I was once a fan of Emily the Stranger, and for the most part I still am, I have just grown away from that part of my life. This is a new titles to reinvigorate the series. Emily now has some help from new friends she reluctantly makes when she has to have a band to win a famous gutair.

I liked the reboot, and I can see many girls, and maybe a few guys who I know will love an enjoy this titles and wait for the next in the series.

An interesting book, but I am not sure I would buy it for my library. A pig and a bug try to be friends and find out that things are hard when you are two different sizes. But they do find things to do together like go to the movies. I am probably reading way more into it then most children ever will, but because of that its just not up to my liking. I makes me thing of obese children who have no friends because all the other kids are small or "normal".

I was expecting this to be a picture book , not an early chapter book, and that made me like it all the more. Every day Claude and his Sock Buddy find new and exciting things to do. For the first time ever there is snow on the ground, and they learn to sled, ski, and rescue someone from an avalanche. Plus, I enjoyed seeing what all Claude was going to pull out or put in his beret next.

I am sure most kids have wondered what all you could do if you had a pet dinosaur. Of course it does matter what type of dinosaur you have since after all, some would make good kites, and some would not. Some would be good bed makers, and others good bread eaters. I love the illustrations. They are a their own brand of comedic presence to go along with the story.

A kids relationship with his blanky is an important thing. But sometimes even best friends need to take a break from each other for things like school and laundry. If you have a child that is having a hard time leaving their security item at home, then this is the story to read.

Love, Love, Loved it! I had an oppertunity to meet and talk with Mr. Doctorow last summer at ALA and was astounded by his vibrance, his passion, and his taking stance on things he sees wrong in our world. You get that from reading any of his works be them full length novels, or powerfully written graphic novels like this one. It starts out with narrative on gaming in our world and how it effects the economy, and people globally. Then we enter our story.

As a somewhat gamer I see what he is talking about when a woman presents to her a class of students that there are not enough women, gaming as female characters. Its about empowerment, and that you have just as much empowerment out of the game as in the game and you see our main character Anda. She starts off playing for fun, but learns you can earn real money doing quests for other people. And just like she can earn real money, there are entire businesses in other countries whose job is to play the game and "farm" for gold that can inturn be sold for real money to other players. She learns that while gaming can be fun, it can also be hard work, and need work for others across the world, and that not everyone has thing as good as she does.

Loved this story, loved the message, loved the art. Love it. PERIOD!

Very intriguing. I thought this was just going to be another basic books on wizards approiate for the kids or teen collection, but I was greatly suprised at the depth of the stories. This title mixes this depth with great illustrations.

I read this as a child and loved the opertunity to come back to it as an adult. I still find it has the ability to enchant me with its mix of machines and dinosaurs, and the world that was created.

I will freely admit that if I had known ahead of time that the author of this book was married to a celebreity then I would have probably passed it right by thinking it was a vanity project. I am glad I picked it up because it was cute and I know some kids who would love it. There are a few times when I think the rhymes are a little hard to get out, but over all it had great illustraions, and a great message that says it's okay to be different.