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Review: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Source: ARC courtesy of Penguin Random House Canada via First Reads. Thank you! Publication: May 9, 2017 by Viking Book Description: Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life… Read more
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Review: The Goat by Anne Fleming
Review: The Goat by Anne Fleming Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Groundwood Books/House of Anansi. Thank you! Publication: March 1, 2017 by Groundwood Books Book Description: When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of… Read more
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Picture Book Review: This Is How We Do It by Matt Lamothe
Review: This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World by Matt Lamothe Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: April 4, 2017 by Chronicle Books Book Description: Follow the real lives of seven kids from Italy, Japan, Iran, India, Peru, Uganda, and Russia… Read more
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Top Ten Tuesday: Unique Books I’ve Read…
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I have not been doing a great job with keeping up and participating, but I have been inspired this week’s topic: the most unique books we’ve read! With the caveat that I have probably/most likely… Read more
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Picture Book Review: Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner & Christopher Silas Neal
Review: Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner, illus. Christopher Silas Neal Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: March 7, 2017 by Chronicle Books Book Description: In this gorgeous companion to the acclaimed Over and Under the Snow and Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, Kate Messner and… Read more
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Board Book Look (3): Flora and the Chicks & Little Oink
Review: Flora and the Chicks: A Counting Book by Molly Idle Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: March 7, 2017 by Chronicle Books Book Description: Inspired by the main character of the Caldecott Honor book Flora and the Flamingo, this new series of board books is perfect for the very youngest Flora… Read more
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Review: Stalking Ground (A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery #2) by Margaret Mizushima
Review: Stalking Ground (A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery #2) by Margaret Mizushima Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Publication: September 13, 2016 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: When Deputy Ken Brody’s sweetheart goes missing in the mountains outside Timber Creek, Mattie Cobb and Robo are called to search. But it’s mid-October… Read more
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Blog Tour Stop: Fish Girl by David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli
Welcome to one of the stops (the last one!) on the Raincoast Books blog tour for David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli’s graphic novel Fish Girl! Please read on for my thoughts as well as a look inside the book… Fish Girl by David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books.… Read more
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Picture Book Review: The King of the Birds by Acree Graham Macam & Natalie Nelson
Review: The King of the Birds by Acree Graham Macam, illus. Natalie Nelson Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press. Thank you! Publication: September 2016 by Groundwood Books Book Description: In this picture book, inspired by the life of Flannery O’Connor, a young fan of fowl brings home a peacock to be… Read more