2020-10-02

Review: The Strangeworlds Travel Agency

Have you ever dreamt of travelling to another world? I certainly have, but 12-year-old Flick really hasn’t. She’s a no-nonsense kid who doesn’t need bedtime stories and knows magic isn’t real. But when Flick discovers a strange travel agency while exploring her new town, everything changes. Flick discovers she can see magical tears in the […]

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2020-10-01

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Isn’t it a delight when one of your favorite movies gets recreated as a storybook and that too a gorgeous one? It’s been a joy reading this picture book adaptation of the film “E.T.” directed Steven Spielberg with my 8-year-old. And if you think it from his perspective – alien, spaceship, adventure, and sci-fi, what’s […]

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2020-09-30

Kenny and the Book of Beasts by Tony DiTerlizzi

  KENNY & THE BOOK OF BEASTS by Tony DiTerlizzi Kenny & the Dragon, Book Two Simon & Schuster Middle Grade Fantasy 224 pages   COMING… SEPTEMBER 22nd!!!   In this highly anticipated sequel to New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Honor–winning author Tony DiTerlizzi’s Kenny and the Dragon, Kenny must cope with many changes in his life—including […]

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2020-09-20

The Spirit of Springer: The Real-Life Rescue of an Orphaned Orca

Published by Little Bigfoot Summary:  In January, 2002, an orca calf was discovered by herself near Seattle.  Scientists could tell from her dialect that she was from a pod that lives near Vancouver Island.  Using photos from that pod, they identified her as Springer, a two-year-old female.  Springer was too malnourished to be transported that […]

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2020-09-18 How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion by Ashima Shiraishi, illustrations by Yao Xiao

How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion by Ashima Shiraishi, illustrations by Yao Xiao

Published by Make Me a World Summary:  Rock climbers call boulders problems.  They also call problems problems.  Rock-climbing champion Ashima Shiraishi shows readers how she figures out a boulder problem, using techniques that can be used by any kind of problem-solver.  She maps out a plan before starting.  She doesn’t get it right the first […]

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2020-09-17

Review: The Mostly Invisible Boy by A.J. Vanderhorst

  THE MOSTLY INVISIBLE BOY Casey Grimes, Book One by AJ Vanderhorst INtense Publications Middle Grade Fantasy 292 pages ages 8 to 12 Eleven-year-old Casey Grimes is stubbornly friendly, but he’s eternally the new kid at Vintage Woods Middle School. Students look right through him—and they’re not faking. Casey doesn’t know why he’s mostly invisible, but […]

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2020-09-13

Why Do We Cry? by Fran Pintadera, illustrated by Ana Sender

Published by Kids Can Press Summary:  When Mario asks his mom why we cry, he gets a poetic answer describing different scenarios that might make a person cry:  sadness, frustration, anger, and loneliness to name a few.  The most important reason for crying, she concludes, is because you feel like crying.  Mario notices his mom […]

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