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BOOK REVIEW: The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
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Finished reading this book aloud to my children today and we are in love with the characters in this series and can’t wait to read more!
This is the 2nd in the 1920s Dr. Dolittle series, but the first we’ve read. My 9.5yr old was enthralled with the British Doctor who can speak to animals. The doctor isn’t magic, he simply learns the languages of all the animals– an intriguing concept! 
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BOOK REVIEW: The Remarkable & Very True Story of Lucy & Snowcap
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I found this on the library bookshelf and was intrigued…Just finished it today…was reading to see if my 9.5yr old would like it and if it was appropriate. I am handing it to her with a big thumbs up!
This is the story of 2 very hard headed and mostly unlikable (by their peers) girls from 2 very different cultures. Snowcap is the orphaned daughter of shipwrecked convicts from England in the late 1700s. Lucy is a native of the island on which they shipwrecked. The typical British invasion of native lands occurs and they take over, establishing a colony.
BOOK REVIEW: Gentle Ben
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I can’t believe I never read this book as a child. I would have loved it! I recently finished reading this book to my 9yr old and both agreed it was a great book!
A little boy befriends and tames a brown bear in Alaska, before its statehood. The small town in which they live is less than keen on this, and the boy’s family is forced to make some hard choices. There’s a couple little twists in this story that keep the plot very interesting all the way through.
BOOK REVIEW: The Tail of Emily Windsnap
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My daughter and I just loved this story about a little girl (Emily) that finds out she is half mermaid. Her mother is phobic about water and doesn’t allow her daughter to ever enter the water even though they live on a houseboat surrounded by water! When she finally does experience being submerged in water Emily finds out that it causes her to turn into a mermaid! At that point her story gets really interesting as she learns her father (who has been absent from her life) is a real-live mer-man! Adventures ensue as she makes friends with a mermaid her age & seeks out her long-lost father underwater.
BOOK REVIEW: The Mysterious Benedict Society
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This was an AMAZING book! My daughter and I were absolutely on the edge of our seat reading this together (I read it aloud to her when she was 8). I recommend it to everyone! Here’s my original review of this book.
It does have a sort of dark feel at times…but nothing that got to the point that I felt we shouldn’t be reading it. I’m very particular in the books I read aloud to my children, and have even stayed away from books like Harry Potter (so far…we will read them when I feel my children are ready) because of what I’ve heard from friends about the violence and intensity in them. This book did start to go in that direction at times, but never over the top, in my opinion. It had just a touch of violence in it (a child gets beaten briefly at one point, for example) but its very brief, not drawn out, and its not irrelevant to the story or the characters.
