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Book Thoughts: My Father’s Dragon (Gannett)

Type: beginner chapter bookAges: 4-7Author: Ruth Stiles GannettIllustrator: Ruth Chrisman Gannett The only other thing I’d add to my bullet points is that running away from our problems is usually not the best solution. 🙂 But it’s a beginner chapter…

Book Thoughts: All-of-a-Kind Family (Taylor)

Type: chapter bookAges: 7-11Author: Sydney Taylor *This could have been a perfectly charming book that illuminates a Jewish family’s life and customs, but I was reading this to fairly young children (a common age for this chapter book) and was…

Book Thoughts: America: A Patriotic Primer (Cheney)

Type: non-fiction long picture bookAges: 5+Author: Lynne CheneyIllustrator: Robin Preiss Glasser This book is so well done! From the incredible artwork to the overall organization of the information, it is a treasure. Children need to be taught history in order…

Book Thoughts: Apple Pie 4th of July (Wong)

Type: picture bookAges: 4-7Author: Janet S. WongIllustrator: Margaret Chodos-Irvine We checked out this book since it’s occasionally promoted for the holiday. If I was asked yay or nay on it, it’d be just over the line toward nay. It wasn’t…

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