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Allie Gator’s Halloween Hayride

October 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER KALI Allie Gator (a John Deere tractor) is excited to be pulling her first hayride. She will take the children through the cornmaze to the pumpkin patch. Just as she is about to begin, a black cat crosses her path, and her friends Corey Combine and Johnny Tractor (J.T.) warn that black cats are [...]

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Uncle Andy’s Cats

October 4th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Uncle Andy’s Cats is the imaginative story of artist Andy Warhol’s life with many, many cats. Young cat lovers will giggle at the silliness of 25 cats all named Sam running rampant through Andy Warhol’s home, but animal advocates will wince at the unapologetic, unexplained depiction of overbreeding. Eventually, author James Warhola’s (yes, he [...]

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Houndsley and Catina

September 20th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Books

Review By HOMA WOODRUM On vacation recently, I stopped into an independent bookshop that exclusively catered to children’s books and let them know I was looking for charming chapter books.  Moments later I had a number of books to choose from and was flipping through the first of four books in the Houndlsey and Catina [...]

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The Little Island

September 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY I love this book the way I love Goodnight, Moon. I love its simplicity. I love that it touches on the metaphysical, but does not dwell. And above all, I love its illustrations. Margaret Wise Brown wrote both books, and in each, her simple prose inspires calming, classical illustrations. Leonard Weisgard, [...]

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