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Month: August 2012

  • The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum

    I continue my Oz reading with this second installment of Baum’s fantastical world.  I know that I’ll read at least one more if not two in the series. Plot:  Let’s get one thing out of the way: Dorothy is not in this one.  Our story opens in the Country of the Gillikins, the northern land…

  • The Squish Series by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm

    Jennifer L. and Matthew Holm continue the amusing tone set in their Babymouse graphic novels with their new series Squish.  Last week I read the first two installments to my 5 year old daughter. Plot: Squish is a young amoeba who lives in a pond floating with other microorganisms including paramecium and planaria.  But life…

  • The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

    Any children’s librarian worth her salt (or his salt, in my case) needs to be familiar with L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz.  For my part, I have decided recently to read at least the first 3 or 4 books in the series.  I wanted to move beyond the initial book that Hollywood…

  • The Ravenmaster’s Secret by Elvira Woodruff

    Synopsis:  The year is 1735 and the place is the Tower of London.  Forrest Harper is an 11 year old boy who is the son of the prison’s Ravenmaster.  His days are spent tending to the birds, playing with his rat catching friend Ned, and providing meals to some of the prisoners.  Forrest longs for…