This book is about a little girl named Annabelle who lives in a cold town. She likes to knit and she makes herself one sweater and she makes one for her dog as well because she had some extra yarn. a little boy makes fun of her, but she made a sweater for him and his dog as well. The yarn was rea...
Set in a cold town on a cold afternoon all of the illustrations are fittingly void of all color, capturing only "the white of snow and the black of soot." Annabelle finds a box of colorful yarn, and decides to knit herself a sweater. There is extra yarn so she knits a sweater for her dog, Mars....
I think I liked the illustrations in this book better than the "story". There didn't really seem to be a point to the story. I would agree with the previous reviewer -- Tatiana -- who felt the plot lacked a problem and thus a satisfying resolution. But the execution of the illustrations was spot ...
Steve is an ordinary 7th grader who loves the Bailey Brothers Detective Handbook. He is assigned a social studies project on early American needlework. He isn't thrilled about the assignment but he goes to the library to do research. He checks out An Illustrated History of American Quilting for h...
This review is on the book “The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity” by Mac Barnett. I would recommend this book to readers who like mystery books with humor and non-stop action. This book is now one of my favorite books, but unfortunately it’s one the very few books of its genre. It has many...
Twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, like so many 12-year-olds, has a passion. His happens to be the Bailey Brothers detective novels. He has read every single one in the series at least once. He longs to be a dective himself. He's not to bad when it comes to solving riddles and small crimes. For examp...
Marc Barnett has made counting so much more fun with this book!!! The goal of this book is to count the monkeys, but other animals keep scaring the monkeys away. First a cobra scared the monkeys. Then two mongooses or is it mongeese, chased the cobra away. Along with counting the various anim...
Genre: Picture book Published: 2014I found the illustrations in this book to be engaging and entertaining. In the story two kids decide to dig a hole until they find something interesting. In the illustrations the kids keep digging around diamonds, but every time they get close to one they de...
I rarely review picture books. I spend a couple hours each day reading them to my 18m old and 4y old, and they start to blend together after a while. This was a fun change of pace. I was laughing out loud and so were my husband and four year old. We were still laughing after reading out for the t...
Mustache! was a really entertaining book to read that kids would go bonkers over. As a kid everyone would draw mustaches on drawings of people and it was the funniest thing around which is why this book would be a success in about any classroom. The king is a very self-absorbed man who doesn't re...
The class loved this book so much, probably the exuberant illustrations by Chris Van Dusen contributed to their glee. The problem of a real president stuck in the tub nude, tastefully painted with a three dimensional quality, made the book come alive. Mac Barnett's clever pacing of how to solve t...
Steve Brixton has recently opened his own business, the Brixton Brothers Detective Agency (despite the fact that he doesn't have any siblings) and receives a phone call from the richest man in Ocean Park, Victor Fairview, his first official client. Mr. Fairview has had a diamond stolen, one of th...
Frustrated by a less than perfect score on her history test, a young overachiever builds a time machine to go back and change history so that her answer is correct. The results are not what she anticipates.It’s a vivid and very funny time travel tale that can be shared with the youngest audience ...
This is book #3 of the Brixton Brothers Mystery series. These books are so enjoyable for light reading and I love the innuendos and puns linking the series to the Hardy Boys series and also to important wealthy people in history.Twelve year-old Steve (who has no siblings, by the way, but thought ...