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Mon, January 30th, 2012
Worst of Friends by Suzanne Tripp Jurmain
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Lynn: Jurmain opens her charming book, Worst of Friends:  Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the True Story of an American Feud (Penguin/Dutton 2011) by asking a most intriguing question, “Can Presidents be pals?”  In many cases the answer was no.  “Theodore Roosevelt thought McKinley had the backbone of a chocolate eclair.”  But sometimes the answer was [...]


Mon, December 5th, 2011
Magic Trash by J. H. Shapiro
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Lynn: Polka-dot houses, broken dolls hanging from telephone poles, old shoes in trees  – for 25 years Tyree Guyton has created controversial art in a special place.  Magic Trash:  A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art (Charlesbridge 2011) is an exuberant celebration of Guyton’s Heidelberg Project in East Side Detroit. Tyree’s mother worked hard [...]


Fri, November 11th, 2011
Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Lynn: Hazel and Jack have been like two peas in a pod ever since Jack moved in next door when they were six.  He was wearing a pirate patch and was the only person she knew “who saw things the way they could be instead of just what they were.”  Years later, when he suddenly [...]


Wed, November 2nd, 2011
Missing on Superstition Mountain by Elise Broach
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Cindy: Elise Broach, forgive me, but THIS was the book that I was supposed to write! Missing on Superstition Mountain (Holt 2011) is far better than anything I would have written…but still! My grandparents moved from New York state to be in Zane Grey country sixty odd years ago and settled on a couple of [...]


Fri, September 30th, 2011
Pie by Sarah Weeks
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Cindy: I picked up Pie (Scholastic 2011) a few months ago to read as a palate cleanser between review books. It had a pie and a cat on the cover and looked like a lighthearted read. I live in Michigan and it was prime berry season when I started writing this post in early August. I didn’t know [...]


Wed, September 21st, 2011
Masterwork of a Painting Elephant by Michelle Cuevas
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Lynn: Once upon a time there was an elephant called Birch who dreamed of beauty and a boy named Pigeon who lived on Birch’s back.  Pigeon never leaves Birch’s back – never ever.  He has everything he needs and even goes to 5th grade from the safety of the elephant’s back because elephants are so [...]


Mon, September 12th, 2011
Big Wig by Kathleen Krull
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Lynn: Did you know that Cleopatra believed a concoction of horse teeth, deer marrow and roasted mice would cure baldness?  Or that Queen Elizabeth I had more than eighty wigs – all in shades of red?  Or that Japanese skin doctors invented hair implants in 1939?  I could go on and on but really you [...]


Fri, September 2nd, 2011
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Cindy: There are books that make me sad. Some that make me cry. And then there are books that unhinge me like A Monster Calls (Candlewick 2011). I read this on a plane last spring and was crying from the forward explaining the back story. Siobahn Dowd, one of my favorite authors, lost her life [...]


Mon, August 15th, 2011
Drawing from Memory by Allen Say
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Lynn: I am fascinated by stories of an artist’s journey and how better to tell that story than through illustration!  Renown illustrator Allen Say tells his story from his early years in Japan to his immigration to the United States with text, pen and ink drawings, watercolor paintings and family photographs.  Drawing from Memory (Scholastic [...]


Mon, August 8th, 2011
Sidekicks by Dan Santat
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Lynn: Inquiring minds want to know!  What happens when a superhero sneezes?  If you guessed that it wouldn’t be pretty, you guessed right.  Captain Amazing is allergic to peanuts and when his symptoms are triggered by a stray groundnut it is clear he needs an assistant.  His lonely pets agree – he’s never home with [...]





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