Lion’s Lair

This is an interesting book if you want an example of a different point of view by the author.  The story is written from the perspective of the boy Sam.  It begins with his birth and ends when he is in Preschool using the Morse Code to communicate with his next door neighbor.  I kept [...]

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What can a child do?  That is often the thought and mindset of adults when children advocate for a cause.  Children often think the same way.  I am too young or no one would listen to me anyway, so why bother.  Roy, the main character in Hoot had those same thoughts but they did not [...]

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Of late I have read several books, written from an animal’s perspective.  Keeper is a dog, telling his life story.  Authors who choose this frame of reference must love animals, particularly the one that they are writing about.  I know I now look at dogs, or cats from other books, in a different way.  I [...]

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My grandson read this book and recommended it for my reading.  I was not excited about reading a story about cats.  After two chapters however, it became apparent that the cats in this book were different.  They had human characteristics and reacted to one another in similar ways.  I soon began to think of these [...]

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On the cover this book has a sentence descriptor stating “A Companion to the Newbery Award Winner The Giver.”     I was expecting a continuation of the story line of The Giver, but found it to be a totally different setting with somewhat the same theme of  how a culture preserves the story of the past [...]

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