Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
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THE REVIEW
The Christmas Wish
by Lori Evert , illustrated by Per Breiehagen
Age Range: 3 - 8
I chose to do a children's book today because it is a Holiday book and it got a "Buy It" from Kirkus. Kirkus does not use the star system when reviewing books. Their system of rating is "Buy It" (Thumb up), "Borrow It" (Thumb up), or "Skip It" (Thumb down). This sounds like a really cute book and I would read it myself and with my nephew.
KIRKUS REVIEW
Make a wish—for a truly magical Christmas story with supersized photographs of a darling little girl napping with a polar bear, meeting a reindeer and flying across the snowy sky in Santa’s sleigh.
The little girl, Anja, lives somewhere “so far north that the mothers never pack away the wool hats or mittens.” That snowy land is presumably Norway, where the book’s photographer and author live with their real-life daughter, Anja, the charming model dressed in traditional Scandinavian clothing for the striking photographs that illustrate the story. The fictional Anja dreams of becoming one of Santa’s elves, and one snowy day in December, she sets off on her skis to find Santa Claus. She is helped by talking animals, including a reindeer who leads her to Santa in his sleigh. Santa allows Anja to drive the sleigh and delivers her back to her snow-covered home with a gift of a magical bell. The superb photographs are, of course, digitally composed, but with such skill that little Anja really seems to be riding on the back of a polar bear, skiing down a mountainside or flying through the sky in Santa’s sleigh. The photographs use lovely backgrounds of snowy trees, sparkling icicles and the northern lights to create an enchanted atmosphere echoed by the text, which unfolds in fairy-tale cadences.
A captivating Christmas story with a magic all its own. (Picture book. 3-8)
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THE LIST
I wanted to really do something different with the list today. I like to hear what the readers have to say. I do not mind professional lists put together by say a site that reviews only books or the section of a popular newspaper that also only reviews books. I wanted to hear what the readers have to say. So I went to Listopia on goodreads.com I wanted to post the most anticipated books for 2014, but they appeared to all be in the YA category or in a series (and not the first or second, in some cases it was the 5th or 6th book in the series!) So, if you did not know, now you do, my favorite genre is horror. So this list caught my eye (especially because I have so many books marked as "To Be Read" for this genre). So I present to you a link to:
Best Horror Books by People Other Than Steven King Best Horror Books
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