I know that the CBR book club is reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, my next book, but I didn’t really pay attention to what one does with that. So, I read it and I’m writing a review and hopefully that will help add to the discussion. I know I owned this book as a kid, as I distinctly remember the opening chapter and that someone eats a liverwurst sandwich. I was one of the only people I knew at the time (still […]
The Butterfly Dance
Caterpillars Dotty and Stripe do everything together. They eat, sleep and play in all the ways caterpillars do! That is until the day Stripe is very tired and goes into a special sleep and he weaves his cocoon. After a while, Dotty does the same thing. After emerging, they notice that things have changed and not just because they are butterflies now. They look nothing alike (one has stripes and one dots), they notice that they do not eat the same foods and none of […]
Oh man, the feels!
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love Winnie-the-Pooh. I grew up on the Disney animated versions, and even today when I step foot on a Disney property, Pooh and his friends can expect to be hugged. I’m grateful that I never picked up the books that inspired these theme park favorites until I was an adult, because they are so hilarious, so thoughtful, and so smart, the animated interpretation surely would have disappointed me if I’d been exposed to the books first. If […]
A Tale of Two Bears and Wolf
If Little House on the Prarie, Little Red Riding Hood and a folktale meet and created a book, Willa and the Bear by Philomena O’Neill would be the result. Have you ever read a book and thought, “Do I like this?” Bear and Wolf by Daniel Salmieri is that book. These two books have nothing in common other than there are bears in them. And both have animals that take on human feelings, thoughts and actions. A bear would not return your lost doll, […]
Little Sid
I think I would have liked this better with a less contemporary take on the subject or if it was a more realistic presentation. The story is too “how a kid and their family is today” with the language and actions of the characters. Obviously meant to grab a young reader, for the adult it could be a distraction to the story of Siddhartha. While I do not know for sure he did not have stuffed animals, somehow, I do not think he would have […]
Finding Wild
First a note on the image, as I have mentioned before, I work in a bookstore. And one of the things I love about that is the fact we have sale books. Nothing is wrong with them, they are just reduced price. That is why the sticker is on this image. The full price is $16.99. Publishers Weekly said this book “…celebrate nature though a whimsical mediation of the idea of wildness”. And it does make you think about the wild. It shows you how […]
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