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“It’s way past bedtime o’clock . . . . but somebody can’t sleep.”

Love Monster and the Scary Something by Rachel Bright

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Love Monster and the Scary Something by Rachel Bright stars the Love Monster from 2013’s Love Monster and 2015’s Love Monster and the Last Chocolate and 2014’s Love Monster and the Perfect Present. This time Love Monster is getting ready for bed, but no matter how hard they try, they cannot get to sleep! And as it gets later and later, Love Monster starts to hear sounds. Which, thankfully, can be figured out quickly enough. That is, until that one sound they cannot figure out. […]

The Squirrel inside and the Squabbling Lions or something like that

The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright

The Squirrels Who Squabbled by Rachel Bright

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Rachel Bright and Jim Field have collaborated on several books. The two I have read, The Lion Inside and The Squirrels Who Squabbled are Lesson Books. Still, there is a fun story to go along with it as well. The Lion Inside will be my first review. We have a tiny mouse who has a tiny voice. They want to be big. After all they are tired of being sat on, ignored, stepped on and so forth. But they are also very shy, very nervous […]

What is Better than Mommy and Daddy Love?

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What is better than mommy love? Two books about how awesome moms are (and for good measure one dad, too). My Mommy Medicine given to us by Edwidge Danticat and illustrated by Shannon Wright (due late February 2019) talks about when a little girl wakes up not feeling well she and her mom can do all sorts of things to make her feel better. Sometimes it is hugs, reading, taking naps, drinking hot chocolate or tea, telling stories, dancing and sometimes real medicine. Based on […]



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