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Daisy, Dad and a Motorcycle

My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero’

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My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a good father and daughter story that is based on Isabel Quintero’s own experiences as a child with her father and driving around the city they called home. Quintero brings together the past (the races they had on what is now the main street), present (the dog chasing them, and their favorite shaved ice place closed) and future (a cart that sells shaved ice). The sense of family and community is loudly presented. It is also boldly presented with great illustrations by Zeke Pena. There are the colors of the neighborhood, the blurs of […]

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6/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:236 |

Don’t Say We Didn’t Try

Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe by Rebecca Erbelding

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Due to extensive documentation in all manner of media, World War II is an enduring object of fascination. Just when we think we’ve heard everything, the inexhaustible well comes up with something new. In my favored stories of resistance, espionage, politicking, and propaganda, the Holocaust—Nazi Germany’s systematic genocide of Jews in occupied Europe—is impossible to avoid. (Yes, other minority groups were targeted, too. This book is not about them.) It’s a favorite pastime among WWII buffs to finger people, besides the Germans, who ought to share the blame for the most famous war crimes of all time. Maybe the worst […]

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2/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

“A barbarian who cannot write a sentence of grammar and can hardly spell his own name.” (John Quincy Adams)

Andrew Jackson: The Making of America by Teri Kanefield

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This book took a while to get through, not because it is bad, but I was reading other books at the time and the subject was not 100% grabbing me. This book (as the title says) shows us Andrew Jackson and his part in Making America. And this is not an easy subject.  Andrew Jackson: The Making of America is the second book in this series). Alexander Hamilton was the first and Lincoln will be the third and Susan B. Anthony: the fourth. So far, Teri Kanefield is the author of all of them. We get to look at the […]

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2/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |

What would you do if you were arrested for wearing pants?

Mary Wears What She Wants by Keith Negley

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Mary Wears What She Wants and there is nothing you can do about it! Well, there is something you could do: You can make fun of her, tell her she is not “lady like” by wearing pants, protest, yell and make her feel bad about herself. Or you could support her. Keith Negley has taken the real-life story of Mary Edwards Walker of Oswego, New York and made a fiction story about the day Mary decided she did not like wearing dresses (with all their limitations) and started wearing pants. The results, of course, are obvious for the times. The […]

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1/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

America is our gal!

Americans by Douglas Wood

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Douglas Wood has created a very idealistic look at America and Americans. What is presented is what we were told this country is about: freedom, differences, agreeing to disagree. There is not even “oh sometimes we disagree so much we decide to kill each other like in the news shows us.” It does mention that we are human and sometimes we make mistakes.  It speaks of the Fourth of July, the Bill of Rights and other things that does make America unique. It does show what we want to be. The illustrations of Elizabeth Sayles save the day. They are […]

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12/26/2018 's CBR10 Review No:473 |

3 swift sleighs, 4 lobster rolls, 8 skaters carving, and a blue jay in a spruce tree!

The Twelve Days of Christmas in New England by Toni Buzzeo

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The Twelve Days of Christmas in New England (also in a hardcover version) is just the Twelve Days of Christmas song with New England features. Fun, but a limited audience. I read the board book size. This is not a bad way to present the song. However, the extras at the end (Vermont you ski and Maine you eat lobsters. Yes, a simplistic explanation, but that is the idea: the highlights are hit) might be a bit too much for the younger audience. In the larger format I am assuming this would also be easier to enjoy as it is […]

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12/20/2018 's CBR10 Review No:467 |

YAY TO MY FRIEND BETH KANELL! (Yes, little name dropping there!)

The Long Shadow by Beth Kanell

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First: YAY TO MY FRIEND BETH KANELL! She has created another novel for history and Vermont buffs. Long story how I meet her, but she and I have talked books, poetry and life in general and I cannot wait to talk The Long Shadow with her as well. Second: The Long Shadow is set in North Upton, Vermont in 1850. She deals with abolition, bounty hunters and hiding fugitives of the escaped slave kind. Her narrator, Alice, is a young teen girl, growing up in a family of brothers in a small Vermont town. Her best friend lives next door […]

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12/12/2018 's CBR10 Review No:451 |

Journalist, born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada, now lives in Oregon, writes book about the Second US Civil War. Is Awesome.

American War by Omar El Akkad

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.   — George Santayana If you were to guess what might cause a second US civil war, what would it be? Given the current political debate over the Trump administration, one might think it wouldn’t be so much a physical divide as an ideological one. Yet, in American War, by Omar El Akkad, the second civil war is imagined as erupting in 2074 over fossil fuels, because some southern states refuse to give them up, for both industrial manufacturing reasons and, just plain ornery stubbornness. As speculative fiction, El Akkad sets […]

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9/6/2018 's CBR10 Review No:17 |


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