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Two for the price of one review

Frog Meets Dog: An Acorn Book (A Frog and Dog Book #1 by Janee Trasler 

Sadiq and the Desert Star by Siman Nurrali,

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Books that grab the young reader are always a treat to read. You never know what you might find. However, the adult reader actually might miss things that the child reader will enjoy. Therefore, two books that had a great start, but fell short for me, is the subject of this review. This very easy reader by Janee Trasler (Frog Meets Dog: An Acorn Book (A Frog and Dog Book #1) is good for the just starting out sight reader. However, the story itself is weak. All the Dog wants to do is play with the Frogs. But the frogs are […]

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10/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:431 |

Dealing with those pesky feelings

This Makes me Jealous by Courtney Carbone

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On a five-minute break at work the other day, I looked at the received books that were to go to the children’s floor and the back cover of this book was facing me as well as oddly interesting. Turning it over I found This Makes me Jealous with a very upset young lady on the cover. What pray tell, Courtney Carbone (author of said book) is making our young friend so cross? What it is, is the new girl, Amy, at school. She comes in the middle of our narrators show and tell. She later scores a goal off our […]

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9/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:373 |

If My Life Was a Story it would have a better sound track….

If This Were a Story by Beth Turley

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#cbr11bingo #SummerRead If This Were a Story looks at anxiety within a modern setting. Perhaps the issues are too easily solved by the end of the book, but it is an over good first novel for the 8 to 10 crowd. Hannah is a pre-junior high student trying to deal with issues even the adults do not always understand: bullies, fighting parents, friends growing apart and school work. Her way of coping is to ignore much of what is going on, keeping her head down, not talking to the school counselor and worrying internally. The only friend who does seem […]

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8/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:324 |

I love that I got to read two good books and get to tell y’all about them

Real Friends by Shannon Hale

Sunny Side Up by Jennifer Holmes

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#cbr11bingo  #ILoveThis   (Warning long review) This is the second time I have read Real Friends by Shannon Hale. And it is still as good, if not better this time around. The great thing about this newer generation of graphic novels is that they are so much more relatable than they used to be. Of course, there is still the stigma that they are “just comics” but even “back in the day” they were so much more than that. Books like Shannon Hale, Jennifer Holm or Raina Telgemeier are novels that give the story of “fitting in” or “trying to overcome […]

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7/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:277 |

No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way

I'll Be There For You: The One About Friends by Kelsey Miller

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I’m old enough that I watched Friends when it first aired, although I don’t remember watching the first episode. I was 13 or 14 at the time, and that was some Not Great, Bob time in our household, so a show that was that funny and that escapist was exactly what I needed. It saw me through my early adolescence, into university, until I caught up with where they started – my early twenties – just as their story was ending. But Friends didn’t go away, not only because it was popular and so many people I knew watched it, […]

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6/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

…You’re There For Me Too

I'll Be There for You: The One About Friends by Kelsey Miller

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I remember the first time I watched Friends.  I was about 13 years old, and staying over night at my grandparents’ house, and I was bored.  This is the set of grandparents who had not one toy in their house, and when my sister and I would go over to visit, we were allowed to play with the one pair of binoculars and a cabinet full of Tupperware.  It was breathtakingly dull.  I don’t know why I was allowed to watch TV unsupervised, but Friends came on and I sat and watched the episode enthralled- it was The One With […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

A story for book and bear lovers!

Bearnard’s Book by Deborah Underwood

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Bearnard’s Book is a bit obvious to the adult reader what Bearnard’s book is going to be about, but Deborah Underwood draws the reader into the story showing the things it might be about. When Bearnard researches books about bears he learns they float, have porridge stolen and are messy. But Bearnard is not able to float (he is a bit afraid to actually) and he does love his porridge, so he just could not deal with it stolen, and well Bearnard is very much not a messy bear. With the help of his friend, Gertie (a duck), he learns […]

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12/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:484 |

Two more books that will tie up your day with reading

Making a Friend and Amy is Famous. by Tammi Sauer and Barbara Bottner

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Making a Friend is a clever pun. As Beaver is good at making a lot of things (slides, stripy socks, a lodge) but he is not good at making friends. Oh, he tries, but it never works out as he hopes. Though I would say the others are not really appreciating the attempts. A skunk should appreciate flowers (who does not like flowers?) and the why is the porcupine sad over the popped balloons? But yes, waking owl during the day is a bit more than a little inconsiderate.  But when Beaver meets Raccoon (and with a little help from […]

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12/27/2018 's CBR10 Review No:479 |


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