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The Big Cheese is a Big Wheel

The Big Cheese by Jory John

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There is a new Jory John and Pete Oswald book coming out in early November 2023. And it is a big deal. In fact, you could say it is a big wheel called The Big Cheese. Starting back in 2017 withThe Bad Seed, the themes of the Food Group books are lessons for everyone about personalities, emotions, social themes, and more. When we meet Cheese they are a big deal. They tell us they started life normal enough, but had big plans. And they achieved them. And […]

Feelings? Yes, we have those

The Noise Inside Boys: A Story about Big Feelings by Pete Oswald

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The story within the pages (I am assuming pages, as I read this via an online reader copy) of The Noise Inside Boys: A Story about Big Feelings has been done before. Pete Oswald talks about how we have big feelings and those are legitimate feelings. We follow the youngest of three brothers through the ups and downs of the events that give him his feelings. And see how one can deal with them. It is the illustrations of Oswald that really made things fresh. […]

You’ll be smarter than a cookie

The Smart Cookie (Food Group) by Jory John

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The Smart Cookie (Food Group) by Jory John is not my favorite of the Food Books they and Pete Oswald created. With that said, there is nothing wrong with this picture book, I just feel that like, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series, we have gone to the bakery one too many times. Yet, the story of being yourself, and finding your own way of being creative or clever, is nicely illustrated by Oswald’s fun, silly, colorful, detailed illustrations. The cover tells you […]

Sit back and rest a beat and read about Trick or Treat

Pig the Monster (Pig the Pug) by Aaron Blabey

Gilbert the Ghost by Guido Van Genechten

The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky (With Two Sticker Sheets) by Jory John

If You Ever Meet a Skelton by Rebecca Evans

Poultrygeist by Eric Geron

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One not so little pug named Pig, is a greedy pup. It is Halloween and all he wants to do is to not only get the treats but to get the right treats. And then Pig wants to eat the treats! And if you are stingy with treats, you will smell more than his feet in Pig the Monster (Pig the Pug) by Aaron Blabey. Of course, Pig earns that a dog should not eat a lot of chocolate (after all it can make you, […]

The Cool Crowd

The Cool Bean by Jory John

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The Cool Bean is part of Jory John’s series that includes The Good Egg, The Bad Seed and The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape! (coming in February 2020). The Cool Bean is just like the other stories in this group. There are more than a few puns about being “a cool bean” and bean puns in general. The story is simple: Our narrator used to hang out with a handful of beans in olden times (as long ago as last year), but this year […]

This egg is a little rotten

The Good Egg by Jory John

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Sadly, The Good Egg by Jory John and illustrations by Pete Oswald, is a preachy story about being the “good egg” but then learning to “take care of yourself” and it is okay to “not be perfect.” It is a very modern story that you are going to love or hate. It is in the same vein as the authors other book, The Bad Seed. There is not a lot to say about this book, except the negatives. I am not a fan of the art […]



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