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Categories: Fiction, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Easy Read, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Monsters, Poetry, Quick Read, Rhyme, Susan Heyboer O’Keefe
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An increasing number of hungry monsters create general chaos at a boy’s house as they look for something to eat.
Everything here is in rhyme. For the first ten pages or so, the monsters ask to be fed. For the next ten, the boy brings out food. To finish the book, the monsters play with their food until the boy gets fed up with them (no pun intended).
Posted by Jordan
Categories: Advanced Readers, Fiction, Incredibook!, Review
Tags:Funny, Good Read Aloud, Jan Karon, Long Read, The Mitford Years
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Now that Father Tim and Cynthia are married (you knew they would), they have to adjust to life together. Plus, Father Tim has a brand new set of things to deal with. He can’t figure out Lord’s Chapel’s new computer system, Cynthia is redecorating and moving furniture, J. C. Hogan is acting strange, he’s got to hire a chaplain for Hope House, and he and Cynthia have a life-changing experience while camping.
Whew! Father Tim is a very busy man! The third book in the Mitford series is just as enjoyable as the first two. Everybody is as real as before. I love this series, and I hope you will, too.
Posted by Jordan
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Betty Macdonald, Easy Read, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Quick Read
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside down house and married a pirate. She also loves kids, and lets them look for Mr. Piggle-Wiggle’s pirate treasure, which he buried in the backyard before he died. All the parents call her for advice on how to cure their children of bad habits. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has hilarious cures for almost anything. How do you cure a boy who won’t pick up his toys? You let him make his room so messy that he can’t get out!
Every chapter is a new cure. There’s Patsy, who won’t take a bath; Dick, who won’t share; and many more. Every one of these “ailments” is cured in a delightfully silly (yet sensible) way. And all the adults and children who are not important to the story have names like “Broomrack” and “Hearthrug”!
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Categories: Fiction, Incredibook!, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Easy Read, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Quick Read, Tedd Arnold
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William is taking a bath, and his mother tells him not to run the faucet more than a minute longer. But when his brother Walter tries to make the water come out faster and the handle breaks off, William is in for a wild ride down the whole apartment building!
This one is absolutely hilarious. As William and the bathtub go from floor to floor, the downstairs neighbors are swept into the current and join the fun. The neighbors’ names and their “boats” all rhyme. For instance, “Patty Fuzzle steered her puzzle.” I still read this one!
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Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Incredibook!, Mysteries, Review
Tags:Animals, Dogs, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Jim Kjelgaard, Out of Print
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In the Mahela forest, Ted Harkness lives with his father Al in a cabin. Everybody is after Damon and Pythias, supposedly the biggest bucks anywhere. To promote his hunting lodge, Ted’s employer Carl Thornton, asks Ted to get one of the two deer for him to hang on his wall. There’s only one catch: Carl wants Ted to hunt out of season. Ted refuses and Carl fires him. When Al finds out, he and Ted open a hunting camp for deer season. However, Ted’s on his own when Al is falsely accused of shooting a man and has to go on the run.
There’s a lot going on here. I love it when you have to follow multiple plots, and this is one of Jim Kjelgaard’s best multi-plot stories. Double Challenge has a lot of interesting parts. The characters are all very real and vivid. Well worth reading. Oh, as is usual with good books, Double Challenge is out of print. See our Book Tips Page for help finding out of print books.
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