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The Boy & the Book [a wordless story]

January 16th, 2016 · No Comments · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL I adored this book about a boy and an anthropomorphic book! It is a cute picture book introducing the topic of how to take care of books they love and a reminder to parents about helping their kids handle books with care as they start their journey towards reading. Bob Kolar’s […]

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The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict

January 7th, 2016 · No Comments · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL My daughter and I have attempted to read The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict (book 4, the prequel of The Mysterious Benedict Society bestselling series) several times- we’ve read the beginning three times! And yet we have only reached page 72 between reading together and separately- she got several chapters further […]

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Alice in Wonderland: Down the Rabbit Hole

October 1st, 2015 · No Comments · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Eating ‘shrooms, swallowing pills, smoking a “hookah”, bizarre experiences and visions as well as several other odd references lead many to question whether the original children’s story Alice in Wonderland had references to drugs. 150 years later (yes, this year is the anniversary of Alice in Wonderland!), research suggests Lewis Carroll, a […]

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Book of Life (2014)

November 14th, 2014 · No Comments · Movies

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL The movie “Book of Life” lived up to my expectations and then some. I absolutely loved the clever and detailed animation as well as the story within a story (within a story!). All the characters looked like marionettes and the colors were varied and vivid. Black and white was used beautifully […]

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