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Kaethe rated it

8 years ago

text Eugenia Lincoln and the Unexpected Package: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Four - Chris Van Dusen,Kate DiCamillo

What are the odds on finding affordable housing at the corner of Deckawoo Drive and Sesame Street? I really want to move to a place without racism or any of the other nasty hates that have been so apparent lately. A place where strangers are helpful, and the neighbors share in your good fortune. DeC...

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Kaethe rated it

8 years ago

text Something Wonky This Way Comes - Kate DiCamillo,Chris Van Dusen

http://pin.it/c61MXET How did I not notice before that Can Dusen paints everyone with the same skin color, same highlights and shadows? Everyone, including Mercy Watson, the pig. Different hair, facial features, head shapes, clothes, but the exact same skin (old people are all highlights and shado...

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RedT Reads Randomly rated it

12 years ago

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Almost as good as the best of Dr. Seuss

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Henry Martin - Author of contemporary Literary Fiction rated it

12 years ago

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Nice to see the same returning characters get in yet another hilarious situation. As always, the toast is the key. The wanna-be cowboy was priceless.

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Henry Martin - Author of contemporary Literary Fiction rated it

12 years ago

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Another porcine wonder success. I like the Lincoln sisters characters, and the always happy ending with the extra buttered toast.

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Henry Martin - Author of contemporary Literary Fiction rated it

12 years ago

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I'm a big fan of Kate DiCamillo, and this one made all of us smile. Nice to see there are new things on the horizon. As much as I enjoy reading her more complicated stories (Edward Tulane, Desperaux...) to the older kids, I enjoy reading these simpler stories to the younger crowd.

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AmySea rated it

12 years ago

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Our library has a service that enables us to read ebooks online. It's a pretty neat service; there's an option for audio narration, and the pictures can be animated. Sentences are displayed and highlighted during audio narration so kids can follow along if they wish to do so. We read Mercy Watson...

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AmySea rated it

12 years ago

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The kids and I usually enjoy a Mercy Watson book, but this one was not one of the better ones in the series. The story included far too many characters (everyone Mercy has ever met up to this point, I believe), and the story wasn't as funny as some of the other books in the series. The best part a...

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Peace, Love & Books rated it

12 years ago

text If I Built a House

A fun follow up to If I Built a Car. Budding inventor eight-year-old Jack turns his fanciful imagination to architecture.

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Affairs of M/Men rated it

13 years ago

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3.5 starsThe illustrations are nice although a little too cartoony for my taste. The story is sweet if a bit daft and the rhyming is done well, not forced. The best part were the pages near the end of the book where you have to look to find where the animals were hidden. A couple were too obvious bu...

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