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Deborah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Deborah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Blue Chicken
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2011
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5 editions
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The Story of Fish and Snail
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2013
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8 editions
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Carl and the Meaning of Life
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2019
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11 editions
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Shy
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2016
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8 editions
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This House, Once
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2017
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3 editions
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By Mouse and Frog
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2015
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3 editions
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Is Was
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2021
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3 editions
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Tiny Dino
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2022
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3 editions
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Partly Cloudy
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Scribble
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2007
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2 editions
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Flowers for the Interviewer!
“… I decided to make a book that celebrates the varied and naturally exuberant ways they already express themselves, a book full of art that they could imagine making immediately.”
On Flowers for Mama. Read more in this interview with author Sarah Steinbacher!
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| An important story of how everything is connected. Kids can learn the basics from the AABBCC verse on each spread—each about a different keystone species—but the accompanying sidebars are (to me, anyway!) the most interesting part of this book. The b ...more | |
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Blues with a Butter Knife: The Unstoppable Music of CeDell Davis
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| I was drawn to this book because of the art by R. Gregory Christie, in top form here, in a story that illustrates necessity as the mother of invention—how (as the author says in a note at the end), CeDell “did not need to “overcome” his disability to ...more | |
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| A deceptively simple, gorgeously written account of an ordinary and illiterate man, by one of many daughters he never acknowledged. We learn as much about her as we do about him, both her bitterness about growing up without a father, and her compassi ...more | |
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| I wanted to read this one because of its subject, i.e. what happens to a tree after it falls? This is a very clever and entertaining way to convey that a dead tree is not dead. A fun read, and most definitely “not boring”! | |
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"Silence/or is it?" How does one begin to write about John Cage? Delightful poetry, art, design are all in sync here, coming as close to representing Cage as I can imagine. The book illustrates for kids wide-open possibility and boundless imagination, ...more |
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| While I'm sure this memoir will resonate especially with anyone who has been completely uprooted, any teen can surely relate to many of its details—outsider feelings, misunderstandings with friends, crushes, communication problems with parents... all ...more | |
“This door was once a colossal oak tree about three hugs around and as high as the blue.”
― This House, Once
― This House, Once
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| Mock Caldecott 2027: May Reads - 2016 | 9 | 100 | Jul 02, 2015 10:11AM | |
| Mock Caldecott 2027: May -2018 | 25 | 167 | Aug 29, 2017 12:26PM | |
| Mock Caldecott 2027: June Reads - 2020 | 7 | 139 | Sep 30, 2019 10:26AM | |
| Ultimate Popsugar...: Week 45: 10/31 - 11/7 | 78 | 195 | Nov 16, 2019 08:04AM | |
| Around the Year i...: [2020] The Wild Discussion | 1434 | 735 | Dec 31, 2019 02:07PM | |
| Nothing But Readi...: Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2019 | 1010 | 1089 | Jan 02, 2020 08:49AM | |
| 2026 Reading Chal...: TBR Jar - 2019 | 510 | 1626 | Jan 02, 2020 07:24PM | |
| Ultimate Popsugar...: Week 43: 10/21 - 10/28 | 66 | 149 | Nov 07, 2021 10:25PM | |
| Children's Books: metafiction / breaking the fourth wall | 31 | 81 | Oct 30, 2024 08:19AM | |
| Around the Year i...: Misty's ATY 2025 Challenge | 172 | 174 | Jan 03, 2026 09:33PM |
“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”
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“I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write”
― Opening the Hand
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write”
― Opening the Hand
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Thanks for friending me! I feel so honored! I'm so glad I found you on Twitter and I can't wait to read Blue Chicken and Scribble! :)
Sandra wrote: "Thanks for friending me! I feel so honored! I'm so glad I found you on Twitter and I can't wait to read Blue Chicken and Scribble! :)"