The Moonlight School – Suzanne Woods Fisher
(Note: I listened to this on audio. Please forgive any terrible misspellings of names.)I admit that this book first grabbed my attention because of the beautiful cover, and then the story concept itself, but since I hadn’t read the author before, I decided to get it on audio instead of physical copy. I am often …
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales – Jon Scieszka
The Stinky Cheese Man is a postmodern deconstruction of classic fairy tales, weaving bits of them into a hilarious and somewhat subversive new book. In the beginning, we see bright red text emphasizing the voice of the Little Red Hen, shrill and obtrusive in contrast to the calm black text of the narrator, Jack. In …
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales – Jon Scieszka Read More »
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
What is the key theme of the story? The key theme of this story is where the child is where the child has been told off by his mum and sent to his room and he is not happy with what he has been told and he goes to his room and starts creating …
The Indebted Earl – Erica Vetsch
The Napoleonic Wars are over, the Emperor has been exiled to the island of Elba, and all is right with the world. Except it isn’t. An injured sea captain is watching as one of his men lays dying in a naval hospital in Portugal, a man who saved his life and who will now leave …
The Home-Maker – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Evangeline Knapp is down on her knees, scrubbing frantically, breathlessly and yet unsuccessfully, at a line of grease spots on her kitchen floor; her youngest son, clutching his beloved and very grubby teddy bear, watches warily from the door of the dining room before disappearing again, both relieved and somehow disappointed to remain unseen and …
The Paris Dressmaker – Kristy Cambron
Five perfect stars. This book tells the story of two women, Sandrine and Lila, and their lives during the Nazi occupation of France. Lila is a dressmaker, and Sandrine records the transportation of art that has been stolen by the nazis. Both are also working for the French Resistance. The writing in this novel is …
Columbine – Dave Cullen
Godlike emotions Eric and Dylan were just kids. Something or someone must have led them astray. The parents, the Harrises and Klebolds, were the chief suspects. Virtually all the early news stories were infested with erroneous assumptions and comically wrong conclusions. All sorts of culprits contributing to the tragedy sprang to life incredibly fast: violent …
Pereira Maintains – Antonio Tabucchi
What a wonderfully cunning and slippery piece of work this is, pretending to lull us into torpor along with its sweating, overweight protagonist in the sweltering Portuguese summer, but constantly nudging and needling our conscience, just as the rather inept young revolutionary Massimo Rossi nudges and needles Pereira. Pereira is the cultural editor of a …