Connecting the Dots
My thoughts on art, books & life.
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Violet and the Mean and Rotten Pirates by Richard Hamilton, Read by Bill Wallis
This is a book my whole family listened to on a recent road trip. Pirates find an abandoned ship and in their hopes to find treasure they find a baby instead. They decide to keep the baby and name her Violet and call her Vile for short. These pirates are not all bad...
Caroling for Christmas
We are excited to participate in the Blog Advent Tour 2008 this year. Special thanks to Marg and Kailana for hosting this event and you really should go and see all the blogs that are particpating. Check out the other advent posts for today at Jane from...
We got a Blog Award!!!!!!!!!
Book Scoops has received the Butterfly for the Coolest Blogs I ever know from Jama Rattigan. We are honored and excited to receive this award. As such, we will be passing on the award to some of the blogs 5-10 blogs. Now there are lot of blogs we like and think are...
December Carnival of Children’s Literature is over at…
. . . Jen Robinson's Book Page. If you want to see some of the favorite and best posts from 2008. Of course we are there, with Rapunzel's Revenge and there are lots and lots of great posts. Go check it out. Cari & Holly *picture from Public Domain Pictures.net
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
I finally got a chance to read the third book in the Inheritance series. I put it on hold at the library and I was number 1,000 plus. So almost three months later I finally got to read it. Yeah! For those of you who don't know about the series Paolini became a New...
The Twelve Days of Christmas Reads
When we first set a goal to do do the Twelve days of Christmas on our blog, we had no idea that if we did it just like the song, that would be 364 books (albeit lots of repetition), and if we just do 12 books for the 12th day, 11 for 11 and so on . . . that would be...
Giving Books for Christmas
If you are dedicated to giving books for Christmas, then what do you do for those on your list who are not book people? Or who think they are not readers? Well, here are some ideas for including books in ways that just might inspire a new convert to literature. I'm a...
Alphabet Books 8-14
The Icky Bug Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta Illustrated by Ralph Masiello I thought this book was okay. My daughter liked looking at the pictures of all the different "bugs", which included spiders and insects. I liked that it had a little bit of information for each...
Bee & Me by Elle J. McGuinness illustrated by Heather Brown
Brilliant colored illustrations combined with technology called animotion, will pull you in to this lovely book. For those 'scanimation' aficionados who enjoyed Rufus Butler Seder's Gallop! Here is a similar book to enjoy. Bee Me goes a step beyond the primarily...
Rapunzel’s Penance
Tonight I went to the King's English Bookshop because 1) I wanted to support my local bookstore and 2) all the Hales were going to be there - you know the ones Shannon, Dean and no relation Nathan of Rapunzel's Revenge. 3) My daughter (munchkin #1) is totally in love...
