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Saying Grace: A Prayer of Thanksgiving by Virginia Krull and illustrated by Timothy Ladwig is a lovely new book on the importance of prayer and gratitude for our blessing. Although saying grace or blessing our food wasn’t a new idea among early American settlers and the custom was ...
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Virginia Woolf
Yum! ¡MmMm! ¡Qué Rico! Americas’ Sproutings is a fantastic collection of haiku by Pat Mora accompanied by illustrations from Rafael López.
Have you ever thought about where some of your favorite foods come from? This Thanksgiving as you sit down to pumpkin or pecan pie, mashed ...
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My father-in-law has often joked (but totally serious) that Spanish is the language that we speak in heaven. He loves the language. He’s fluent in Spanish and uses it on a daily basis in his work and my mother-in-law recently learned it as well while they attended an all Spanish ...
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blog.mawbooks.com - 5 days ago
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I’m excited today to have amazing author Bonny
Becker guest posting on my blog. If you don’t...
know Becker from her adorable new book A Birthday for Bear or from the cute A Visitor for Bear among her other wonderful books including My ...
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Guest Post: Author Bonny Becker – Have We Gone ...
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When I last reviewed A Visitor for Bear and interviewed the author , I was ecstatic to know that there were more books about Bear and Mouse in the works and A Birthday for Bear by Bonny Becker and illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton is one of those books that I’m thrilled to share ...
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Greg Bear
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead is the perfect realistic fiction book with a fantasy twist. It’s a mystery too. As well as a coming of age, friendship book. In fact, When You Reach Me dabbles a little in many genres. In a short 197 pages, this book packs a punch! From what ...
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Rebecca Wells
Well, if you are a regular reader around here you will notice the increased number of book reviews for picture books the last couple of weeks. If you don’t recall , I’m currently serving as a panelist for the Cybils (Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary ...
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The New York Times Bestseller List
November 15, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
FORD COUNTY, by John Grisham. Stories set in rural Mississippi.
THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons.
KINDRED IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the brutal murder of a ...
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Okay folks. Surely you’ve seen this book around haven’t you? Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld . I’d seen the cover before but had never taken the time to pick it up and so I was a tad excited when it was a book read by our fabulous librarians at ...
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Duck! Rabbit!
Tom Clancy
Amy Tan
My boys LOVE LOVE LOVE this book. The Book That Eats People by John Perry and illustrated by Mark Fearing is the book that they have been picking out of my huge stack of picture books all week. We read it at least three times straight through the first time I brought it home and then at ...
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Mark Twain
I really want to share A Penguin Story by Antoinette Portis with you. It’s so fun. Great story, great design, great color. It was so much fun to read. But how can I even begin to review it when Betsy at Fuse #8 has already written a review which would put my feeble attempt to ...
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The Betsy
I’m thrilled to interview Jean Reagan, a local Utah author whom I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with in person a couple of times. I swear if I make it up to the Teton National Park I must have Jean Reagan as my guide. I’ve just reviewed Jean’s picture book Always My ...
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Jean Rhys
Always My Brother by Jean Reagan and illustrated by Phyllis Pollema-Cahill is a very touching book and fills a need for books written for grieving children. In this lovingly written story, Becky and her brother John do everything together. Like running barefoot in the snow, playing soccer, ...
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Jean Rhys
You wouldn’t know it from reading my blog but I used to pick up the occasional motivational book. Step Back from the Baggage Claim: Change the World, Start at the Airport by Jason Barger has taken me back to a genre that I have regretfully left behind. I have found that it’s ...
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Airport
blog.mawbooks.com - 23 days ago
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The Curious Garden by Peter Brown had me
in love as soon as I laid my eyes...
on it. See, my other love is gardening. If I wasn’t blogging about books than I probably would be blogging about gardening. I’m not a pro by any means but I love gardening so much that I did get my Master Gardener ...
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The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
What is it like to experience colors if you are blind? This is the question that The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin and Rosana Faria asks and attempts to answer. This book of colors is lacking in the color department and that’s a good thing. Instead, it is completely black ...
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In Standing Still by Kelly Simmons , Claire trades in the life of a journalist for that of a stay-at-home mom. Late one night Claire hears a noise on the roof, goes upstairs and discovers an intruder in her daughters room trying to abduct her. Claire utters three words which would change ...
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In The Next Thing On My List by Jill Smolinksi June Parker attends a Weight Watchers meeting that will change her life – but not how you would think. She gives a ride home to Marissa whom she’s only met for the first time that night. As Marissa reaches behind her for a taco soup ...
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blog.mawbooks.com - 29 days ago
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How can I not love All the World
by Liz Garton Scanlon when it’s illustrated by Marla...
Frazee? I adore Frazee. And All the World is no exception. How does Frazee do it? I discovered Frazee last year (links to other reviews at end of post) and am still in shock with how much I just love her ...
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All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon, Illustrated by ...
