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You might be cool, but you’ll probably never be Have two dinosaurs named after you cool

The Fossil Whisper: How Wendy Sloboda Discovered a Dinosaur by Helaine Becker

June 17, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Kids can do some fair out stuff. Like find fossils of dinosaurs. Well, at least Wendy Sloboda did (the Wendiceratops), and we see how in The Fossil Whisper: How Wendy Sloboda Discovered a Dinosaur. As you will learn later in the book, she does more than that. Finding some of the most information fossils and information the field has ever seen, she did most of it in her own backyard (or the Canadian Badlands, or not too far from where she grew up).  And Helaine […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: dinosaurs, Helaine Becker, Sandra Dumais, science and nature, Wendiceratops

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:313 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: dinosaurs, Helaine Becker, Sandra Dumais, science and nature, Wendiceratops ·
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Down on the farm

Farm Crimes V01: Cracking the Case of the Missing Egg by Sandra Dumais

Farm Crimes V02: the Moo-Sterious Disappearance of Cow by Sandra Dumais

June 10, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

If Doctor Dolittle and Amelia Bedelia had a child, it would be the Inspector. Columbo looks like Sherlock Holmes in comparison to Van Hoof! To say Inspector Billiam Van Hoof is bumbling is an understatement. But ages six to nine will be rolling in the cow patties laughing at the antics our not-so-heroic hero. In Farm Crimes V01: Cracking the Case of the Missing Egg our hero gets lost on the way to the farm (at the bottom of the hill that he lives on […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: animals, chickens, cows, dogs, Farms, goats, Sandra Dumais

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:288 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: animals, chickens, cows, dogs, Farms, goats, Sandra Dumais ·
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