librarianryan's reviews
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I picked this on a whim hoping they might have a recipe for freezer slaw close to what my grandmother made. There was so much more. This wasn’t just simple canning. Everything is explained quite well with pictures and definitions. They’ve made it easy to start if you’re a newbie, but with enough creativity for those who are bored of the same old same old. 

 

This book is dense but highly interesting. I thought it would be a basic how to wrap gift book and it’s not. It heavily includes ideas behind gift giving or reciprocation, thoughts that go into not only the gift but the wrapping, etc. It looks incredibly complicated. However, the author has done a fantastic job of leaving notes and instructions with pictures to make it easier for novices. 

 

This is about all the little animals going to sleep. It’s an alphabet book that works from A-to-Z and I do appreciate that they choose different animals than is usually expected in A-Z animal books. The illustrations are fun, and kids will enjoy this. 

 

This book seems to be long on words and short on pictures. The story is nice for race car enthusiasts but other than that, this book drags. It’s not something I would read at Storytime or put on my shelf. 

 

This is a super beginning chapter book. It’s in full color and it’s as close to being a picture book as a chapter book can get. In this, we have a bunch of dragons that hear a roar and go searching for the sound. They make new friends and discover new things about the world and themselves on the way. This book is just fun. It doesn’t matter young or old it’s simple but with love. 

 

This book was lots of fun and so were the illustrations. It’s about two animals that hear strange noises at night find each other and then come to realize that the strange noises are them. They become new friends and a lot more fun. The illustrations are bright, colorful and funny. They are a perfect match to go with this. 

 

This is a first in a trilogy about Daphne and Velma from the Scooby gang. In this book they were friends but are now more… not enemies not quite Frenemies… at the beginning. They’re both 16 and driving and when Daphne‘s friend Marcy goes missing she’s going to need Velma‘s help to solve the case. We get glimpses of other members of the Scooby gang, but they are not big players in the story. The author started the series off where it can stand alone for those who don’t know, Scooby Doo, but enjoyed by those who have always been fans of Mystery Inc. This book is geared towards high school, but it would be appropriate for upper elementary and on. However, it’s a bit hard to find. Book one can still be found in various places, book two can be attained through interlibrary loan, but  book tree is only available as an e-book. Is that due to bad storytelling or lack of publishing… I think it’s lack of publishing. If I hadn’t tripped over this at Barnes & Noble, I would’ve never known about it. And while it’s not the best mystery in the world, it was still a fun ride that I thoroughly enjoyed. I’m happy to see books in the world of Mystery Inc. catered toward older kids and younger adults and I look forward to reading the next two books. 

 

This is a fun elementary level graphic novel. In this book Olivia clones are taking over a birthday party and a shopping center. But it will be up to Olivia, her grandma, and her friends to help feed the clones and save the party. Everything about this book just works. The illustrations are fun and colorful. The story is simple to follow. 

 

This book has lovely illustrations. It’s my favorite part of the entire book. They’re soft and cheerful and really feel like a hug. As for the story it is overly long. It’s almost like the author. Took two books and merged them into one. If the first half of the book was cut out and this was just the last half, where “I sent you a hug” and all the ways they send it, this book would’ve been perfect. But that extra stuff on what all a hug could be from the beginning just made it very hard to get through. It felt overly long and never ending at the same time. The story is there, I just don’t like it all together. 

 

This was a fun way to introduce kids to the concept of worry and what’s happening. In this book, worry is an animal that the child can see and talk to. It also shows how it doesn’t take much to change that worry into lots of worries. I like that this book because is not super preachy, and it doesn’t have some weird mnemonic device to remember. It just says this is what it is, and this is how you get help. It’s short and it just works.