Entries Tagged as 'Library'

Gabby and Grandma Go Green

July 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Author and illustrator Monica Wellington’s Gabby and Grandma Go Green is a very sweet book for young children about, yes, going green.  Little Gabby and her grandma spend the day together sewing reusable cloth bags, heading to the recycling center, going to the grocery store and declining the proffered grocery bag, shopping […]

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Calvin Can’t Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie

April 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Calvin is a young starling who is different from his three brothers, four sisters and sixty-seven thousand four hundred and thirty-two cousins (as this humorous book points out, starlings have big families).  When it comes time for the young starlings to discover the world around them, Calvin’s family members stick strictly […]

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Dewey: There’s a Cat in the Library!

November 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT When a filthy, near-frozen kitten turns up in the Book Return slot of the Spencer, Iowa library, the staff bathes him and christens him Dewey (a later contest would fill out his name to Dewey Readmore Books). Dewey’s adventures as a library cat are chronicled in Dewey: There’s a Cat in the Library! […]

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