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Let's Read Animals Words by Ji Lee

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Let’s Read Animals Words is an easy concept. Or so it would seem. I expected to see a picture of a cat and then have words like whiskers, paws, kittens, ears, milk. But nope. Ji Lee made a book where the word is the animal. Therore, the lines swoop into a tail, the P of the word penguin creates the head. Things become a wild game of Jenga that should never hold up. And occasionally it does not. While granted it does not fall down (because you know, image […]

G, B, C, D, E, F, A lets sing the alphabet today!

Alphabuddies: G is First by Beth Bacon and Karen Kane

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Okay. I am an alphabet girl. Numbers? Oh, they are nice, but I like letters. And I like the order they are in. Twenty-six letters all in their place. And if they are not there, well all heck will break out! Or will it? In Alphabuddies: G is First we learn how important each letter is and, in the long run, how it does not matter the order, just as long as you use each and every important one. Of course, it takes us, and […]

I can listen to video readings of two classics. Can you?

Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? by Dr. Seuss

Fox in Socks: Dr. Seuss’s Book of Tongue Tanglers by Dr. Seuss

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CBR15Passport other format (audio & video of a books) My phone was actually working the other night (I have a bad plan that allows my fast internet to go too fast, as in used up) when I found a video of Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? At first, I was “Really? Do we need people reading Dr. Seuss? Isn’t that a more personal reading event?” But then I saw that it was going to be rapped. Okay, I’m interested. I am not a rap […]

I can still hear you saying those words

A Library by Nikki Giovanni

My Poet by Patricia MacLauchlan

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Words are important. There are all types: good, bad, ugly and the words chocolate (a most important one). And the below books are about words. On the surface, A Library by Nikki Giovanni is a silly little story about a young girl and the possibilities of the library she goes to. But it is more than that. The library is a place filled with magic. It is a place where you can be a cook, crook, lover, or sit among the stars. There are worlds […]

Pride and Reading

What Are Your Words?: A Book About Pronouns by Katherine Locke

Prince & Knight: Tale of the Shadow King by Daniel Haack

Julián at the Wedding (Julián, #2) by Jessica Love

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Pride Month is right around the corner. And thought I could easily write 250 words for each of the below picture book, I like have this longer collection as each one touches on a different aspect of pride and the GLBTQ+ community. Both for the picture book crowd (with some exceptions) and adults, these are books that should be put on your radar and TBR lists.   What Are Your Words?: A Book About Pronouns by Katherine Locke and Anne Passchier (illustrations): This is a […]

She “needs pictures on her face.”

Cursed by Karol Ruth Silverstein

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I am going to use for my cbr12bingo Reader’s Choice option for Nostalgia. And really this book could have been set when I was a teen (even if there are cell phones in this book). The tone of the story has that feeling of freedom most parents gave kids “back then.” That free-range parenting. The fact the parents are divorced has that feeling of  this is a new thing and “just coming to light” in a more open and less “((whisper)) So and So just got […]



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