Posted by Ruth
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fiction, Mysteries, Review
Tags:Animals, Freddy the Pig, Funny, Pigs, Walter R. Brooks
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When the First Animal Bank is robbed, and the animals begin receiving threatening letters, everyone starts to panic. Rumors appear about a strange creature called the Ignormus living in the Big Woods. Things get worse and worse until Freddy decides to organize a group of animals and find out what the Ignormus really is, and what it’s up to.
This is another great book. A must-read for all Freddy fans.
Posted by Jordan
Categories: Fiction, Incredibook!, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Easy Read, Eric Carle, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Insects
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A grouchy ladybug and a polite ladybug both fly in to eat some aphids. The polite one wants to share, but the grouchy one plans on fighting for them. He’s also a coward, though, and so the grouchy ladybug goes off to find something that’s “big enough” for him to fight.
Eric Carle’s books are always fun and interesting. As the grouchy ladybug tries to find something to fight, the pages start out small, and then get larger as the animals he wants to fight get outrageously larger. At the end, there’s a great lesson about sharing and not being grouchy.
Posted by Ruth
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Incredibook!, Review
Tags:Funny, Good Read Aloud, L. M. Montgomery
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Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert live at Green Gables on Prince Edward Island in Canada. As Matthew is getting older, he can’t keep up with the work required in maintaining Green Gables, so he and Marilla decide to adopt a boy from an orphanage to help Matthew. The boy arrives soon afterward, and the boy’s a girl! Anne Shirley. She has an imagination that surpasses all others, and she immediately falls in love with Green Gables. But Matthew and Marilla aren’t sure whether Anne can stay or not. Soon, of course, Anne succeeds in capturing their hearts with her well-meaning ways, and Matthew and Marilla couldn’t imagine life without her.
All the characters in this book are so vividly portrayed, that they seem to be almost alive, and no matter how different you may be from Anne, you’ll still be able to find something in common, and soon you’ll be sharing in all her ups and downs. This, of all books, truly fits the description “heartwarming.” It’s one of my favorites.
Posted by Rebekah
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Funny, Louisa May Alcott
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In this, the final book chronicling the March family and their doings, Plumfield has grown up amazingly. They even have a college! The group of children from Little Men (the second book), star in this book, and are now young adults. Nan has become a promising doctor, Bess is more graceful and queenly then ever, Dan is still energetic and spontaneous, and many of the others are doing well. Jo’s Boys follows all of these young adults through their lives, ambitions, and yes, loves. Filled with humor and realistic experiences, this is a fitting climax to these wonderful books.
(Whew!) These books are hard to write reviews for! It must be a Louisa May Alcott thing. There is such an abundance of believability in them, mixed with humor and tragedy. And they follow so many different characters. But don’t think they’re confusing, on the contrary, they feel very natural and enjoyable. They can seem so real! Jo’s Boys itself is a fun book, hard to describe, but still great. Please read it, it is not to be missed.
Posted by Sarah
Categories: Adventure, Fiction, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Funny, Good Read Aloud, Quick Read, Robert McCloskey
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Bert Dow is a fisherman who lives with his sister, Lulu, along with his pet giggling gull. One day, he sails out to sea in the Tidely Idely to go fishing, along with the giggling gull, and hooks a whale tail! Adventures with whales follow.
This review may not sound interesting, but please read Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man! A good book, in my opinion.
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