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Busy Busy

I'm Very Busy: A (Nearly Forgotten) Birthday Book by Oliver Jeffers

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An odd way to start a review is to say I did not really care for I’m Very Busy: A (Nearly Forgotten) Birthday Book by Oliver Jeffers. If you did not like something why take the time to write about it? Honestly I thought that I wouldn’t until I got to thinking about if I had a customer looking for a birthday book that was a bit goofy and different, but has some common elements too, what could I give them? Well, Jeffers book was […]

Did you know that you can read the dictionary?

The Dictionary Story. by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston

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Oliver Jeffers has created another story that is perfectly their style of writing and illustrations and Sam Winston joins the creativity to add to the party in The Dictionary Story.  While recently having become available, I did read via an online reader copy.  This time things are not what they seem at first glance. You think (or at least I did) that the book would be dictionaries and how they work. However, the author decides that to make the dictionary upset that, unlike the other […]

You should warn a guy first…

Begin Again by Oliver Jeffers

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As I do most every trip to Target, I swung through the books, including the children’s books (hope to be a dad someday soon and wanna have books ready to go) and stumbled across this one. The cover caught me just out of the corner of my eye as I was passing by, so I read a couple pages and bought it based on that sampling. What I didn’t realize was that Target had sort of miscategorized the book; Jeffers had intended this not so […]

Warmth in its forms

What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman

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I am just going to say that this awesome book of poems was created by Neil Gaiman. They called it, What You Need to Be Warm. And they had a long list of illustrators, some I knew and others were new to me. And then I will say it is about refugees and other displaced people and what images, things, places or people that made them feel warm. And then just gush that this is both the best and worst thing I have read this […]

A few picture book reviews for your entertainment

The Crayons Go Back to School  by Drew Daywalt

Danbi's Favorite Day by Anna Kim

Cooler than Lemonade: A Story about Great Ideas and How They Happen by Jerath Harshita

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Shhhh! I should be working, but it is a day off for most of the people in my area so, I sneaked in a few picture books and reviews as nobody was around to see me be naughty (not even the Big Guy, as he’s in his office working!) The Crayons Go Back to School by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers is a simple story about the crayons new adventure (read via Edelweiss, due mid May 2023). It is the crayons being crayons. The […]

The reviews I forgot to post, part 3!

The Fate of Fausto by Oliver Jeffers

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I love Oliver Jeffers as an author.  I was excited to read this new picture book.  But man, this is DARK!   Fausto is a man who sets off to prove that he is the boss and that everything belongs to him.  He conquers a flower, and a sheep, and a tree.  But that is not enough.  He goes after a field, and a lake, and a mountain, and they all eventually give in.  But the sea, the sea is a different matter.  The sea […]



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