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Great Picture Books! (2)
Big Bad Bubble by Adam Rubin, illus. Daniel Salmieri Just look at that cover! Are you smiling yet?! Rubin & Salmieri- the team behind Secret Pizza Party and Dragons Love Tacos– have given us another totally winning and funny story. You wouldn’t think it, but monsters in La La Land are actually petrified of bubbles. Read more
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Picture Book Picks: Friendship, Love & Kindness
Picture books about friendship, love and kindness are, I think, always welcome! We get a lot of questions at our library regarding the aforementioned themes, and I’ve slowly been cultivating my list of favourites over the a number of years. Here, in no particular order, are my favourite picture books about love and friendship. (…This Read more
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How’s your week going?
I know it’s only Tuesday, but I feel a bit like Georgie boy here… I’ve made some headway into my 2015 reading challenge and read a few YA titles; I hope to have some new posts up soon! Read more
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Encore! Picture Book Picks: Storytime Favourites
A read aloud can make or break the success of a storytime. I’ve had those storytimes where, just a few lines into a picture book I can tell it’s going to be a clunker with the kids. The sweating begins, the voice becomes uncertain and it…doesn’t…go….well…and you’re dying a slow death on stage. But when Read more
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MY EYE! MY EYE!
Have a great weekend, all! But for goodness sake, EXERCISE CAUTION when offering up a high-five… Source: Buzzfeed Read more
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Are your bookshelves similarly divided?
More bookish goodness from the terrific illustrator/cartoonist Tom Gauld: Read more
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How many resolutions have already been busted?
Happy 2015 to all! I hope everyone had a safe and fun New Year’s! Hopefully you didn’t get up to as much insanity as this crazy cat: Now it’s time for me to get cracking on a brand spanking new year of reading and reviewing! Read more
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Best of 2014, Part 4: Picture Books
This collage of covers includes my picks for top picture book titles I read in 2014. Please note that some titles may have been published in previous years, but they were all new to me this year! In no particular order, here are my favourites: Read more
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Best of 2014, Part 3: Humour
While much of my 2014 reading from the humour genre came from rereads of my favourite comic strip collections, there were a few new standouts for me: Tails Don’t Lie: A Decade of Dog Cartoons (70 in Dog Years) by Adrian Raeside I’ve long enjoyed Canadian cartoonist Raeside’s The Other Coast comic strip, along with Read more
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Best of 2014, Part 2: Children’s Fiction and Young Adult
My picks for top 5 children’s and top 5 YA fiction I read this year: Murder Most Unladylike (Wells and Wong #1) by Robin Stevens The Return of Zita the Spacegirl (Zita the Spacegirl #3) by Ben Hatke Now Look What You’ve Done (Timmy Failure #2) by Stephen Read more
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