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CBR11Bingo: Banned Books and Back to School

A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss, E.G. Keller (Illustrator)

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

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I’ve almost got this thing blacked out! Here are two CBRBingo11 reviews — both books courtesy of my children. CBR11Bingo: Banned Books — A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss, E.G. Keller (Illustrator) I can’t remember who got this for my kids — I want to say it was Caitlin_D, but I might be wrong. The thing is, I have many wonderfully liberal and subversive friends and family who would all jump at the chance to buy my boys a book […]

When Jitterbug meet Pudding

The Someone New. by Jill Twiss

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From the author and illustrator team of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, you get another clever story with a modern twist. E.G. Keller’s signature illustration style mixes with Jill Twiss’s story smoothly in this new picture book, The Someone New. Jitterbug is a chipmunk that likes things to stay the same. If things are new, well she starts to get the jitters something awful. And one day she knows something Brand New is going to […]

Marlon Bundo (Non-Pence version)

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While I cannot compare them directly (I have not read Charlotte and Karen Pence’s book) but by description, reviews and having read Oliver’s book I am confident in saying that John Oliver and team have captured the imitation is the best form of flattery market with their version of the Vice President Pence (or his wife and daughter) book Marlon Bundo’s Day in the Life of the Vice President. While you might not agree with Pence or Oliver views, this is a book that is […]



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