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Drude posted Mitchi the little brown bear | 7 days ago
This book fascinated and traumatized me when I was a kid. The illustrations are fantastic of animals and plants in crazy colors and loads of funny little details. But I could never get past the page where the little bear realizes that evil humans had abducted his mommy while he was sleeping - or...
Lucy posted The Boy Who Swam With the Sea (start of a children's book by Lucy) | Jun 12, 2008
There once was a boy who swam with the sea. This is his story. You may not think it remarkable that he swam with the sea, but this took place in ancient times, when the sea was wilder than it is now. He was called Koses and his name sounded like the roar a wave makes joined to the hiss it sounds as...
orangerful posted book thoughts: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznik | Jun 3, 2008
This recent Caldecott Winner is hard to describe. You could say it is a graphic novel, but that would conjure up images of comic books and talk bubbles and it is nothing like that. You could say it was a heavily illustrated children's book. But that doesn't quite capture it either. I suppose the...
orangerful posted comic book thoughts: Amelia Rules! When the Past is a Present | Jun 1, 2008
The Amelia Rules! series is probably the best kids comic I've seen on our library's bookshelf, especially if you're a 10 year old girl. Amelia McBride is smart, sassy, but still normal and down-to-Earth. In a market where everything for girls is pink or focused on being a "Bratz" kind of kid, Amelia...
