Book Review - Strange Planet Activity Book

About the Book

An activity book based on Strange Planet, Nathan W. Pyle’s #1 New York Times bestseller!

Our favorite literal-speaking Beings return in this fun and hilarious activity book for kids 8-12 and fans of all ages.

The book, filled with puzzles, games, and activities, features iconic big eyed, blue Beings, a bright pastel palette, and delightfully odd, deadpan humor. There are over one hundred pages to joyfully doodle in and complete, with activities ranging from crossword puzzles, mazes, word searches, matching games, spot the difference, and more.

This activity book incorporates absurd “Strange Planet” lingo like “foot fabric tubes” (socks) and “vibrating creature” (purring cat) throughout.

This activity book taps into what we love most about Strange Planet: the humor. This book will give young fans of the Strange Planet series yet another opportunity to visit their favorite blue Beings.

My Take on the Book
If you love this author, you will get the best of both the art of Strange Planet and the quirky wording that you find in the comic too. The book is filled with a ton of fun activities that will keep the reader active for a long time. This is a fun book that gives you a ton of fun throughout the entire book!

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Book Review - Strange Planet: The Sneaking, Hiding, Vibrating Creature

About the Book

Nathan W. Pyle’s first picture book in his Strange Planet series, a #1 New York Times bestseller!

Based on his popular Instagram comics, Nathan W. Pyle presents a delightful, heartfelt, and clever picture book that young and old beings alike will enjoy reading together.

When the nearest star rises, Lifegiver has an exciting quest planned for Offspring! Follow along as they observe a strange creature that sneaks, hides, and vibrates around their house. Hilarity ensues as the blue beings try to mimic this talented creature.

As always, Nathan W. Pyle draws humor from his unique perspective on human activity and delivers a colorful experience that is an ode to cats and humans alike.

This book is a joy to read and share, no matter how many revolutions you’ve made around the nearest star.

My Take on the Book
As someone that has been a fan of Nathan Pyle cartoons, I wanted a way to introduce my kids to him too and this book was a perfect way to do just that. My kids read the book and they loved it. In the book you will see that there is a bit of a puzzle in the wording, but my girls loved the puzzle too. For younger readers, this was a great length that gives you plot, characters and more, but short enough to not lose the young readers' attention. My daughters and I loved the book and we highly recommend it to you too!

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Book Review - Where's Waldo? Santa Spotlight Search

About the Book

Christmas is coming, and Santa with it—if you can only find him! Luckily, Waldo fans have a cool wand to help them spotlight the jolly old guy in the dark.

Shake your sleigh bells, pull on your holiday sweater, and join in the festive madness! These night-time scenes are bustling with Santas getting ready for Christmas Eve. With the help of a magic slider to light up one spot at a time, can you find some very specific Santas—like the one whose stocking is threadbare? Or the ones who are slimmer than most? And by the way, where are Waldo and all his friends—Wenda, Odlaw, Wizard Whitebeard, and Woof? Featuring super-challenging searches as well as puzzles and games, Santa’s Spotlight Search promises many hours of merriment for seasoned Waldo fans and new followers alike.

 

My Take on the Book
This was a fun new way to look for Waldo. Instead of just looking on the page you have an opportunity to use the magic slider to make the picture come alive and look for Waldo in a brand new way. The book will really allow you to get into the holiday spirit. The book is a ton of fun and one that you will love to share with your kids, I know I did! 

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Puzzle Review - Book Nerd 1,000-Piece Puzzle

About the Book

A puzzle just for book lovers!

You know you’re a book nerd because you never once thought the movie was better. Your favorite mug says “I’d rather be reading.” You have a minimum of five books on your nightstand, and your favorite activity is browsing the shelves of your local bookstore—a joy you can now relish, piece by piece, in this love letter of a puzzle to your personal passion.

• 1,000 interlocking pieces
• Mini-poster (9 3⁄8" × 63⁄4") for reference or framing
• Completed puzzle size: 26 3⁄8” × 18 7⁄8”

My Take on the Book
As a book and puzzle lover, this puzzle is one that really was amazing! The puzzle was challenging and fun and the end picture is one that you might even choose to frame afterward for your own book nook. Get ready for a ton of fun as you work to create a fun image through this great puzzle. 

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Book Review - Everything You Need to Ace Pre-Algebra and Algebra I in One Big Fat Notebook

About the Book
Pre-Algebra & Algebra 1? No Problem!

The BIG FAT NOTEBOOK covers everything you need to know during a year of Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 class, breaking down one big fat subject into accessible units. Including the number system, ratios, and proportions, scientific notation, introduction and equations, functions, graphing a line, square roots and cube roots, polynomial operations, quadratic functions, and more.

Study better with:

• Mnemonic devices
• Definitions
• Diagrams
• Educational doodles
• and quizzes to recap it all
• and get better grades!

