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I finally received the book I won from this book giveaway – I admit I wasn’t that enthusiastic when I saw how old and tired-looking the book was…
Anyhow, I always believe: “Never judge a book by its cover!”
And so when I had a free moment, I took up the The Corrections: A Novel and started [...]
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Now that the preschooler knows that the postman brings goodies for him, I let him open up the parcel containing this book for review.
He was really excited (although he pointed out that the parcel didn’t have his name on it!) and LOVED the book cover, which was in his favourite purple
He immediately clambered [...]
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“Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret” was in the reading list of the young girl from the international school I was coaching for English.
To prepare for our book discussions, I looked for the book in the library and totally enjoyed it
Margaret Simon is a 12 year old girl (sixth grade) whose [...]
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Last year, I had to hunt for a Halloween costume when the preschool in China announced that they would be celebrating this dress-up event
My boy was only 3 then, sweats a lot and didn’t fancy anything over his head. Also, there were limited characters he was familiar with since he’s a HUGE Thomas [...]
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P.S. I Love You was a best-seller in 2007 but I never thought of reading the book because it was about a young woman who lost her husband to cancer.
A young married woman myself (with a living husband), I certainly didn’t want to read about such a horrifying situation.
When my father died suddenly, PS, I [...]
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Joey Pigza is a “wired” young boy who suffers from attention-deficit-hyperactive-disorder (ADHD) but what’s interesting is that he’s actually the most normal person in his CRAZY family!
First, his parents are divorced but his erratic, reckless motorbike-riding father doesn’t seem to want to move on because he stalks his ex-wife and her new boyfriend frequently.
His mother [...]
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When I saw the book cover, I thought it’s a ghost story until I read that it’s about a *painfully* shy girl, Anna Newland, who turned herself into a total recluse at 7 years old by hiding herself away in passageways and secret rooms she built in her family’s Victorian mansion.
A middle child with [...]
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After the success of reading Margaret Wise Brown’s “Goodnight Moon” I was happy to find “Two Little Trains” written by the same author for my No. 1 Thomas the Tank Engine fan.
My toddler was delighted to see that the first few pages had the illustration of a present, which contained a wooden toy train. He [...]
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