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Home Posts tagged "MWD book reviews" (Page 8)

Tag: MWD book reviews

Review – First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover by Mitali Perkins

 

First Daughter: White House Rules, by Mitali Perkins (Dutton Children’s Books, 2008)

 

First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover
by Mitali Perkins
(Dutton Children’s Books, 2007)

 

Sameera, known as Sparrow, is the adopted daughter of diplomatic parents. She has …

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Review – First Daughter: White House Rules by Mitali Perkins

First Daughter: White House Rules, by Mitali Perkins (Dutton Children’s Books, 2008)

 

First Daughter: White House Rules
by Mitali Perkins
(Dutton Children’s Books, 2008)

 
Following on from First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover, First Daughter: White House …

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Review: Non-Fiction Photographic Story ‘Amoako and the Forest’

Amoako and the Forest, written by Deborah Cowley, photos by Kathy Knowles (OSU Children's Library Fund, Canada, 2008)

Amoako and the Forest
written by Deborah Cowley, photos by Kathy Knowles
(OSU Children’s Library Fund, Canada, 2008)


Amoako, …

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Review: Sequoyah by James Rumford

 

Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, by James Rumford, translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004)

 

Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
by James Rumford, Cherokee translation …

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Review: One World Together by Catherine and Laurence Anholt

One World Tgether, by Catherine and Laurence Anholt (Janetta Otter-Barry Books, Frances Lincoln, 2013/paperback 2014)

 

One World Together
by Catherine and Laurence Anholt
(Janetta Otter-Barry Books, Frances Lincoln, 2013/paperback 2014)

 
One World Together introduces …

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Review: Tiger Boy by Mitali Perkins, illustrated by Jamie Hogan

 

Tiger Boy, by Mitali Perkins, illustrated by Jamie Hogan (Charlesbridge, 2015)

 

Tiger Boy
written by Mitali Perkins, illustrated by Jamie Hogan
(Charlesbridge, 2015)

 

Mitali Perkins‘ latest novel Tiger Boy is beautifully crafted, the …

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Review – After Ghandi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance by Anne Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmund O’Brien

After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance, by Anne Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmond O’Brien (Charlesbridge, 2009)

After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance
by Anne Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmond O’Brien
(Charlesbridge, 2009)

 
An extraordinarily …

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Review: Planting the Trees of Kenya by Claire A. Nivola

 

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, by Claire A. Nivola

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
by Claire A. Nivola
(Frances Foster Books; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)

 
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Review: Maya Saves the Day, Trouble with Magic, and The Vampire Boy – 3 Early Reader ‘Hole Books’ from Duckbill

3 'hOle Book' early readers from Duckbill (India) - The Vampire Boy; Maya Saves the Day; and Trouble with Magic

Maya Saves the Day
written by Meera Nair, illustrated by Priya Kuriyan

Trouble with Magic
written …

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Review: The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin

The Year of the Dog, by Grace Lin (Little, Brown & Co., 2006)

The Year of the Dog
by Grace Lin
(Little, Brown & Co., 2006)

 
This is Grace Lin’s first novel and she wrote it because ‘this …

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