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    <body><![CDATA[*Tap, tap*  *Clears throat*  Is this thing on?<br/><br/>Man, I've been busy.  School starting, committees coagulating, politics festering.  Hoo boy.  Fall.<br/><br/>And I've read, but been remiss in reviewing here, despite my continual lurking, to see what others have read, and to keep tabs on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32133368">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dynamic, dynamite, bombastic, loud- all words that connote a certain violence, but not so.  This book is eye-catching (someone had displayed it on a bottom shelf in my library) and even though I was just coming in the door to start the day and my hands were full and my raincoat dripping I had to pic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22357516">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Shea, B. (2008). Big Plans. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.<br/>1423111001<br/>A boy in time-out, stuck staring at the posters in the corner of his classroom, develops big plans--big plans, I say--of what he’s going to do. His big plans will take him to the top of a hill, to new friends, to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64842605">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My three-year-old nephew LOVES this book. He asks me to read it to him all of the time.  &quot;Ann Ninny (Aunt Cindy), Read THIS one, What's THIS ONE say, Ninny?  BIG PLANS, Ninny SKUNK HAT.&quot;  This child loves the mynah bird and the skunk hat, and he loves to try to repeat the big WORDS that go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51423414">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[LOVE! Could read this aloud every day. Too funny!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A humorous book full of big text, even bigger plans, and a small Mynah bird. <br/><br/>This story takes the reader on a journey (with a young boy and his Mynah bird side-kick) from a time out chair in the corner of a classroom to the the moon! <br/><br/>A picture book that will appeal to both ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71439721">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best kids' books I have read in years.  The story is great.  I mean who hasn't found themselves in trouble, fantasizing about how they are going to show everyone?  I have added this to my shelf for reading time with the kids at school.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An ambitious young boy enlists the help of a bird to assist in his plans for world domination.  ]]></body>
    
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