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#blogbookaday: The Secrets of Ninja School
Summary: “Ruby sets out to learn her own secret skill at Master Willow’s School for Ninjas in this charming picture book that celebrates confidence, creativity, and kindness. Includes a craft for making a felt stuffed dragon! Master Willow’s Ninja School is a place where junior ninja saplings must learn many important…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I’d Like to Meet
I’ve been blessed to meet a number of authors and illustrators in my career at conferences, book festivals and expos. But a few who I would love to meet (and haven’t yet) include the authors below. I chose my list based on the titles they’ve published (which I’ve loved), interviews…
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#blogbookaday: This Is the Nest That Robin Built
Summary: “A robin’s animal friends help build her nest in this cumulative collage picture book. Robin is building a nest, and her friends are ready to help! The squirrel trims the twigs. The dog brings the string. The horse shares his straw. And then a surprise gatefold spread reveals how Robin…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/1/18
What happened to September? I swear it was just Labor Day weekend and now we’re looking at October already! AHHHHHHHH!!!!! I did get the chance to read Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough and it was perfectly fitting to read the week of the Kavanaugh hearing. The story is historical fiction…
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#blogbookaday: Old Hat
Summary: “Harbet likes his comfy knitted hat, but the others keep jeering at him – OLD HAT! OLD HAT! No matter what headwear he buys – be it a towering fruit platter hat, an old-boot-on-the-head hat or a brightly lit traffic cone hat, Harbet cannot keep up with the latest fashions.…
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#blogbookaday: The King of Space
Summary: “Rex may seem to be your average mini galactic citizen, working on his parents’ moog farm and going to school, but he’s plotting to become… THE KING OF SPACE! With aliens, warbots, dung-blasters, and more, Johnny Duddle takes us on an unforgettable intergalactic adventure.” (Taken from Goodreads) Review: Rex has…
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#blogbookaday: Cat Wishes
Summary: “In this playfully subversive fairytale, perfect for fans of Jon Klassen, the ever-skeptical Cat learns that wishes can come true—just not always in the ways we expect. At turns sly and sweet, this clever story about friendship will leave no doubt that true magic lies in our connections with others,…
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What’s New? Literacious Updates and Changes
I started this blog eight years ago with, I think, my first post at the very tail-end of 2010. Since then I’ve gained (many) more followers, found my voice and better figured out where I see this blog going in the future. I hope by now, you’ll see it’s been…
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#blogbookaday: Little Pig Saves the Ship
Summary: “Little Pig is too small to go to sailing camp with his brothers and sisters, so his grandfather makes him a model ship, and together they sail it on the stream–until it gets carried away by the current, and Little Pig has to rescue the ship before it is wrecked.”…
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Princess Readalikes: Ariel’s Curiosity
For Ariel’s princess trait, I chose curiosity – Ariel is curious to a fault when it comes to human’s and their inventions. The characters in these stories are inventors, scientists, explorers and detectives as they search for answers, just like Ariel.