My Take on the Book
My daughter is in 8th grade and just starting in pre-algebra concepts and this book really helped to bring the concepts to life. My daughter thought that the book was straightforward and the concepts that were shared were shared in a way that a teenager can understand. She found that the book really has allowed her to better understand what she is studying and I know it can help your teen as well! 

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Book Review - The Big Fat Middle School Math Workbook: 600 Math Practice Exercises

About the Book

Practice makes As with a fill-in workbook from the editors of the Big Fat Notebooks!

This hands-on Big Fat Math Workbook equals being tutored by the best teacher in the school, through a recap of every key concept using definitions, examples, and special services like THINK, showing just how to get into the concept, and REMEMBER, summing up critical facts. Plus: Sample problems worked out step by step. 600 exercises and word problems. A solution process instead of an answer key to guide students through each problem they missed or to reinforce how they succeeded.

 

My Take on the Book
My daughter is a middle school student and she loved this book. Math is a subject that is not always her strongest one, but she found this book to be filled with exercises that she found to be easy to follow and they really helped her to understand a lot of concepts that she did not understand completely before this. That being said, this was a great book that you will love to share with your own middle-school student. 

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Book Review - Unicorn Playlist: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure

About the Book
From newspapers to Nickelodeon, Phoebe and Her Unicorn is the most stunning unicorn feature around! This latest collection of Phoebe comics will delight middle-grade readers and unicorn lovers of all ages.

Best friends Phoebe Howell and Marigold Heavenly Nostrils march to their own beat, but life isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. With so many problems in the world and drama at school, Phoebe wonders why unicorns aren’t in charge instead of humans. With Marigold, each day is full of magic, from introducing Phoebe to unicorn music to crashing a goblin popularity contest, and even tracking down long-lost family members like Infernus, the Unicorn of Death (who ends up being surprisingly adorable). In Unicorn Playlist, Phoebe and Marigold play all the hits.

My Take on the Book
This is another great book from the series! You get adventure, humor and more. I loved that in this book you get introduced to so many new characters, but also get to see Phoebe and Marigold Heavenly Nostrils in a whole new way. The illustrations are as great as always and you will get drawn into the book from the beginning to end of the book! 

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Book Review - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas

About the Book

The classic Christmas verse in an elegant new gift edition—breathtakingly illustrated by P.J. Lynch.

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house . . .

P.J. Lynch brings his rich and atmospheric art to the well-loved holiday poem. Children will pore over every cozy detail in these warm, sweeping watercolor illustrations—from snug mice to stockings hung by the chimney with care to toys in the bundle flung over merry St. Nicholas’s back. A glowing interpretation of a favorite read-aloud, this is a keepsake volume to cherish and return to year after year.

My Take on the Book

This is a story that brings me back to my own childhood. I would hear this story every Christmas, first by my Grandfather and then from my own father and then I shared this story reading it to my own kids. This is a beautiful book with amazing illustrations that is a keepsake for any family!


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DVD Review - The Flash: The Complete Seventh Season

About the DVD

It’s time to escape the Mirrorverse, resurrect the Speed Force and make every second count! The Flash is back to protect Central City with his lightning-fast reflexes – and fans will be zooming in to pick up the highest-rated series on The CW – as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases The Flash: The Complete Seventh Season on Blu-ray and DVD on October 12, 2021. Speed-watch all 18 riveting episodes from season seven, plus never-before-seen bonus content including deleted scenes and a gag reel. The Flash: The Complete Seventh Season is priced to own at $39.99 SRP for the DVD ($44.98 in Canada) and $44.98 SRP for the Blu-ray ($49.99 in Canada), which includes a Digital Copy (U.S. only). The Flash: The Complete Seventh Season is also available to own on Digital via purchase from digital retailers.

After last season’s cliffhanger which saw the brilliant and powerful Eva McCulloch victorious and still-at-large in Central City, Barry Allen/The Flash must regroup in order to stop her and bring back his missing wife. With help from the rest of Team Flash, Barry will ultimately defeat Mirror Monarch and reunite with Iris West-Allen. But in doing so, he’ll unleash two more devastating threats: one that could tear his marriage apart… and another that will lay siege to Central City and change the future forever.

With Blu-ray’s unsurpassed picture and sound, The Flash: The Complete Seventh Season Blu-ray release will include 1080p Full HD Video with DTS-HD Master Audio for English 5.1. Featuring all 18 episodes from the seventh season in high definition, as well as a digital code of the season (available in the U.S. only).

The Flash stars Grant Gustin (Arrow, Glee), Candice Patton (The Game), Danielle Panabaker (Sky High, Friday the 13th), Carlos Valdes (Arrow, Once), Danielle Nicolet (Central Intelligence), Kayla Compton (Making Moves), Brandon McKnight (The Shape of Water) and Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order). Based on the characters from DC, The Flash is produced by Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti (Arrow, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Riverdale), Eric Wallace (Teen Wolf, Z Nation, Eureka), Sarah Schechter (Batwoman, Riverdale, Black Lightning, Supergirl) and Jonathan Butler & Gabriel Garza (Bella and the Bulldogs).

