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Tag: 2011 books
Review of the Day: EllRay Jakes is Not a Chicken by Sally Warner
EllRay Jakes is Not a Chicken! By Sally Warner Illustrated by Jamie Harper Viking (an imprint of Penguin) $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-670-06243-0 Ages 6-9 On shelves May 12th Quiz time. Place your books under your desks and bring out your #2 pencils. Everyone ready? All right. Reach back into your brain cells and please name for […]
Librarian Preview: Penguin Young Readers Group (Summer 2011)
I’d been feeling a bit guilty about Penguin recently. If my calculations are correct (and I think that they are) I haven’t been to a Penguin preview since April of 2010. The timing just never worked out! I do hold down a 9-5 job in the library, after all, so angling my free days to […]
Librarian Preview: Egmont (Spring & Summer 2011)
All right! Egmont time! A time for monted eggs (wait . . . . what?). Yes, Egmont doesn’t always put on a librarian preview, but once in a while they do and I was pleased to partake of their copious heaps of cheese (cheese = always good) when seeing the latest titles they have on […]
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