I loved the Duck & Goose book about opposites so could hardly wait until this one came out. I finally got my copy – opened it up – and thought…hmmmm not what I expected.
The same great duck and goose images were there, but the one word descriptions of feelings didn’t seem to be adequate. My [...]
If you guessed straight off that THIS book was a phonics book – well, you’d be right. I have raided my bookshelves at work for books for Jun to read, and there are, therefore, too many phonics books to count. As Jun is not yet reading these books herself, I “get” to read them again [...]
From the look of this blog, you’d think I hadn’t read a book in months. Other than Toddler books, you would be mostly right! However, when I was home in the US this summer, my Mom recommended this book, “The Last Time I Was Me.” The title looked rather depressing. Kind of like the story [...]
I was listening to the military radio station, we get here in the Tokyo area, and they told a story of a military man in Kansas who saw a car accident and pulled a man from a burning car. The message he left with the rescued man was, “Just pay it forward.”
This sent me right [...]
After I got hooked on McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, whenever my sweet husband stopped by an English bookstore, he would pick up whichever McCall Smith book they had that I didn’t have yet. Regardless of the series.
Thus, I was introduced to all four of his series. While each series is different, [...]
