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Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

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Double Bingo! (2nd Row Down, Third Across- in Red… Blood Red… Mwahahaha) OK, I loved these books in school, loooovvved them. I must have read all three 5 or six times each. So, for the Back to School Square I decided to give the first one a re-read when I found it in my local used book store. This book gets four stars because it is a really good collection of American folk lore, shoot, it gets one whole star from me just for the Bibliography (plus I now have a whole new reading list. I love folklore). While the […]

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10/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

Dealing with those pesky feelings

This Makes me Jealous by Courtney Carbone

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On a five-minute break at work the other day, I looked at the received books that were to go to the children’s floor and the back cover of this book was facing me as well as oddly interesting. Turning it over I found This Makes me Jealous with a very upset young lady on the cover. What pray tell, Courtney Carbone (author of said book) is making our young friend so cross? What it is, is the new girl, Amy, at school. She comes in the middle of our narrators show and tell. She later scores a goal off our […]

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9/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:373 |

Q: What do ye call a pirate with two eyes and two legs? (A: A Rookie! )

Pirates Don’t Go to Kindergarten by Lisa Robinson

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I am not crazy about the story of Pirates Don’t Go to Kindergarten due to the slightly bratty nature of the main pirate. I mean, character. Emma is not fond of the idea of “moving on” to kindergarten from preschool. The ship will not be the same without her favorite cubbies, spots and most importantly, her favorite captain. Besides, going to kindergarten means her new captain is one that explores the universe. And what fun is that? This idea of not wanting change, is not a new concept, but Lisa Robinson does take this story on a more modern approach. […]

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8/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:318 |

His first day of kindergarten

The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes

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The best part of The King of Kindergarten is it is just a story about going to kindergarten. There is nothing preachy or moral giving about it. There are great illustrations and a fun story about one young man’s adventures when he goes off to his first day of kindergarten. The not so best of The King of Kindergarten is it is just a story about going to kindergarten. While it has a more modern feel and tone than books of the past, there is nothing new to tell you about kindergarten. They paint and snack and nap and have […]

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8/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:315 |

It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it.

King Solomon's Mines by HR Haggard

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CBR11Bingo – School So the connection to Bingo here is that when I first got to grad school, I was a TA for a Children’s Lit class that mostly focused on the kinds of writing that Victorian children would have been exposed to in their childhood, when the concept of children’s writing was pretty slim in general. This book is an interesting artifact and an interesting historical text in terms of seeing what kinds of cultural teaching was happening through literature, especially as a time (the late 1880s) when literature was the absolute king of cultural product. But that said, […]

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7/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:409 |

This review does not do this book justice. I should have written OMG THIS IS AMAZING a thousand and two times

Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Twenty years ago, a book called Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson came out. A book about a subject we still do not really talk about today. Speak told the story of Melinda, a freshman in high school, the night she was raped and the fall-out from that. Speak: The Graphic Novel keeps to the feel and message of the novel. I was surprised at what I remembered but things I had forgotten came back and rediscovered other things. I think it has been rearranged a little bit but is still the classic I loved and still recommend. Yet, it is […]

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3/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:100 |

Somehow I thought it would be cooler if animals went to school

If Animals Went to School by Ann Whitford Paul

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If Animals Went to School by Ann Whitford Paul and illustrated by David Walker is a cute story with some animals that are not always used in books (beaver) about going to school. Sadly, there is nothing new after that. Beaver is a bit reluctant to go to school, so he goes very slow. However, once there he learns that school is cool and does not want to go (this time) home. The small saving element is that some animal characteristics are used (the fox rushes about and barks what he says) but then they have extreme examples of animal […]

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3/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:99 |

Books about books, dance, reporters and scuba diving!

Various books by James Dean, Victoria Kann, Herman Parish

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Last night, I was looking at the box of (sadly) damaged books at work. I saw four I Can Read books. I have not read one in a while, so I picked them up. They average out to be a 2.5 for the four, but kids will enjoy and will be 5’s down the board. My biggest complaint with easy readers is companies do not have a uniform rating system. Publisher X might have these at a Level 1 but another would have them as a “My First” level. Or one has it at Level 2 and another will have […]

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12/12/2018 's CBR10 Review No:456 |


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