This is another book in a series of similar stories.  The illustrations are soft, colorful, and fun.  The story is a lesson on why teachers are a good thing.  Something many current adults need to remember.  This is a loving ode to teachers that is much appreciated. 

 

This was a really fun book.  It can be read in multiple ways.  When one needs a quick fun story, they can read the tale of the butterfly looking for the largest number.  When they need to know about big numbers, there are info bits about that, and there are info bits about other things of note such as life of a butterfly, or volts of electricity in a lightbulb.  Overall, this book works on many levels that kids will find fun. 

 

If you have ever watched Hulu’s the Handmaid‘s Tale, then you have the exact feeling of this book. This book reads as if it’s a continuation or companion to that series. Women are supposed to be subservient. Teen girls are not allowed to be around men and they are always to have a chaperone at all times. The book pulls you in from the beginning knowing that one of the chaperones has died. It could cause problems for her charge and the family for which she works. Unfortunately, for the first half of the book nothing really comes of it. It’s about our main character getting a new chaperone and the new chaperone, almost being an emancipator, trying to teach her that the world has taught her to be afraid of men and that she really shouldn’t be. It felt like Offred (from Handmaids tale show) didn’t get what she wanted, went back to Gilead. To give the children the freedom she didn’t have.  Overall, this book was boring. I DNFed it at 40%. The audiobook was dull and lifeless. It didn’t seem to be new, or have a unique spin, or anything to keep the reader’s interest. 

 

I am a sucker for cute romance, and that is exactly what you get with this first volume. Is this a little teen movie-ish? Absolutely. In part, it reminds me of She’s All That where the main character doesn’t want the cute boy or anything to do with him. Here our girl feverently believes that she absolutely will not fall in love. But then we spend the whole book with the cute boy, who happens to be an Idol, convincing her that she is worth getting to know. Then you get hit with the end to ensure that you pick up the next volume. I don’t completely understand idol life and some of the way it’s talked about, it’s biases etc, but I did thoroughly enjoy this book. While it’s very much “teen girl drama”, it puts a very happy smile on your face and makes you want to book 2. 

 

This was a fun elementary graphic novel about Tig and Lily. Tig is a house cat that thinks they’re a tiger and the Lily is a tiger that is now worried they are not really a tiger. These two form a cute friendship that is sure to lead to lots of trouble down the line. I enjoyed this book, but I do feel there is a certain population that might see this as a trans story even though it’s not and start banning it. This book is about acceptance of who you are and how you can be anything you want to be. It’s also about how you have and make friends and how they help you whenever you need it. This story was cute and fun and kids are going to love it. 

 

This book is very interesting. As all Covid things have now been considered done and over this book is more of a reminder, then I hope to get through. It would also be great for the next pandemic, when we are once again locked behind doors. This book stays to the hopeful and the exciting but mentioned that you don’t always get what you want or have what you need but you still had the world. 

 

Good things come in small packages. Sometimes good things aren’t so good when in large quantities. And that’s how I feel about these comics and cartoons. I do love seeing the random panels online or even daily on a calendar but all together in one book it’s just too much. There doesn’t seem to be any overarching storyline to keep you interested in turning the page. Maybe if I read these two pages a day instead of in one sitting, I would like it more.  This is one of those “too much of a good thing” situations. 

 

This was a beautiful introduction on how to make your own River style table with wood and resin. The author puts lots of thoughts into showing examples made by people other than the author. The instructions are easy to follow, and it seems like a doable project. Maybe not for beginning woodworkers but for those with a little bit of experience. I hope anyone trying to make a table themselves would get the beautiful results seen in this book. 

 

This is an odd little book. It’s also a sad little book. Two children find a hurt deer alongside, the road and take them home. They name this deer lion in lion becomes a member of the family. The kids needed a distraction and a new friend. They are still suffering from the loss of their mother. we see the family, including the grandmother and how they interact with lying and lying all yearning to be part of the forest beyond. There is a side story about another deer who is injured and taken in by a little grandmother figure deep in the woods, and how one day grandma doesn’t come back, and that deer has the house to themselves, and eventually lien finds this house towards the end of the book it’s that part that makes this book odd. Overall, the story is lovely but sad. A modern age Bambi if you well. I liked it and the artwork is lovely, but it is not something I wish to read again. 

 

I mostly like this book. I really like the illustrations. I think they’re well done and fun and attention grabbing. However, the font is horrible. It is very hard to read and should just be used for the title page. The story isn’t bad, but it ends abruptly. There is a cadence similar to the Night Before Christmas but tt is missed in some spots the the rhythm is broken. This could also be the reader reading the wrong word because they can’t tell the difference in the font and the size the words are in.