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Packs: Strength in Numbers by Hannah Salyer

Share Some Kindness, Bring Some Light by Apryl Stott

Macaroon Mouse the Christmas Eve Adventure by Nancy Brigham

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I cannot help myself. Picture books are fun. They are easy and help me think, “Well by George the III, I just accomplished something!” And these three books are ones that I accomplished. Packs: Strength in Numbers by Hannah Salyer (Rating 4) The book starts off with a simple poem like sentence about the connections of together; then BOOM! Sayler starts with examples of animals and their connections to the theme. By the end of our story, we go back to the simple line of […]

I admit didn’t finish, but you know you’ve a hit when the first 4 pages have nothing horrible about them

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

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I am not sure what to say about Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver that has not already been said. Therefore, I will write about the feelings I had and my “Mary Oliver story.” Right after Oliver passed, the local poetry group did a last-minute event to read some of their favorite Mary Oliver poems, read some of their own poetry and to celebrate Oliver. My story is this was the first time I had heard a poem by her. Or at least, realized […]

Hear the Fearsome War Cry of the River Otter! Ic-yang!

Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson

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Set in rural Devon and written in 1928, this is the life story of Tarka, the river otter, written as an unsentimental biography, from birth to death.  Williamson had an unusual talent of presenting the life of a wild creature just as is.  Well, there are some names, but that is only so that one can distinguish one creature from another.  Otherwise, they are very much not anthropomorphized.   The language, though, is a delight.  It’s not written in a dialect, per se, but rather […]

Damn, son. Be sure to hang on to that candelabra, though.

Malicroix by Henri Bosco

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What a wild ride.  Gothic mysticism is the best way to describe it, I guess.  Although I was unfamiliar with the French writer, he had been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times, so there’s that. The book opens in a straightforward way with a pleasant young man being summoned to the estate of his recently deceased great-uncle.  He is dropped off by carriage in a desolate expanse of fields and wetlands where he is met by a taciturn shepherd sent to escort […]

Buzz buzz and swarm away

Beehive by Jorey Hurley

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At first, I did not like Beehive. It is a larger picture book with just one word (swarm; keep, etc) per page. It is not until the end and the authors note that you actually get “something” that is solid. This tells you why the words that were used are important to bees. This is a page of facts and information that finally make this book more than what should be in a board book. Jorey Hurley’s book most likely will help with sight words […]



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