What a lovely winter story.  A storm is moving in, but after the story the snow. The snow to play, great, and find love and peace.  A snow globe type of day.

This was a very interesting look at the Cuban culture, particularly the open-air markets.  There are lots of things to learn, and new words to discover.  In the back matter the author talks about why they wrote the book in a mix of English and Spanish, and about where the story comes from, travel restrictions, and the custom of eating 12 grapes on New Year’s Eve.  It was a wonderfully entertaining and educational story.

Need a quick laugh.  Pick up this book.  Cole wants to be an assistant knight, and he gets the chance from Sir Percival. Sir Percival was very afraid of the Underwear dragon in his dreams.  One day it is not a dream and the dragon eats everyone, except Cole, who uses his training to knock the underwear off the dragon and save the kingdom.  Like I said this was a lot of fun and good for some laughs.

I love Stone Arch easy readers.  They have such a big variety.  This one, Sammy Saw and the rest of the Tool Friends are going on a campout.  Nothing unusual, just a sold story for those beginning to read on their own.

This book is typical of the series.  It mentions early life quite a big, then skips to the major accomplishments.  It is nice that they chose a little known figure to American society (because she is Australian) and while I learned a bit about the indigenous tennis player, it was not enough to be memorable. 

Samson just wants to eat and try fancy food.  He is tired of the same thing day after day.  Most people find Piranha scary so when other dinners find out what he is they go screaming away.  This story is nice, but nothing special.  And the illustrations while well done are a bit dark and green and just make the entire thing unappealing.

The life cycle of a library book is an amazing thing.  Live this life with a little red book as they go from hands to hand, to home, to home.   This story was simple and amazing. 

Not one of the better Bob Shea books.  Bear just brought everyone donuts.  He and everyone else notice his wet pants and the bear goes about blaming every one of his friends for the accident.  The illustrations are great, but I just didn’t like this book.  It’s supposed to help kids know it’s okay if you have an accident, and while that is in the book, the bear’s anger was more prevalent.  I understand why so many love it, but this was a no for me.

This book is all about playing on the homophone tee/tea and a few others.  Granddad thinks he is taking his granddaughter to tee off at the golf course, and granddaughter thinks they are having tea for two on a picnic.  This book tries too hard.  It stretches out the homophone misunderstanding way too much.  Plus both characters have similar names and it was just all over the place.  This was not a book I enjoyed or would ever do for story time, but I can see other library users liking it.

This is a great non-fiction book for parents and babies.  I actually think of it as more a self-help book for adults than really for babies.  The information in it is great, I just wish the author did try so hard to rhyme.  It threw my off as a reader.  On some pages it worked great, and on others I felt it messed with the flow and the message.