fairy tale adventure that is short but important because it teaches how to get along in the world by treating others like we would want to be treated and trying to understand why other people behave the way they do.   Most of all,...
    by Kerry at June 2nd, 2010 at 03:06 pm
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    It’s Raining Cupcakes by Lisa Schroeder – Review
    Twelve year old Isabel is tired of living in her small town in Oregon.  She wants to travel and try new things, but her mom is afraid of failure and never follows through with anything she does.  Her mom does like to bake, and decides to open a cupcake shop with Isabel and Isabel’s dad’s help.  Throughout the story, Isabel’s mom is trying out new cupcake flavors,...
    by Kerry at May 13th, 2010 at 06:05 pm
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    Dinosaur Hour! by Hitoshi Shioya – Review
    There are over sixty different kinds of dinosaurs in this hilarious comic about dinosaurs gone goofy, wild, and just plain silly.  Each chapter is called a ‘bone’ and shows a variety of these creatures in funny situations.  When some Allosaurus try to attack a Brachiosaurus, the giant beast doesn’t even notice them and smacks them with his huge tail. Dinosaur...
    by Kerry at May 11th, 2010 at 06:05 pm
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