Filling each spread, Dyer's (illustrator of the Piggins books and of Baby Bear's Bedtime Book ) commanding yet gentle, large-scale watercolors are the key to the appeal of this bedtime lullaby. Fox ( Possum Magic ; Guess What? ) offers sweet but slim verse that bids good night to a selection of animals being cuddled and coddled by their mothers, all endearingly rendered at eye-level.
Some bored farm animals turn different vehicles into pirate ships for fun, to create excitement. It was a slow morning on the farm. All the animals were bored. There was nothing to do. Nothing at all .....
Added by: Au_claire | Karma: 26.92 | Fiction literature | 9 January 2011
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The Unadulterated Cat
The Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett is a book written to promote what Pratchett terms the 'Real Cat', a cat who urinates in the flowerbeds, rips up the furniture, and eats frogs, mice and sundry other small animals. The opposite of the Real Cat is the 'Fizzy Keg Cat', a well-behaved and bland kind, as seen on cat food advertisements.
Designed for babies ages 3-18 months, in CURIOUS BUDDIES: LET’S GO TO THE FARM there’s so much for babies to see, hear, and feel at the farm! Take a hay ride, tend the animals, pick crops, milk the cows, discover different farm animals, examine sizes, textures, and colors, and dance, clap, play, learn, and laugh along with the Curious Buddies.
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.44 | Fiction literature | 2 November 2010
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The Fright of the Iguana
This is the fifth in a cute and cozy series, Linda O. Johnston has created the Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter Mystery Series, and as always this one is funny and intense. Kendra may be a lawyer but when it comes to animals she focuses her attention on keeping them safe. Kendra's fast thinking, witty comebacks and a cast of cute animals and characters make this an enjoyable read. This reader's biggest problem with this mystery was the amount of romance. Kendra spends a lot of time trying to stay out of the arms of both Jeff and her vet, Tom. This left this reader feeling like this one might be a cross-over into the romance field.
