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Do you celebrate with your family? Well so does this family!

October 17, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

  If you are a fan of the All-Of-A-Kind Family series, this might be a book to add to your collection. It is a picture book with slightly more text than usual, but in the vein of the original tales as Emily Jenkins has tried to keep to the spirit of a beloved series. And Paul O. Zelinsky also has tried to keep the feel of the original illustrations while putting his own spin on them. In an afterwards he mentions his influences and reasoning […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction Tagged With: celebrations, Emily Jenkins, faith, family, Hanukkah, Holiday, Paul O. Zelinsky, Sydney Taylor

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:390 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction · Tags: celebrations, Emily Jenkins, faith, family, Hanukkah, Holiday, Paul O. Zelinsky, Sydney Taylor ·
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A Visit to My Childhood (BINGO!)

September 30, 2018 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I couldn’t let September close without achieving my first bingo. It was bothering me that I was sitting with 14 squares done and no bingos, and that given my available library books it was two more squares at least until I accomplished this. And then I remembered that I had my Throwback Thursday choice sitting on my bookshelf and it was time to take a trip back to my childhood reading. I have no recollection of how All-of-a-Kind Family arrived on my shelves. There’s no […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: All of a Kind Family, cbr10bingo, faintingviolet, read harder challenge, Sydney Taylor, Throwback Thursday

faintingviolet's CBR10 Review No:48 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: All of a Kind Family, cbr10bingo, faintingviolet, read harder challenge, Sydney Taylor, Throwback Thursday ·
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