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September 12, 2015
My View Book Review: AbbeyLoo and Gus the Talking Toad by Tammy Cortez
Title: AbbeyLoo and Gus the Talking Toad
Author: Tammy Cortez
Illustrator: Noemie Gionet Landry
Publisher/Year: Waldorf Publishing/2015
Summary:AbbeyLoo is a curious little girl with a BIG imagination. This imagination takes AbbeyLoo to some very exciting and often unexpected places. AbbeyLoo loves exploring her backyard. There is always something new to see. Her favorite find is the many toads that roam her backyard. AbbeyLoo loves to carefully catch the toads and pet them and talk to them....
September 10, 2015
Hoppy Book Birthday to SPACE MONKEY by Eric Blue
Hoppy Book Birthday!
September 7, 2015
Picture Books At The Library 31
In my position as a technical processing assistant at the DeWitt Community Library, I catalog a lot of new picture books. Unfortunately, I cannot review them all, but I do read them all and have assigned a :) to my favorites. Below are a few I’ve cataloged recently. (Whenever possible, summaries have been taken directly from the books.)
Follow one little mouse on her search for a best friend to stay by her side…
A big wave takes Toto away. He needs help.
At the end of summer, a girl’s mother...
September 4, 2015
Interview Alert: Tara Lazar, Author Of “I Thought This Was A Bear Book” plus a My View Book Review
Picture book author and PiBoIdMo (Picture Book Idea Month) creator Tara Lazar is taking the kidlitosphere by storm, with two books out and four more scheduled to be released within the next couple of years. Pretty impressive! When the opportunity arose to not only review her latest book,I Thought This Was A Bear Book,but also totoss some interview questions her way, I couldn’t pass it up.There was so much I wanted to ask her, but I managed to whittle the list down to a reasonable (much less...
September 1, 2015
It’s Official: The Peddler’s Bed Book Birthday + You’re Invited To The Party + The Giveaway Winner!
I’m super excited to share this news with all of you! I have a lot to tell you about today, including the “when” and “where” of my book launch party and the announcement of the Giveaway winner, but before I get to that I want to thank everyone who has encouraged my writing endeavors, everyone who has followed Frog on a Blog, and everyone who...
August 31, 2015
Picture Books At The Library 30
In my position as a technical processing assistant at the DeWitt Community Library, I catalog a lot of new picture books. Unfortunately, I cannot review them all, but I do read them all and have assigned a :) to my favorites. Finley Frog’s favorite is marked with a 8). Below are a few I’ve cataloged recently. (Whenever possible, summaries have been taken directly from the books.)
:) Spencer loves books and reads one every night, sometimes aloud, then puts the book back in its place, but one...
August 28, 2015
My View Book Review: Beverlee Beaz The Brown Burmese by Regan W.H. Macaulay
Title:Beverlee Beaz The Brown Burmese
Author: Regan W.H. Macaulay
Illustrator: Alex Zgud
Publisher/Year: Cricket Cottage Publishing/2015
Back Cover Blurb: Beverlee Beaz, the brown Burmese, longs for adventure and hasthe powerful imagination to make it happen! On a lovely but otherwise ordinary day, she seeks excitement among the forests and fieldssurrounding her home, where she lets her imaginationrun wild. The ordinary suddenly becomes extraordinary in the eyes of this little brown cat. Let...
August 24, 2015
Picture Books At The Library 29
In my position as a technical processing assistant at the DeWitt Community Library, I catalog a lot of new picture books. Unfortunately, I cannot review them all, but I do read them all and have assigned a :) to my favorites. Finley Frog’s favorite is marked with a 8). Below are a few I’ve cataloged recently. (Whenever possible, summaries have been taken directly from the books.)
:) A picture book about a parrot named Beatrix, who is very awake, very excited to see her friends, and has a ver...
August 21, 2015
My View Book Review: All The Other Nuggies by Jeff Minich
Title: All The Other Nuggies
Author: Jeff Minich
Illustrator: Renan Garcia
Publisher/Year: Nuggies Inc./2015
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I’m a sucker for picture books about puppies, so when Jeff Minich, the author ofAll The Other Nuggies,contacted me about reviewing his book, I couldn’t say no. Just look at the cute little canineson the cover. I asked Jeff why he calls them Nuggies and he told me that the name is a transformation of the word...
August 17, 2015
Picture Books At The Library 28
In my position as a technical processing assistant at the DeWitt Community Library, I catalog a lot of new picture books. Unfortunately, I cannot review them all, but I do read them all and have assigned a :) to my favorites. Finley Frog’s favorite is marked with a 8). Below are a few I’ve cataloged recently. (Whenever possible, summaries have been taken directly from the books.)
It’s Bulldozer’s big day. But as he eagerly, hopefully, rolls around the construction site, he realizes that it’s...
