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Two reviews for the price of one post

Baby Monster by Andrea Pfeiffer

I Want to Sleep Under the Stars by Mo Willems

September 9, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

It is that time of year again: New reader copies. And two that found their way to my reading desk were a picture book called Baby Monster and an early reader called I Want to Sleep Under the Stars! (Unlimited Squirrels V03). They have nothing in common except I read them the same day and knew a 250 review each would be hard. Andrea Pfeiffer created Monster Baby. It is an amusing and rhyming text story about a couple (of scientists) who made a bundle […]

I’ll have a cup of tea, a dragon and a great story please and thank you

The Tea Dragon Society Vo1 by Katie O’Neill

August 11, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

(image 100% stolen from internet) The Tea Dragon Society Vo1 is by the author of the Aquacorn book I recently read and reviewed. And this book is filled with contradictions for me. First, I do not think I would have gone onto the Aquacorn book had I read about the Tea Dragons first. There is a lot to love, but it is not as strong as her later book. However, at the same time it is better. Second, I rate this a four, but it […]

What’s the Buzz Pea (Bee and Jay)?

Pea, Bee Jay #1: Stuck Together by Brian "Smitty" Smith

July 29, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Pea, Bee Jay #1: Stuck Together is the story of three unlikely friends who get into all sorts of trouble. But that is nothing when you are as smart, clever and cool as they are! When Pea decides to take on a dare from the other vegetables and roll pass the fence all the way to the tree, they are caught up in a terrible storm; blown off course. Where they eventually meet a Bee with a secret (for some reason a couple of other […]

Since I couldn’t pick just one, this is a long review with no pillows included for a break nap

beast feast by Douglas Florian

Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye

One Year at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks

July 27, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr12bingo Gateway As a former-full-time bookseller and now part-time bookseller, I do not have that one book, author or genre to get a person reading. I have a book/author/genre to fit the person I am speaking with. However, within some genres I do have a go-to author or in one case, publisher. Two areas that many are not familiar with are poetry and graphic novels. Or more accurately in the case of school-aged students they do not want to be familiar with poetry and adults […]

Liz Climo is the cartoonist the world needs!

Please Don't Eat Me by Liz Climo

July 5, 2020 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR12 BINGO: Friendship Liz Climo is probably my favorite working cartoonist. Her drawings of “odd couple” animals and their relationships are unmitigated joy, what my 29-year-old niece describes as “wholesome” (followed by the sobbing eyes emoji, reserved for things so pure she just can’t stand it). If you’re not familiar with Climo’s artwork, then congratulations, you lucky duck, because you are about to experience happiness like you haven’t felt in months! Her characters are usually critters that you might not typically think of as “going together,” like […]

Friendship can stink….

Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake

July 3, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Friendship slot for cbr12bingo done Skunk and Badger (book one of a planned at least trilogy) are The Really Odd Couple. I have no doubt that the others are going to keep this interesting new Buddy Series on its toes! Amy Timberlake created a book that has an old school/old world feeling to it. I thought of Frog and Toad and Wind in the Willows while reading it. The story behind getting my copy of this due in September book, is a slightly odd one. […]

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