Entries Tagged as 'Ducks'

I Love You Just Enough

March 26th, 2014 · No Comments · Books

Review By HOMA WOODRUM Though billed as the fifth book in the “Hazel Ridge Farm” series, I Love You Just Enough is a great standalone picture book. Written by a husband and wife team, Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen (words) and Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen (painted illustrations), it tells the story of a young girl named Heather […]

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Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type

April 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Introduce little ones to the ideas of worker’s rights, justice and compromise through the 32 funny and colorful pages of Click, Clack, Moo. The cold farm cows are on strike until they receive electric blankets and they let Farmer Brown know through type-written memos. Brown is agitated by the typewriter-using, […]

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Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg

April 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Mia Posada hatches a great children’s book that appeals to children’s curiosity and fascination with the natural world. She uses a couple rhyming sentences to hint at a mysterious animal in an egg before adding the refrain, “Can you guess what is growing inside this egg?” The watercolor and cut paper […]

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I Love Animals

March 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER KALI My toddler loves this book. Its simple repetitiveness keeps her interested to the end, when she often says, “Again.”  It starts with the statement “I love animals,” and each page is an expression of love for a different farm animal. “I love the ducks waddling to the water.  I love the donkeys […]

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