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June 28, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This is a take-off of the Buffy Summers story during the TV series, but forgets there was movie (as many fans do). Most of Sunnydale is there (Willow, Xander, Giles, Buffy’s mom) but has Buffy as an 8-year-old girl, just coming into her knowledge she is a slayer, instead of the teen she is during the series.   Actually, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Picture Book starts off with Buffy “now” doing what she does best (slaying vampires) and then flashes back to being eight […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: afraid, afraid of the dark, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, dark, emotions, Joss Whedon, Kim Smith

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:231 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: afraid, afraid of the dark, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, dark, emotions, Joss Whedon, Kim Smith ·
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Just Listening

May 29, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Rabbit Listened has a lot of the things I dislike in a book: sparse text and illustrations. However, this time, they fit the theme perfectly. The theme is a young child, Taylor, does not know how to proceed with dealing with their feelings when something bad happens. But all his animal friends know how to handle it. Yet, nothing really fits until the rabbit has the perfect solution. Rabbit listens. The sparseness of the text and art is just that: listening. You do not […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: Cori Doerrfeld, emotions, Feelings

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:170 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: Cori Doerrfeld, emotions, Feelings ·
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