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Not just for the best holiday ever, Halloween

Griselda Snook’s Spectacular Books by Barry Timms

September 30, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

There is a book for everyone and Henry (a kid who is not really into books) wonders if he will be able to find the perfect book for him in Griselda Snook’s Spectacular Books. Of course, he will (we know that most books for kids have a happy ending) and it is the getting there that is the actual journey.  Henry, while helping the customers at Griselda’s bookstore, realizes how there really is a book for everyone. There are magic books, sports books, even joke […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery, Sports, Suspense Tagged With: Barry Timms, Books, Bookstores, friends, halloween, Laura Borio, magic, monsters, reading

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:465 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery, Sports, Suspense · Tags: Barry Timms, Books, Bookstores, friends, halloween, Laura Borio, magic, monsters, reading ·
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Three Little Mice

Where Happiness Lives by Barry Timms

October 30, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Where Happiness Lives is a quaint story about what true happiness is and how one finds it. It is no spoiler that it is through friendship and realizing what is truly worthy (again, no surprised, but it is a home that is over-filled with people who are over-filled with love). It is about how a Mouse is envious of the big house he finds, but the mouse who lives there is envious of the tower he sees from his grand home and how the final […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Barry Timms, Greg Abbott

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:453 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Barry Timms, Greg Abbott ·
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