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Book Reviews

School is back in and the days will get shorter soon. What better way to fill those early dark evenings than reading.

September 8, 1997

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Infants & Toddlers
Sharing
By Gill Davies, Illustrated by Stephanie Longfoot

While this is not a board book, it does entertain and teach kids how to share. It also shows how many different things you can share. Sometimes you share toys, other times it's food, and you can even share your chair while you're watching television.

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Preschool-First Grade

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish
By Dr. Seuss

I think that Dr. Seuss has proven himself through time. The books may seem like nonsense, but everyone loves them. Rhymes and more rhymes is what you get with Dr. Seuss, if it doesn't rhyme, he makes it rhyme. Kids love the pictures. Dr. Seuss books are hard to classify by an age, toddlers love them, and they are easy beginning reading for older children.

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2nd-4th grade

Funny Guy
by Grace Allen Hogarth

This might be a little difficult for the younger readers, but it is an enjoyable book. Helen's mother is in the hospital, and Dad needs money to pay the bills. She is spending her summer with Auntie Cris. She is very lonely and does many odd things, everyone starts calling her "The Funny Guy". The harder she tries to fit in the worse the names become. What happens? Read it and find out.

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5th-8th Grade

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
By Jules Verne

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is a science-fiction adventure by Jules Verne. The story starts when a strange type of sea life surfaces and a crew is sent out to find out what this creature is. When the creature is found, it is immeadiately attacked by the crew. The strange creature succeeds in destroying the ship. Two passengers, Ned Land and Pierre Aronnax survive and board the strange creature, which ends up being a submarine, named The Nautilus. Ned and Pierre meet the captain, Captain Nemo, and they discover a whole new life under the sea, with the help of Captain Nemo.

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