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A heartwarming story about poop

I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story by Mark Pett

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You might not want to recommend this book out loud in a group of mixed company as you will get a few looks, giggles, and teasing. I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story is your “kid eats an odd food, is afraid he will be teased like (you will learn as we go along) his ex-best friend, and the lesson he learns about being himself.”  This time it is just with a dung beetle and other creatures. There is kid humor, and at the end […]

Cockle your own Doo

Crow of His Own by Megan Dowd Lambert

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The main reason I enjoyed A Crow of His Own is that there is the theme of being yourself but not with a unicorn. This time Megan Dowd Lambert’s rooster, Clyde, has to fill the shoes of the great Larry. But there is no way he could as he just keeps embarrassing himself, and the other farm animals will not give him a chance to find out who he is. That is, expect for one goose, who knows what to say and do. Overall the […]

One Odd Dog to Go

Odd Dog Out by Rob Biddulph

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This weekend was a weekend filled with picture book reading, three graphic novels, a trip to drop the nephew off at his father’s and rewatching of the movie Coco (if you have not seen it, LOTS OF TISSUES required). In other words, a normal weekend that had a little bit of everything to fit the “at the moment” mood. And one of those moods was Odd. I have been putting off the picture book Odd Dog Out since I first found the reader copy. I […]

Three might be company, but four is one too many

Just Jamie by Terri Libenson

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Terri Libenson has several middle-school novels in her Emmie & Friends series. First we saw Invisible Emmie, then Positively Izzy and now we have Just Jamie. And while each book ties into the others, each is a standalone story as well. Done in a slightly nontraditional graphic novel format, Libenson creates a slightly idealistic (things are wrapped up nicely, certain convenient events happen to move the story along) but also a realistic view of Middle School. Jamie has her group of friends. Three of them […]



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