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BOOK REVIEW – The Lunar Antics Presents: Boy I’d Hate to Be Made Out Of That Stuff!

The Lunar Antics Presents: Boy I’d Hate to Be Out Of That Stuff!

By Robert Walters
Language: English
ISBN-10: 061531614X
ISBN-13: 978-0615316147

I know what I like and don’t usually enjoy substituting. I try to pack for every contingency. Besides clothes for the bare whether…I factor in emergency stuff like weather, illness, hunger, and, [...]

BOOK REVIEW – Chicken Soup For The Soul: Extraordinary Teens

Chicken Soup For The Soul: Extraordinary Teens
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Kent Healy

Published by Chicken Soup for the Soul, August 2009
Paperback, 448 pages
ISBN-10: 1935096362
ISBN-13: 9781935096368

I delighted in teaching young teens for 35 years. I appreciated occasional notes and visits. I thrilled at successes I saw recorded [...]

BOOK REVIEW – A Certain “Je Ne Sais Quoi” by Chloe Rhodes

A Certain “Je Ne Sais Quoi”

by Chloe Rhodes
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Readers Digest (March 4, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1606520571
ISBN-13: 978-1606520574

I already was reading when I entered school. Back then I was put into a combined first-second grade class. I remember my teacher instructing, “Do not read ahead.” I [...]

BOOK REVIEW With Giveaway – Chicken Soup for the Soul: True Love

Chicken Soup For The Soul True Love: True Love

Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul (December 29, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1935096435
ISBN-13: 978-1935096436

Synopsis – Everyone loves a good love story. And we all love stories about how the love started and blossomed. This fun new book about dating, romance, love, [...]

BOOK REVIEW – Black Hills by Dan Simmons

Black Hills
By Dan Simmons

Hardcover: 512 pages
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books; 1 edition (February 24, 2010)
ISBN-10: 031600698X
ISBN-13: 978-0316006989
Author’s website – www.dansimmons.com

Years ago I did the classics. Today my genre is mystery. My authors of choice include Kellerman, Kimmelman, Truman, Cornwall, Deaver, Kellerman (Jonathan), and Kellerman (Faye). So when I was asked [...]

BOOK REVIEW with giveaway – Feeding Penny Pig by Jeannine Fox

Feeding Penny Pig
Author: Jeannine Fox
Publisher: Mimi’s Funhouse, LLC
List: $14.95Hardcover: 32 pages
# ISBN-10: 098415891X
# ISBN-13: 978-0984158911
Purchase online – http://www.mimisfunhouse.com/home.htm
Feeding Penny Pig reminded me of a blue plaster piggy I had as a young child. Perhaps that is why I so delighted in it.
I love the story about a [...]

BOOK REVIEW with giveaway – I’m Up a Tree by Mark Alden Johnson

I’m Up in a Tree
Author: Mark Alden Johnson
Publisher: Bridgeway Books
ISBN: 978-1-934454-36-7
List: $14.95
Purchase online  – http://www.mjchildrensbooks.com/about-im-up-in-a-tree/
Lyrical sounds appeal to young readers so this book being written almost entirely in rhyming couplets will draw them in. The nameless main character is nameless; therefore most primary school aged children can readily identify themselves [...]