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 [...]
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
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
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Book Reviews,
Fiction,
Picture & Board Books
Forgive me for using the book jacket description for Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement by Irene Spencer. I am so backlogged in the number of reviews I need to write and I’m finding that often it is the summary that slows me down. When I sat down to begin to [...]
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October 12th, 2010
Tags: A-D Title, female author, Memoir/Biography, Non-Fiction, polygamy, published 2009, Publisher: Center Street, Q-T Author
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Book Reviews,
Memoir/Biography,
Nonfiction
I really really wanted to do a video review with my two boys reading Dinosaur vs. Bedtime by Bob Shea so you would get an idea of how high energy Bob Shea’s books are. But sadly, I don’t have access to a camera at the moment. I could wait yes, but I just couldn’t. Yesterday [...]