I hate starting off with, “I really wanted to like The Five Forms by McClintock, but….” The cover illustration was a wonderful tease. The inside illustrations have potential. The colors are amazing. I love when colors are bright but not overpowering the words. Or are a “shock” to the system. The simple text is always nice to have so you are not overwhelming the illustrations. And it has all that. What it did not have was me in the right frame of mind to read […]
Not Yet Zebra
Not Yet, Zebra has a bouncy and fun feel to the text and has quirky, cartoonish, yet fairly realistic, illustrations. The little girl in the story has her story all set up to tell. But that pesky Zebra is not following the plan. My take was one should not assume the animals the girl is trying to paint (in alphabetical order) are really “alive”, but I assumed that it is a child pretending her animals are alive and these animals can be mischievous. Especially that […]
Through the eyes of a mouse
Having just finished a non-fiction work about evolution, I decided to bring it down a notch and read something very different, but still somewhat related. Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World is a lovely children’s book about a few days in the life of a white-footed mouse (whom we call Whitefoot, since we don’t know her real name in Mouse language). Author Wendell Berry writes with an elegant simplicity that is sweet without being syrupy. Of the heroine, he writes, “In comparison […]
Bathroom Boogie
This book is due in June. One joy of working in a bookstore is sometimes you get to see items before they grace the streets. The second joy was me talking to people, “I can’t wait for this book…… let me pre-order it for you!” (I was once introduced to the principal of a school as the gal that spent their money!) When I think of the bathroom I do not thing of doing a boogie. However, Clare Foges and Al Murphy do. Or at least […]
I Am Gandhi
The good thing about biographies for children is you do not tend to see the negative aspects of a person’s personality. The bad thing about biographies for children is you do not tend to see the negative aspects of a person’s personality. Therefore, I feel I am not always getting the full picture of a person. With that said, it is good that you do not see that Gandhi might not have been as perfect as I Am Gandhi (from the Ordinary People Change the […]
Marlon Bundo (Non-Pence version)
While I cannot compare them directly (I have not read Charlotte and Karen Pence’s book) but by description, reviews and having read Oliver’s book I am confident in saying that John Oliver and team have captured the imitation is the best form of flattery market with their version of the Vice President Pence (or his wife and daughter) book Marlon Bundo’s Day in the Life of the Vice President. While you might not agree with Pence or Oliver views, this is a book that is […]
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