"Open This Little Book" -Jesse Klausmeier

It's a book inside a book inside a book inside a book inside a book...is that enough? Oh wait, in a book. It's a lot of fun as stories join each other and the books get smaller!

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Book speaks: a poem about books by Laurie Purdie Salas Lane Smith's

It's a Book is a great book of dry humor about the difference between books and electronics. And for some reason, I feel I should mention this book too.

Annie and Snowball and the Book Bugs Club by Cynthia Rylant is about Annie and her pet bunny joining a reading program at their library.

"Pericles: Prince of Tyre" -William Shakespeare

Every once in a while, I read a Shakespeare play. First, to keep my skill up and second, I want to read all of them eventually.

Pericles is on the run, wins a princess by in a contest, and marries her. His wife gives birth during a storm on a ship as they travel back to Tyre. The wife dies and Pericles leaves the child with a nurse. The wife lives, the child is run off by the jealous nurse, and in a classic Shakespeare Act V, they all find each other in the end.

Pericles is one of the easier plays of Shakespeare I've ever read. There is a lot more rhyming and it's fairly short.

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Some parts are like the fairy tale, Snow White.

Others are like the myth of Hippolyta and Atalanta.

Still more like The Princess Bride.

"The Grand Plan to Fix Everything" -Uma Krishnaswami

I was excited to read this book. I'd compiled a list of books for a girl at the library based on her interest in Ivy & Bean. This and its sequel came up.

Dini and her friend Maddie love Bollywood films. When Dini finds out her family is going to India for 2 years, they plan for Dini to meet their favorite star, Dolly Singh. What follows is a lot of movie "bloopers" as Dini maneuvers her new world of Swapnagiri, India.

The writing style is not so good. Krishnaswami writes the main character, Dini, as if she's planning a screenplay. I can see how it would be cute but it didn't come off that way. After a while, it made reading a little confusing.

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Ivy & Bean by Annie Barrows, of course.

Jane Birdsall's The Penderwicks: a summer tale of 4 sisters, 2 rabbits, and a very interesting boy.

"Ferno, the Fire Dragon" -Adam Blade

I really just needed a break from posting after NaBlaPoMo. Was a little posted out and even now, I chose a 78-page children's book. In it's favor, my 6-year old nephew recommended the series to Jane.

Tom is the son of great warrior who died on a quest. When the kingdom becomes in danger when all the beasts that use to protect the kingdom are turned against it by dark magic. Tom is hired for the quest and is joined along the way by Elenna. Together they save the dragon and begin a journey to save all the beasts and the kingdom. This is an interesting series. Each book deals with a different mythological creature.

Ferno is 1 of 6 in the "Beast Quest" series, although there are upwards of 70 books in the collection.

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The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander.

The Knights at Dawn from the "Magic Tree House" series by Mary Pope Osborne. Or many other books in the series for both subject and reading level.

"The Dolls Christmas" -Tasha Tudor

Kickin' off the Christmas Season...

Just a simple story of 2 girls who create Christmas for their dolls and their friends' dolls.

Read Also:

Elvira Woodruff's The Christmas Doll.

Cynthia Rylant's Little Whistle's Christmas about a mouse celebrating the holidays.