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Drunk book choices are the best book choices

November 3, 2018 by crystalclear 2 Comments

So I brought fantingviolet to my library’s annual wine tasting, because my library is awesome like that.  With the advent of the self-checkout feature on their app, we get the lovely combination of drunken book selections!  We were drinking in the children’s section (being the youngest group at the wine tasting) and so I was able to peruse the lovely selection.  I picked up the audiobook of Kenny and the Dragon, because it looked interesting.  After I chose it, I realized that it was narrated […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: #CBR10, children's book, Tony Diterlizzi

crystalclear's CBR10 Review No:42 · Genres: Audiobooks, Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: #CBR10, children's book, Tony Diterlizzi ·
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It is Christmastime!

July 5, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

If The Polar Express, The Nutcracker and every Christmas story where the child wishes for ‘the best Christmas ever” made a book-baby, The Broken Ornament would be it. Jack wants this to be the best Christmas ever. Bigger is better! More is better! A bigger tree! More lights! More cookies! More presents! And more ornaments! But when Jack finds one last, old dusty ornament (that his mother tells him not to put on the tree) is broken, Jack is not sure why his mother is […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: christmas, Holiday, Tony Diterlizzi

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:245 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: christmas, Holiday, Tony Diterlizzi ·
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