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Book Review: A Day With Wilbur Robinson
When a young boy spends the night with his best friend Wilbur, he finds himself invited into a very strange household of exotic creatures; inventive, eccentric relatives; and gadgets of all kinds. As the boys search the grounds for grandfather's missing teeth, they have many interesting encounters until, when the teeth are found, the family celebrates with a pillow fight and they all spend the night in a tree.
In the morning, Wilbur's entire family sends his friend on his way with a family rendition of "Yes. We Have No Bananas," after which Wilbur apologizes for having shared such a dull time with his friend.
Read MoreBook Review: Rolie Polie Olie
Rolie Polie Olie isn't your typical robot kid; he recharges his head and mops the house. He's a bundle of energy as he bounces through his day and is then too wired to go to bed. Kids will love Olie's mischief-making, which lands him in a bunch of trouble. Olie apologizes, and everyone comes together for a happy ending.
Read MoreReview: Olivia Forms a Band
It's the 4th of July, and Olivia wants to start a band. When no one else in her family wants to join, she becomes a one-girl show. Of course, when it's finally time to go see the fireworks, she has lost interest.
Read MoreBook Review: The Dot
Vashti is convinced that she cannot draw. When her art teacher says, "just make a mark and see where it takes you," the girl stabs at the paper in fury, leaving a distinct dot. The teacher tells her to sign it and turn it in. Next day, Vashti sees her "drawing" hung on the wall in a gilded frame. She decides that she can do a better dot than that and ends up creating a whole exhibit of her dots. Her career as an artist has begun.
Read MoreBook Review: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Based on the true story of Philippe Petit, a French street performer living in New York City who specialized in tight rope walking, the events occurred in 1974. Petit decided that he wanted to walk from one of the towers of the World Trade Center to the other. At that time the towers were still under construction, so Petit and a friend dressed up as construction workers and managed to bring a four-hundred-and forty-pound spool of cable to the roof of one of the towers. With the help of two additional friends on the opposite tower, they connected the cable from one tower to the other. Early on the morning of August 7, 1974, Petit spent an hour at one thousand three hundred and forty feet in the air, walking and performing from one of the Twin Towers to the other.
Read MoreReview: The Cat Who Walked Across France
The cat of the title lives with an old woman in a stone house by the edge of the sea in southern France. When the woman dies, the cat and all of her belongings are shipped north to where the woman was born. A map on the back cover shows that they had been living on the Mediterranean in St. Tropez and that the cat was shipped north past Paris to Rouen.
The cat?s longing to be home is so strong that he sets out on a long, solitary trek across France. He travels through cities and in the countryside, occasionally encountering kindhearted people, but no one takes him in. His strong instincts and memories of life by the sea draw him on toward the south. He makes it back home at last to the stone house at the edge of the sea. Thin but healthy, he is taken in by the children who have moved into the house.
Read MoreBook Review: Jackie and the Shadow Snatcher
Forgetful Jackie and his brave bulldog, Baxter, go on a hunt to find his missing shadow. With the guidance of Mr. Socrates (billed as the smartest man alive), Jackie decides to take on the nefarious Shadow Snatcher, and he can only hope he'll make it home before his mother does!
Read MoreReview: Pigsty
Pigs, pigs, pigs! Pigs lying on the bed. Pigs performing music. Pigs playing Monopoly. Wendell's messy room lures one pig, then others--all of them messier than he is. This hilarious story answers the question, "What happens if a child never cleans his room?"
Read MoreReview: Ginger
A little girl provides Ginger, a mature cat, with delicious meals and a comfy basket. But one day an exuberant kitten interrupts Ginger's repose.
"He'll be a nice new friend for you, Ginger," says the little girl, but Ginger strongly disagrees. The kitten pesters poor Ginger nonstop, pouncing on him, eating from his dish, and invading his basket. Fed up, Ginger runs away.
The kitten amuses itself for awhile, scratching furniture and making messes, but somehow things are no fun without Ginger. Also noticing Ginger's absence, the little girl discovers him outdoors, sheltering from the rain under a bush, cold and miserable. Bringing Ginger indoors, she gives each pet a special meal, and provides the kitten with a little cardboard box so it won't try to get into Ginger's basket anymore. Later she finds both Ginger and the kitten wedged contentedly into the little box, friends at last!
Read MoreReview: Dog Gone
Otis, the dog narrator, has been left by his owners for a stay at the Misty Meadow dog hotel. The place is nice and the dogs are friendly, but it is not home, and that is the only place Otis wants to be. He remembers a story that his owner Lucy told him about a cat and two dogs who make it back home over wild, strange country. Otis decides to do the same.
On his adventure he bolts over thorny hedges (hay stacks), fords dangerous rivers (a creek), and escapes fearsome beasts (a group of sheep munching disinterestedly on a hillside). Deciding that his escape has been ill advised, he returns willingly to the friendly safety of Misty Meadow where he stays happily until his owners return.
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