Review By ROBYN MOORE Inside Mixed Beasts, you’ll find a collection of fictional beasts discovered by Zoologist and Professor Julius Duckworth O’Hare Esq. Each odd beast is a combination of two animals or two “things.” For example, there is a rhinocerostrich, a kangarooster, and a flamingocart. The book is set up as a field guide (a […]
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Mixed Beasts
January 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Tags: Animals·Ants·Creativity·Early Elementary·Frogs·Humor·Kenyon Cox·Older Elementary·Preschoolers·Robyn Moore·Wallace Edwards
Give Us a Chance
December 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By ROBYN MOORE In Give Us a Chance, author Jane Mann introduces us to those creatures “we love to hate or may not yet appreciate.” It’s a short book of 26 rhyming poems intended to provide some understanding of the animals who often get a bad rap—such as pigeons, magpies, spiders, toads, ants, and […]
Tags: Ants·Birds·Early Elementary·Insects·Jane Mann·Magpies·Older Elementary·Pigeons·Rats·Respect for Nature·Robyn Moore·Spiders
Ladybug Girl
April 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Wife-and-husband team Jacky Davis and David Soman have collaborated on a delightful book that follows preschool-aged Lulu through a morning when she must entertain herself. Proclaiming herself Ladybug Girl and flanked by her loyal dog Bingo, Lulu discovers that she’s fearless and powerful. She skips through a “lake” that may or may not […]
Tags: Ants·David Soman·Dogs·Early Elementary·Female Protagonist·Jacky Davis·Natural Living·Nature·Preschoolers·Sharks