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The Velveteen Rabbit, Unanticipated Puppet Gore, and The Stages of Grief

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

March 25, 2023 by Flimflamingo 3 Comments

The thing about Grady Hendrix novels is that I read them without bothering to read the synopses anymore. It is enough for me to see his name on the cover when Quirk Books posts about an upcoming release or I’m on my Netgalley and a new title of his pops up on my available ARCs. To me, he is a known quantity. The books of his I haven’t read are ones that I just haven’t made time for. He is, to me, a guaranteed book […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Children, Death, exorcism, ghosts, grady hendrix, grief, Haunted, How to Sell a Haunted House, parents, puppets

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Children, Death, exorcism, ghosts, grady hendrix, grief, Haunted, How to Sell a Haunted House, parents, puppets ·
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Real villains

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

December 19, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

As of this writing/posting of the review for The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill I am only halfway through. I published before finishing as I had some ideas I wanted to put down as I was/am not completely sure why this book has critics excited. It is terribly slow, and the real action does not start to take place until the middle of the book. And then, when things are about to finally happen, the orphan that meets the Ogress is asleep with […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: Children, family, Fantasy & Magic, friendship, Kelly Barnhill, monsters, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Ogres/Ogress, Orphans & Foster Homes, siblings, Social Themes, Values & Virtues

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:611 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: Children, family, Fantasy & Magic, friendship, Kelly Barnhill, monsters, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Ogres/Ogress, Orphans & Foster Homes, siblings, Social Themes, Values & Virtues ·
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We are the World

Our World: Italy by Francesca Di Marzo

Our World: Mexico by Cynthia Harmony

Our World: Brazil by Ana Siqueira

Our World: India by Meera Sriram

November 7, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Our World: Italy by Francesca Di Marzo, Our World: Mexico by Cynthia Harmony, Our World: Brazil by Ana Siqueira and Our World: India by Meera Sriram have two things in common. The first, they are awesome books and second, they are about the world aimed at the young reader/listener.  Some are already published, while others are coming within the next few months. The stories follow the culture, language and more in a small format. The authors and illustrators (while the illustrations are similar to each […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ana Matsusaki, Ana Siqueira, Brazil, Children, Claudia Navarro, Cynthia Harmony, Francesca Di Marzo, India, Italy, Meera Sriram, mexico, Naida Mazzenga, Neethi, travel, world

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:548 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ana Matsusaki, Ana Siqueira, Brazil, Children, Claudia Navarro, Cynthia Harmony, Francesca Di Marzo, India, Italy, Meera Sriram, mexico, Naida Mazzenga, Neethi, travel, world ·
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D is not just for Dog any more.

D Is for Drool: My Monster Alphabet by Amanda Noll

January 3, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

D Is for Drool: My Monster Alphabet is from the I Need My Monster series.  The lead singers are Amanda Noll and Shari Dash Greenspan with Howard McWilliam on illustrations. We the reader find out that T is for Tentacles, D is for Drool, C is for Claws, and each lyrical letter gets its own monster worded page. Or could share the page but gets its own spot as the parade of monsters walk by to help the young child of the book fall asleep. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Alphabet, Amanda Noll, Children, Howard McWilliam, I Need My Monster, monsters, Shari Dash Greenspan, sleep

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Alphabet, Amanda Noll, Children, Howard McWilliam, I Need My Monster, monsters, Shari Dash Greenspan, sleep ·
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I can see a better time When all our dreams come true

The Stonekeeper's Curse by Kazu Kibuishi

December 14, 2021 by esme 2 Comments

Amazingly, I only discovered that I could download graphic novels to my library app a few weeks ago, and my son and I have been tearing through some pretty good ones since then. He mentioned that they read the first book in the Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi, The Stonekeeper, at school, so we sought the second one. Thus, I went into reading this book with an 8 year old’s synopsis of the first book. Briefly, Emily has inherited a stone amulet that confers power, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: #fantasy, Children, family, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Kazu Kibuishi

esme's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: #fantasy, Children, family, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Kazu Kibuishi ·
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Do you mind giving me notice when the Apocalypse is about to hit? I need to arrange for a babysitter. Thanks!

Swashbucklers by Dan Hanks

November 10, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Yes, there are a lot of plot point holes and flowing issues and missing information in Dan Hanks novel, Swashbucklers. But (pause) I do not care. This was a funny, easy to read, but need to give a bit of attention to, warped ride. Part fantasy, part adventure, part horror, and a lot of humor cover the pages of this novel. Our hero (question mark) Cisco comes back to his hometown 30-odd years after that Halloween and the “gas leak” which he knows was not […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Children, Dan Hanks, family, friendship, paranormal, parents

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:374 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Children, Dan Hanks, family, friendship, paranormal, parents ·
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