Wed, February 13th, 2013
The Seven Tales of Trinket by Shelley Moore Thomas
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: Trinket has never “loved anything so much as a story.” Of course, that does not include her mother, who she loved dearly. But as the story opens, her mother is taking her last breaths and by page 11 Trinket is an orphan and I was fighting back tears. The Seven Tales of Trinket (Farrar 2012) [...]
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Wed, November 17th, 2010
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond & T. R. Simon
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: “It’s funny how you can be in a story but not realize until the end that you were in one.” Zora and Me (Candlewick, 2010) spins the story of author Zora Neale Hurston’s childhood in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated black town in America. Told from best friend Carrie’s perspective, the novel begins with [...]
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Wed, August 11th, 2010
Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: Jack tales have to be among my favorite folktales and when you have one written by a special author and combine that with a tribute to storytelling and feature dessert, you know up front how I will feel about this book! Clever Jack Takes the Cake (Random House/Schwarz & Wade, 2010) is an original [...]
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