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Do Children Prefer to Read About Food More Than Fairies?

The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay

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This one’s a little bit nostalgic for me. The Magic Pudding turned 100 this year! For those of you who are not familiar, The Magic Pudding, both written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay, is probably neck and neck with May Gibbs’ Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie as the most famous example of classic Australian children’s literature. I think you would be unlikely to find a primary school library that doesn’t carry a copy. The story starts with Bunyip Bluegum, a young koala who’s off to find his way in the world. He’s been living with his Uncle Wattleberry, but as […]

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10/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:28 |

Down the Yellow-Brick Road

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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“Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stores fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.” – L. Frank Baum

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7/7/2017 's CBR9 Review No:19 |

Wolves at the Door

The Wolves Chronicles by Joan Aiken

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There are actually 12 books in the Wolves Chronicles, but when I was a kid I only read six of them, and these were the six that I recently reread and am reviewing: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Black Hearts in Battersea, Nightbirds on Nantucket, The Stolen Lake, The Cuckoo Tree, and Dido and Pa. The series takes place in alternate timeline in 1800s England (in this timeline, James II was never deposed in the Glorious Revolution, and so throughout the books his descendants sit on the throne of England. The other main difference is the number of wolves in […]

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6/4/2017 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

A Palate Cleanser

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

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I read Charlotte’s Web a few weeks ago, just for fun. I wasn’t going to review it, but this week I felt like writing a review of something. . . just nice. Charlotte’s Web is just about the nicest book in the world. If you’ve never read it, it’s the story of a pig, Wilbur, the runt of the litter. He’s saved by the farmer’s daughter, Fern, and eventually goes to live on the farm of her uncle, Homer Zuckerman. There, he meets the spider Charlotte and they become friends. When they learn that Zuckerman plans to butcher Wilbur that […]

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11/9/2016 's CBR8 Review No:49 |

Man, I hope it’s not aliens

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

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I grabbed this audiobook on the way to the checkout counter at my library, and I’m glad I did.  It made much more sense than the last audiobook I listened to, so it was a nice change.  Plus, it was read by Del Roy, so it was like grandpa was telling me a story!  This book has been making the rounds and has some notoriety in the children’s book world, despite being very long for a children’s book (over 400 pages!)   We first meet Reynie Muldoon in an orphanage.  Reynie is a very gifted and intelligent 11 year-old boy […]

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5/16/2016 's CBR8 Review No:10 |

The review in which I weep and fulfill all your baby shower shopping needs

You Are My I Love You by Maryann Cusimano Love

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My baby and I cleaned off his bookshelf this weekend.  My baby is nearly 8, and his interest in the picture books that I spent hours upon hours reading to him and his big sister has waned in favor of a growing number of graphic novels and chapter books.  He needed more room on his shelf. My heart broke a little (read: a lot) when he handed me You Are My I Love You and said that it was time to pack it away.  It’s lovingly saved for future grandbabies, but I can’t believe our picture book time has passed. […]

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4/14/2016 's CBR8 Review No:12 |

A Different Look at Art

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

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It was really hard for me to turn off my teacher brain while reading Blue Balliett’s Chasing Vermeer. The book’s intended audience is middle-grade readers, and while I think the me of that age would have been delighted with this book (it would have appealed to my snootiest, inner-art-snob instincts), 33-year-old me had a hard time getting into it. I kept looking at it from a “Would I want to teach this?” perspective, rather than from “Am I enjoying reading this?” I don’t know that I did.   Balliett does a terrific job of bringing alive the setting. I loved […]

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3/28/2016 's CBR8 Review No:8 |

Author/Illustrators are kind of cheating, taking all that talent up, don’t you think?

The Most Magnificant Thing; Over-Scheduled Andrew by Ashley Spires

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NetGalley introduced me to the work of Ashley Spires this week, and, if you haven’t read any of her picture books, you’re going to be thanking them as much as I am.  Spires is both author and illustrator of The Most Magnificent Thing and Over-Scheduled Andrew, as well as many other books.  The illustrations are simple – mostly penciled backgrounds, with the colorful characters and all the action in the foreground – but also really expressive. The young inventor in  The Most Magnificent Thing, for example, goes from frustrated to joyous, and back again, and the pictures really show her […]

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1/30/2016 's CBR8 Review No:4 |


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