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Welcome to the Dollhouse

Excellent elementary exercises in Everything I Need to Know Before I’m Five by Valorie Fisher.

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Feb 17 2012 | Comments: 0

Filed Under:  Growing    Language    Toys  

Angry Anymore

The Paradise Garden by Colin Thompson.

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Feb 10 2012 | Comments: 0

Filed Under:  Friends & Neighbors    Quiet Please    Town & Country  

Room With a View

Everyone’s wrong in Sergio Ruzzier’s The Room of Wonders.

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Feb 04 2012 | Comments: 0

Filed Under:  Animals    Art    Foreigners    Treasures  

Shrink to Fit

Dreams of a father in When You Were Small by Sara O’Leary and Julie Morstad.

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Jan 25 2012 | Comments: 1

Filed Under:  Growing    Parents  

The Unredeemed

Hucksters and flotsam in Three by the Sea by Mini Grey.

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Jan 19 2012 | Comments: 0

Filed Under:  Animals    Friends & Neighbors    Misfits & Renegades  

Ishfully Ever After

Peter H. Reynolds on artists gone wild.

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Jan 11 2012 | Comments: 0

Filed Under:  Art    Hobbies    Misfits & Renegades  

Now We Are Done

Choices, shmoices in Bob Staake’s The Donut Chef.

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Jan 04 2012 | Comments: 0

Filed Under:  Food    Holiday    Quiet Please  

That’s Entertainment!

Deep in the Jungle by Dan Yaccarino.

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Dec 28 2011 | Comments: 0

Filed Under:  Animals    Death    Executive Decisions of Our Time  

Creep Silently

Consolations of winter in The Tomten and the Fox by Astrid Lindgren, Harald Wiberg, Karl-Erik Forsslund and generations of Scandinavians who would know. 

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Dec 19 2011 | Comments: 0

Filed Under:  Folklore    Foreigners    Holiday    Seasons  

Into the Mild

Same nuts, different view in Scaredy Squirrel by Mélanie Watt.

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Dec 11 2011 | Comments: 0

Filed Under:  Animals    Executive Decisions of Our Time    Foreigners    Scary  

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