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I cannot be Quiet as Tomie has a new book!

Quiet by Tomie dePaola

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Oh Tomie! Your illustrations are on point, but the story needs to be in a smaller format! I would love to see this in a lap size or even a medium sized board book. But don’t worry, I still love you Mr. D! Quiet by Tomie dePaola is classic dePaola. A grandfather and his grandchildren go out to enjoy the world around them. While the world is busy and chaotic, there is also quiet to enjoy. The combination of spiritual and secular is there. You can feel the Christian background, but also Quiet has a very modern twist too. The […]

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10/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:381 |

What do you do with a girl like Akaraka?

A Kiss For Akaraka by Richard Jackson

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A Kiss For Akaraka is actually a 4.5. This is due to the fact that the only real complaint I have is the name of the character is a little hard to pronounce (even with the father helping, it does not happen until the middle of the story).  However, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the illustrations of E.B. Goodale. The ones that have Akaraka in them especially are probably the best as her form is very unique each time and is fluid. She always has a human form but is not always human. Richard Jackson’s story is an odd combination of […]

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10/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:374 |

Find your inner superheroine

Heroine Complex, Heroine Worship, Heroine's Journey by Sarah Kuhn

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SPOILER WARNING! As I’m reviewing all three books in a trilogy, it’s going to be difficult for me to discuss the books without minor spoilers, especially in books 2 and 3, as they naturally follow on from and develop stuff that’s gone before in the series. So if you want to approach this series entirely spoiler free – you may just want to read the synopsis for book 1. #CBR10Bingo: Heroine Complex: So it begins Heroine Complex – 4.5 stars Evie Tanaka is the long-suffering and ever patient personal assistant to Aveda Jupiter, San Francisco’s favourite superheroine. Friends from girlhood (when Aveda was still Annie […]

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9/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:82 |

Classical and modern take on love and children in a new picture book

Love You More by Gary Urda

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Love You More is about a couple of parents telling their child how much they love them and what they have learned from loving their child. The parents thought they knew true love with each other, but their child has taken them to another level of love. In Love You More we see the child grow as the parents take a modern take about love and how the family now centers around the love for the child. Gary Urda has taken from his own experiences with his three sons and what they meant (and mean) to him. Jennifer A. Bell […]

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9/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:334 |

The list: Publishers Weekly The Most Anticipated Children’s and YA Books of Fall 2018 has a bunch and here is one

Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo

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Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo is my #CBR10bingo on a list book. It is on the Publishers Weekly The Most Anticipated Children’s and YA Books of Fall 2018 While I give this book a five there were a few plot holes for me. (Spoiler) Louisiana never sees it is wrong to steal from the vending machine (or worse to get her friend to do it for her). She might be about 10 years old in the late 1970’s and her Granny might not be the most modern person and may not have a phone, but you would think she […]

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9/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:329 |

#CBR10Bingo: Birthday – All the Crooked Saints

All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

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#CBR10 Bingo: Birthday (Ms Stiefvater’s birthday is November 11th) From Goodreads, because it sums it up nicely: Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle. Here is a thing everyone fears: What it takes to get one. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are […]

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9/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:65 |

Takes Two to Make a Tango

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richards

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This is my Fahrenheit 451. To this day I have a hard time understanding the minds of people who ban and challenge books. You do not like it? Great. There are another 4 billion books out there. Find one you do like. But do not tell me I cannot read a book. Justin Richards, Peter Parnell and Henry Cole came together to make And Tango Makes Three. The story is a true story about two penguins in the New York Central Zoo. These two love birds built a nest together and raised a chick. But they were not your traditional […]

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8/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:324 |

#CBR10 Bingo: Listicles – A Million Junes

A Million Junes by Emily Henry

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#CBR10Bingo: Listicles. From FYA’s “Swoony YA books for your next Beach Vacation” From Goodreads: Romeo and Juliet meets One Hundred Years of Solitude in Emily Henry’s brilliant follow-up to The Love That Split the World, about the daughter and son of two long-feuding families who fall in love while trying to uncover the truth about the strange magic and harrowing curse that has plagued their bloodlines for generations.  In their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, the O’Donnells and the Angerts have mythic legacies. But for all the tall tales they weave, both founding families are tight-lipped about what caused the century-old rift between them, except […]

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8/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:59 |


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