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DinoWriMo: Bedtime
What do you get when you read Goodnight Moon to a sleepy dinosaur?A dinosnore.For more terrible puns, click the tag DinoWriMo....
Review of Gracefully Grayson
Gracefully Graysonby Ami PolonskyIntermediate, Middle School Hyperion 247 pp.11/14 978-1-4231-8527-7 $16.99Grayson, a sixth grader at Porter Middle School, passes the time doodling and daydreaming about what it would be like to go through life as a girl, despite being seen by everyone else as male. Struggling with the total isolation...
Review of Through the Woods
Through the Woodsby Emily Carroll; illus. by the authorHigh School McElderry 208 pp.7/14 978-1-4424-6595-4 $21.99Paper ed. 978-1-4424-6596-1 $14.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-6597-8 $10.92Carroll crafts five unsettling tales in graphic-novel format inspired by common folkloric themes — from wolves in the woods to peculiar visitors to dark possessions. In “Our Neighbor’s House,” three...
Review of Bow-Wow’s Nightmare Neighbors
Bow-Wow’s Nightmare
Neighborsby Mark Newgarden and Megan Montague Cash; illus. by the authorsPreschool Porter/Roaring Brook 64 pp.9/14 978-1-59643-640-4 $17.99 gBow-Wow is back in this fanciful wordless follow-up to Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug (rev. 7/07). This time, the stalwart canine sets out to retrieve his stolen doggy bed from the ornery...
Review of Beetle Boy
Beetle Boyby Margaret WilleyHigh School Carolrhoda Lab 200 pp.9/14 978-1-4677-2639-9 $17.95e-book ed. 978-1-4677-4626-7 $12.95As eighteen-year-old Charlie Porter slowly and painfully convalesces from a ruptured Achilles tendon at his girlfriend Clara’s house, bits of his past — years of being paraded around in a bug costume by his exploitive father as...
Dog days of summer
Dogs, cats, and…a sloth. These picture books showcase the comfort, companionship, aggravation, upheaval, and education that pets can bring into a family's life.In Karen Stanton's Monday, Wednesday, and Every Other Weekend, Henry and his dog Pomegranate live with Mama on Mondays, Wednesdays, and alternating weekends and with Papa the rest...
CBB Trivia Night 2014: We were the champions…eventually
The Horn Bookers — a.k.a. Goldilocks and the Free Beers, a.k.a. Elissa, Shara, Katrina, Lolly, and Rachel — got off to a slow start at last night’s Children’s Book Boston trivia event held at M. J. O’Connor’s Irish Pub located in Back Bay. We were two team members down at...
The Adventures of Captain Underpants app review
The Adventures of Captain Underpants app (Scholastic, 2013) features an easy-to-navigate full-color digital adaptation of Dav Pilkey's graphic novel of the same name, plus an avatar generator, a sound effects mixer, and a panoply of other mini-games based on the story.Best friends and class pranksters George and Harold create a...
'Til death do we part? The Undertaking of Lily Chen
The Undertaking of Lily Chen (First Second, March 2014), Danica Novgorodoff’s latest graphic novel, begins with an excerpt from an article published by The Economist in 2007:Parts of rural China are seeing a burgeoning market for female corpses, the result of the reappearance of a strange custom called “ghost marriages.”...
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