No Place Like Gnome(ville): The Monster Princess.Losers Weepers! Three Little Kittens by Jerry Pinkney.Peter, Peter: The Very Best Pumpkin by Mark Kimbal.Boo! Martha Speaks: Haunted House by Susan Meddaugh.I also receive review copies from publishers or authors from time to time, with no implied promise that the books will be reviewed favorably or at all. I am an Amazon associate, which means that clicking on the image of a book I reviewed or on the title of any book mentioned in the review will take you to full publishing and purchasing information, as well as other reviews and comments for most books. Loving both kids and books equally as I do, perhaps helping children and the adults who care about them find good books through this blog is the next best thing to being there. Retired after 32+ years as an elementary librarian, I really miss the joy of bringing together the right book with the right reader at the right time. Furthermore, rising bond yields, which have weighed on futures and growth stocks, as well as anticipated delays in the approval of the United States infrastructure plan, which earmarks cash to accelerate the development of renewable energy solutions, are having a negative influence on this sector. Renewables are down around 2% year to date, compared to the S&P 500, which is up more than 19% during the same time period. However, year-to-date results in 2021 have been underwhelming. Investment in renewables is similar to what happened in the 1840s when there were a huge investment in plank roads in the United States. Why are we investing so much in renewable energy in terms of tax breaks and legislation for wind energy development? The reason is simple it’s a significant and profitable investment in the future which reduces the U.S. Until recently, there is no question that technologies such as wind turbines were less efficient than using fossil fuel. Labels: Duck Stories, Halloween Stories (Grades K-3), Monster Stories It's an easy-going, ever-so-lightly-scary takeoff on the ever-popular Frankenstein theme that kids will take to like, well, ducks to water. Jones' illustrations give us hints that his creature is no monster at all, just a mama-less monotreme-an echidna-whose egg a clueless zoo orderly must have mixed up with the orphaned duck eggs. In Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen's brand-new Quackenstein Hatches a Family (Abrams, 2010) there's nary a hint of the lineage of the changeling that Quackenstein adopts, but for those in the mammalian know, Brian T. Finally Quackenstein is cornered in a dark cave. Through brush and bramble Quack flees, but each time he stops for breath, the thing lurches up upon him. It's got long, curved claws, beady black eyes, a long black schnozz, black fur, and a long, flat tail! " You're no duck!" Quackenstein screams and runs out into the windswept night. Well, something that couldn't be called a ducky-poo by any stretch of the imagination. " Dear Ducky-poo," he cooed, " you'll never be neglected."īut everything changes on that dark and stormy night when, in a gigantic flash of lightning, the egg cracks open dramatically, and out steps. Carefully he tends the rather large egg in its makeshift nest. " I'll adopt!" he exclaims, and takes the egg back to his dark and gloomy little shack. But even grumpy old bachelors get lonely, and when Quack sees a sign advertising orphaned eggs needing homes, suddenly he sees his life changing.
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