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You are invited to a Tea Party for Mr. Pumpkin and his friends

Mr. Pumpkin’s Tea Party by Erin Barker

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I am sorry to say I was disappointed in the story of Mr. Pumpkin’s Tea Party. A child will probably enjoy the counting aspect and enjoy seeing all the goodies and people that are coming to the tea party, but this story has been done before. This is not to say Erin Barker’s book is bad. Far from it. It is a delightful Autumn story. It is great for Halloween without being SPOOKY. But not really spooky-spooky, you know? It is a cozy book. It is a book about friends having a party. There is a feel of the classics. […]

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10/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:401 |

It’s the most wonderful time of year when that day called Halloween comes around

Snowmen at Halloween by Caralyn M. Buehner

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I am not usually a fan of the Snowmen books. I mean, I like them, but can take them or leave them. This time, the Snowmen at Halloween had the Halloween theme a tad forced to make it possible for the snowmen come to life at Halloween. Now, living in New England, I know you can get snow in October (we “old timers” still talk about the storm of 1987), and I have had more than one costume “disappear” under winter jackets, but I would think most kids might not relate to having a Halloween snow fall. Otherwise, if you […]

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9/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:366 |

Ah, the sweet autumnal smell of love. (CBR11 Bingo)

Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell, Faith Erin Hicks

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I was always going to love this book. If there was a book created for me, this would be it. All its missing to make it absolute perfection is a focus on the color purple. Its set in my favorite season, specifically on my personal high holy day (Halloween), featuring an adventure, some unrequited/unacknowledged love, pumpkins, snacks, and a goat on the loose. Seriously, Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks nailed this delightful story of two friends spending their last night at work together before they head off to their own futures, unsure of what that really means. Pumpkinheads reminds […]

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9/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |

Ghoulia is a cute story with charming art, perfect gift to give a young reader next Halloween

Ghoulia by Barbara Contini

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Several years ago, Neil Gaiman suggested celebrating All Hallow’s Read around Halloween.  You celebrate the Halloween season by giving seasonally appropriate books to friends and family.  Either directly about the holiday, or perhaps spooky and scary books that fit this time of year’s mood.  I’ve done this for the past three years now with my girls.  This year was a bit of a challenge for my newly turned seven year old.  She loves Halloween but really, really does not like to be scared.  She is reading at a first grade level so I didn’t want it to be another picture […]

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11/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

An epic tale about the hopelessness of being The Other

Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley

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[BINGO!] I’ve been mulling over this review of Frankenstein for a couple of weeks now and I have so many thoughts and feelings! I’ll first admit that I had never read Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus before this year, and truly believed that the gothic horror story was just the same as James Whale’s Frankenstein movie. And it is not. At all. The same. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley wrote her epic tale about the hopelessness of being The Other, of the misery of the life unwanted, and uncared for. The monster is a miserable, loveless creature who terrifies anyone who encounters him, and this pushes him to become […]

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10/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

I was sad that I didn’t like this more.

Mother Ghost: Nursery Rhymes for Little Monsters by Rachel Kolar, Roland Garrigue

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I was disappointed in this.  I thought I would like more of it, and perhaps I would if I were more caught up on my nursery rhymes.  I recognized some of them, and a few were quite clever, but there were some I couldn’t place. After reading another Halloween book that was more to my taste, this felt a little lacking. We start off in a festive mood with “Boys and Girls, Come Trick-or-Treat,” which is based on “Boys and Girls, Come Out to Play”.  I’ve heard of the original rhyme, but it is not one I know by heart. […]

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10/11/2018 's CBR10 Review No:31 |

Thanks, CBR10 Bingo, for getting me to read a book I normally wouldn’t!

Skeleton for Dinner by Margery Cuyler, Will Terry

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So the book I was going to read for this square is a bit longer than I was expecting, and perhaps more dense, so I “cheated” from my original plan and looked for a children’s book that would work!  As we’re in October, I looked for a Halloween book, because why not? So I came across Skeleton for Dinner by Margery Cuyler, purely because the author happens to live in my state.  So let’s see how it is! I quite like the artwork.  The witches have a lot of detail, and tree looks almost fractal.  The text moves about in […]

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10/11/2018 's CBR10 Review No:30 |

Trick or Treat smell my….yeah not going there…..

Skelly's Halloween by David Martin

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Skelly’s Halloween would be the perfect book for the young Halloween crowd. They will enjoy the silly antics that go along with a sweet story of a skeleton that just wants to go trick-or-treating as he is only awake for this one day. And all he wants to do is to celebrate Halloween. However, he has an accident that just makes him go all to pieces! And well….it takes more than the all the kings horses and kings men to put Skelly back together again. It takes a clever group of well-meaning friends and some clever children to help Skelly […]

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10/11/2018 's CBR10 Review No:382 |


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