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Beagles and Books
2w ago
The Quiet Forest by Charlotte Offsay Illustrated by Abi Cushman
On the front endpapers, a brown mouse wearing a purple backpack hides behind a rock in the peaceful woods. The stillness is short-lived, for the mouse swings on a branch and lands on top of a rabbit’s pancakes snatching breakfast. The mischievous mouse’s actions set off a comical chain of events involving a bothered beaver, a drenched deer, a miserable moose, and lastly, a bellowing bear and her cub. I love how Offsay includes alliterative adjectives repeatedly to describe the animals ..read more
Beagles and Books
1M ago
Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading. Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.
The results are in for the 2024 Cybil Awards for Easy Reader and Early Chapter Book! H ..read more
Beagles and Books
1M ago
Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading. Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.
The Cozy Home (Bat, Cat & Rat #1) by Ame Dyckman Illustrated by Mark Teague
What ..read more
Beagles and Books
2M ago
Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading. Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.
Today by Gabi Snyder Illustrated by Stephanie Graegin
Time is a tricky thing. W ..read more
Beagles and Books
3M ago
Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading. Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.
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Honored and excited to have been selected as a Cybil Awards (C ..read more
Beagles and Books
4M ago
Bella and I are howling with excitement to be part of the blog tour for To Dogs, with Love written by Maria Gianferrari and illustrated by Ishaa Lobo. This picture book honoring all the ways dogs celebrates its book birthday on December 5, 2023. Thanks to author Maria Gianferrari for sharing an e-copy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
Confession. I was late to the dog loving party. As a child, I didn’t have much interaction with dogs and when I did, I was scared. When I met my husband 23 years ago, his dog, Beaglie, changed my whole perspective which is now evident wi ..read more
Beagles and Books
4M ago
Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading. Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.
Thanks to Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing for sharing copies of the following in exchange ..read more
Beagles and Books
4M ago
Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading. Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.
Thanks to Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing for sharing copies of the following pictu ..read more
Beagles and Books
5M ago
About the Book:
Title: The Night Raven (The Moonwind Mysteries)
Author: Johan Rundberg
Translator: A.A. Prime
Pub. Date: November 1, 2023
Beagles and Books is thrilled to be part of the blog tour for the upper middle grade novel The Night Raven published by Amazon Crossing Kids which aims to increase the diversity of children’s books in translation and encourage young reading from a range of cultural perspectives. Special thanks to the publisher and Barbara Fisch of Blue Slip Media for sending me a copy in exchange fo ..read more
Beagles and Books
5M ago
Beagles and Books is excited to be part of the blog tour for The ChimpanSNEEZE publishing on November 14, 2023 by Two Lions. Special thanks to the publisher and Barbara Fisch of Blue Slip Media for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
Review:
Buttercups are beautiful, but to a chimpanzee, the flowers caused her to sneeze so hard that her friend, a kinkajou, flew into the sky. Zenz’s bright illustrations show how quickly the scene changed from calm to chaotic. Kids wil ..read more