Dear Son:I want to caution you about this author's abominable paleontology / anthropology. His grasp of scientific facts is truly lamentable for an adult and inexcusable for a published author, and I am sorry for exposing you to it at such a formative age.To set things straight: in reality, the ...
Booklist starred (June 1, 2011 (Vol. 107, No. 19))Grades K-2. Akin to those boxes of “eyeballs” (aka olives) that kids touch blindfolded before screaming their heads off, this is a delicious little shocker of a picture book that ought to whip your crowd of youngsters into a shrieking, laughing fr...
An old story more than ordinarily well-told. It's the details that I really appreciate here. At the pet store, the dogs hold up signs: " I'll be your best friend." "I like you." "I want to lick you!" The dog rides home in a convertible, tongue flopped sideways, shouting "whoopeee!" The cats' sign...
"Revenge of the Dinotrux," by Chris Gall, is the sequel to "Dinotrux." In the first book, Gall recounts the history of Dinotrux, ending with the discovery of one (in fossilized skeleton form) and its installation in a museum. In "Revenge of the Dinotrux," the sentient, bodied (IE, not skeletons) ...
Dawson's motto: Everything can be used again. He deploys this method to try and come up with a way to use discarded "stuff" to come up with a way to make a machine to do his chores. Of course, there are unseen consequences and Dawson must save the neighborhood. A cute story. The graphic-comic lik...