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Princess Readalikes: Cinderella’s Hopefulness
The characters in these titles show their own strength and hopefulness, just like Cinderella. Cinderella’s stand out trait has to be her hopefulness. She has a fairly terrible childhood, as she becomes an orphan and a servant to her own stepmother and stepsisters, but through it all, continues to hope…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/10/18
I can’t believe it’s already September! I have no idea where this summer has gone, let alone the year! Even though I did get to read Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo (and it was amazing), I’m moving fairly slowly through The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig and not because it’s bad –…
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Princess Readalikes: Snow White’s Compassion for Animals
Snow White’s compassion for animals is probably one of her stand out traits. If you don’t believe me, just watch the movie again and you’ll see her singing with forest animals gathered around. The characters in these titles love animals as much as Snow White does.
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/3/18
I always think that when I travel I’ll have a little more time when visiting family to read, but most of my time is spent visiting (imagine that)! I drove out to my parents’ home on Thursday night and then we drove out to Wisconsin on Friday for my aunt…
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Author Spotlight: Ame Dyckman
Today’s featured author is Ame Dyckman, an author of some of the cutest and funniest books on the market today and one of nicest authors I’ve met online and in person! I first fell in love with Ame’s work with her book – Boy + Bot and reviewed it here on my blog and…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/27/18
Personally, life’s been getting back on track – still have a lot of remodeling that needs to happen because of the flooding, but other than we’re getting back to “normal.” Work’s been busy as the summer winds down and Summer Reading will be officially done on Friday. I’m hoping that…
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Three on a Theme: Back to School
If school hasn’t started yet in your neck of the woods, then the first day is right around the corner! Start the first day off with these three picture books that celebrate diversity and teach kids that perspective changes everything! All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold “Follow a group of…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/20/18
What a week it’s been! Have you ever had a week that just can’t seem to get much worse? That was my week. We had a massive storm hit our area last Monday which resulted in a manhole cover being dislodged on the street next to the house and water…
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Author Spotlight: Josh Funk
A new feature on my blog, the author spotlight will highlight an author whose body of work I particularly like! Today’s featured author is Josh Funk, a writer of both Java and manuscripts, if you’ve never gotten a chance to check out his body of work, don’t wait – pick…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/13/18
I finished up Nightbooks by J.A. White and have to say that I really enjoyed it! It incorporated some folk and fairy tales in a really unique way and was just creepy enough – a great fall booktalk for middle grade readers! I started The Train to Impossible Places: A Cursed Delivery…
