I remember Love You Hate You Miss You by Elizabeth Scott being a good book. Sadly, it has fallen ill to the passage of time. I read it much too long ago and I simply can not remember anything about it. And that my friends is a very sad thing because Elizabeth Scott rocks. I [...]
Well, would you look at that? It’s a post! And not just any post but a book review post! It’s time to brush off the old keyboard and see if I can still call myself a reviewer! Whenever somebody that I know offline would ask me what my favorite read of 2010 was (surprisingly a [...]
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February 23rd, 2011
Tags: Fiction, historical fiction, I-L Title, M-P Author, male author, published 1980's, Pulitzer, Western
Publisher, western
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Adult,
Book Reviews,
Fiction
In Frankie Stein Starts School by Lola M Schaefer and illustrated by Kevan Atteberry, Frankie is different. He certainly doesn’t look like his parents. And he certainly doesn’t act like them either. He’s just a tad too clean cut and non-scary looking. Which happens to make him the scariest Stein of all. Frankie is ready [...]
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October 25th, 2010
Tags: Cybils 2010 picture book nomination, E-H Title, Fiction, Halloween, holidays, published 2010, Publisher: Marshall Cavendish, Q-T Author, woman author
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Book Reviews,
Fiction,
Picture & Board Books
Broom, Zoom! by Caron Lee Cohen, Illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier is a book for the youngest of children. A little witch with a big red pointy hat wants to take a late night flight on a broom but discovers that goblin is using it to sweep up spilled flour. After going back and forth about [...]
Scaredy-Cat, Splat! by Rob Scotton is my first introduction to Splat and I found him so cute that I must go seek out Rob Scotton’s other books featuring the same character. It’s Halloween and Splat is in search of the scariest costume. But no matter what he does or wear, everybody else is scarier than [...]
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October 24th, 2010
Tags: Cybils 2010 picture book nomination, Fiction, Halloween, holidays, male author, published 2010, Publisher: Harper Collins, Q-T Author, Q-T Title
Category:
Book Reviews,
Fiction,
Picture & Board Books