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Little Master Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Jennifer Adams (2014)
A Camping Primer, we are introduced to Huckleberry Finn. To river, friends, raft, clothes, fishing line, dinner, riverbank, birds, and...
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Little Master Tolstoy: Anna Karenina - Jennifer Adams (2013)
A Fashion Primer, we are introduced to Anna Karenina. To gown, earring, hairpins, uniform, hat, buttons, parasol, gloves, cloak, and...
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Little Miss Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables - Jennifer Adams (2017)
A lovely Places Primer, we are introduced to Anne of Green Gables. To Price Edward Island, to Home, to Avenue, to Pond, to Garden, to...
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Woolbur - Leslie Helakoski (2008)
Woolbur is an adventurous little lamb. As much as Maa and Paa might despair. Woolbur likes to do things differently, and why shouldn't...
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Llama Llama Holiday Drama - Anna Dewdney (2010)
I enjoy the Llama Llama books. They are written in rhyme, and are fun to read out loud. But they are also about how sometimes people have...
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Murphy's Three Homes: A Story for Children in Foster Care - Jan Levinson Gilman (2009)
This is a slightly heartbreaking story about Murphy, the Tibetan Terrier is a cute, sweet dog who's curiosity frequently gets him into...
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Won Ton and Chopstick: A Cat and Dog Tale Told in Haiku - Lee Wardlaw (2015)
My husband and I already had two cats when we decided to adopt a dog. If my cats could speak in Haiku, at least one of them would behave...
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Won-Ton A Cat Tale Told in Haiku - Lee Wardlaw (2011)
Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku is amazing! Different Haikus are organized as separate incident (The Shelter, The Naming). Naptime!...
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A Bad Kitty Christmas - Nick Bruel (2011)
This is a retelling of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and it's great! From ambushing the angel to zapping the zeal, Bad Kitty is...
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Extra Yarn - Mac Barnett (2011)
I cannot imagine the joy of finding beautiful yarn in a lovely box, but I CAN imagine having Extra Yarn. It is something very familiar to...
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Diary of a Baby Wombat - Jackie French (2010)
This time we hear stream of consciousness diary writing from BABY wombat! So adorable! A poor beleaguered mother wombat tries to get some...
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Christmas Wombat - Jackie French (2012)
Written as a stream of consciousness diary entry, Christmas Wombat tracks the musings of a grumpy wombat's Christmas adventures. I loved...
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Little Owl's Orange Scarf - Tatyana Feeney (2013)
Have you ever had an item of clothing you just hated? Well for poor little Owl, it's his new orange scarf. I loved the inventive ways in...
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The 3 Bears and Goldilocks - Margaret Willey (2008)
This is a beautiful book. Lovely watercolour illustrations on each page set the tone for this slightly more detailed story of the three...
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Little Master Melville: Moby-Dick - Jennifer Adams (2013)
A beautiful Ocean Primer, we are introduced to the bare bones of Moby Dick. Not to the story, but to the sailors, ship, gulls, captain,...
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Genre Fiction Definitions
Here's how I classify my genre fiction in the hopes that it will make my blurbs a little simpler to follow. Action Adventure...
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Twilight: the Relationship Killer?
Four(ish) years ago, after a semester of reading Thomas Hardy and Naturalism I started reading the Twilight series over the...
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Boy Meets Boy – David Levithan
Dear Boy Meets Boy… my high school was pretty damn progressive, but even we didn’t have the “Drag Queen Clique.” First of all, that there...
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Coldest Girl in Coldtown – Holly Black
Tana wakes up after passing out at a house party. As she walks through the house in a mission to collect her purse, jacket, and boots she...
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Loki’s Wolves – K.L. Armstrong & M.A. Marr (2014)
Loki’s Wolves is discount Percy Jackson, with Norse Mythology. There is way less adult supervision (I know, I didn’t think that was...
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