Posted by Jordan
Categories: Fiction, Incredibook!, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Bernard Waber, Easy Read, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Mice, Quick Read
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There’s a mouse in the Park Snoot Hotel! Everybody says there is no mouse, but manager Josh Posh calls in the professional mouse catchers Hyde and Snyde to make sure.
This is one of my absolute favorite picture books. It’s great fun to find the mouse on every page. Note to those reading out loud: This book is much more fun if a different voice is used for each character!
Posted by Jordan
Categories: Fiction, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Easy Read, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Lions, Maurice Sendak, Poetry, Quick Read
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Pierre is a boy who doesn’t care about anything. What will it take to make him care?
This is a charming story. I put it under the category of Younger Readers, but even though I read much more advanced books, I still love Pierre.
Posted by Rebekah
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fantasy, Fiction, Review
Tags:Animals, Cats, Easy Read, Funny, L. Frank Baum, Oz
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Ojo the Unlucky and his Unc Nunkie visit the Crooked Magician on their way out of the Blue Forest. There they witness the Patchwork Girl being brought to life. All seems well, but an accident occurs. Unc Nunkie and the Crooked Magician’s wife, Margolotte, are turned into marble statues. The precious Powder of Life, which could have restored them, is wasted on a phonograph. Ojo sets out with the Patchwork Girl and a Glass Cat to find the necessary ingredients to bring the statues back to life. The quest takes them all over Oz, and they, in the company of the Scarecrow and Dorothy (the Glass Cat stayed behind for fear of breaking), visit many interesting new races, including the Tottenhots, the Hoppers, the Horners, and a large giant!
This is a fun book with quite a few puns. (Nowhere near as many as in The Emerald City of Oz.) Scraps, the Patchwork Girl, is quite a character. Also, this is the same Crooked Magician who gave the Powder of Life to Old Mombi in The Land of Oz.
Posted by Rebekah
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Dogs, Easy Read, Funny, P. L. Travers, Snakes
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In this, the first Mary Poppins book, Mary Poppins comes to be the governess of the four Banks children, Jane, Michael, and the Twins. Strict and stern she may be, but when it comes to having tea up next to the ceiling, telling stories, putting stars back in the sky and talking to Hamadryads, Mary Poppins is an amazing person.
The Mary Poppins books are different from the movie. In the books, Mary Poppins is much more stern. Oh, and I’m sorry, but the dancing penguins are not included in the books. It’s fun how Jane and Michael are never quite sure if their adventures were real or not.
Posted by Becca 
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