SPECIAL FEATURES
• Deleted Scenes (Exclusive to Blu-ray and DVD)
• Gag Reel (Exclusive to Blu-ray and DVD)
• The Journey Ends: Carlos and Tom
• Never Alone: Heroes and Allies
• 2020 DC FanDome: The Flash (Watchverse)

18 ONE-HOUR EPISODES

1. All's Wells That Ends Wells
2. The Speed of Thought
3. Mother
4. Central City Strong
5. Fear Me
6. The One with the Nineties
7. Growing Pains
8. The People vs. Killer Frost
9. Timeless
10. Family Matters, Part 1
11. Family Matters, Part 2
12. Good-Bye Vibrations
13. Masquerade
14. Rayo De Luz
15. Enemy at the Gates
16. P.O.W.
17. Heart of the Matter, Part 1
18. Heart of the Matter, Part 2

My Take on the DVD
This is a great season! I loved seeing how well the characters came together to get out of the mirrorverse as well as fixing and freeing the speed force throughout this season. I loved seeing all of the new characters throughout the season, but also the characters that we know and love. Each season for me gets better and better, but this season stood out when it came to looking at Iris West-Allen and how the mirrorverse impacts her and her relationships with others. On top of this, you get to see some characters leaving the show and some coming back and in the end you really get a great season that allows you to look forward to season eight. All-in-all if you love The Flash, you will love this season too! 

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Book Review - Little One

About the Book

Winner at the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Full of warmth and promise, this picture book about the magic bond between parents and their baby girl will soon win the love of parents from all over the world.

They say the first time you watch your newborn, your heart gives a little thrill, and that is when you know you are going to love the little creature in your arms forever. These parents’ experienced it and they lovingly welcome their young child, as they explain to her what to expect of the world. Watching her offspring grow up and accompanying her during this beautiful process will be indeed healing for them, as through her eyes, the eyes of a child, they will discover the world once again.

My Take on the Book
This is a great book that really lets you see the world through the eyes of a child, but also through the eyes of a parent. The book is a love letter from parent to child about the world that will unveil itself to them. I loved the images and the sentiment within the story as you will hear and see things that you really will want to say to your own child. That being said, the book is one that is meant to be read between a parent and child and can be read over and over again so your child will understand the meaning as he/she gets older. I am very impressed overall with the book and what it says to a child and I think you will be impressed too.

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Book Review - Bathing in the Forest

About the Book

The little girl of the forest embraces you, takes you by the hand, and invites you to immerse yourself in her magical world. The trees surround you. You walk in peace. The light filters through the leaves, in myriad green and ochre tones. It feels as if your feet are putting down roots, connecting you with the vibrant world around you. You are surrounded by birdsong, and the sound of the wind in the treetops… You are bathing in the forest.

Walking through the forest has multiple benefits. It helps regulate our blood pressure, slow down the heart rate, reduce stress, improves our mood and tones our immune system. You will sleep better and your good mood will increase.

If you ever feel gray, sad, agitated, open the pages of Bathing in the Forest and feel the warm embrace of the girl who lives there…

My Take on the Book
If you have never heard of forest bathing, this book will let you get a better understanding of the concept and the perspective of what a forest can do to help you reset and your worldview. The book lets you meet the girl that lives in the wood and helps the travelers to find their happiness again. As someone that has taken these walks and found a new inner-peace, you will find this book as one that will help you to look at the world in a new way. The book has beautiful images, but also a story that will allow you to let young readers think about forests in a whole new way too.

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Book Review - Poultrygeist

About the Book
From a debut picture-book author and a #1 New York Times best-selling illustrator, a wry take on "Why did the chicken cross the road?” that gives a whole new meaning to “the Other Side.” Cock-a-doodle-BOO! It’s punny. It’s spooky. It’s a meta picture book that puts a fresh spin on an old joke and elevates chicken comedy to ghastly new levels. A little spring chicken crosses the road but quickly gets flattened under a semitruck. The barnyard beasts who’ve gone before break the news: now that Chicken’s fried—dispatched to the Other Side—Chicken has a job, an unwanted job, as a noisy troublemaking ghost. This fowl may be weak in the beak, but Chicken knows that scaring people isn’t nice. There is such a thing as a friendly ghost, after all—isn’t there? Loaded with laughs and shivers, this Halloween-ready treat features ghoulishly funny art by the illustrator of the #1 New York Times best-selling Bad Seed series. Let the haunting begin! No chickens were harmed in the making of this book.

My Take on the Book
This was a super fun book. While the ook may seem a bit spooky, I loved that the chicken fights the peer pressure to be mean and scary and decides to take a path different from the other road kill. The book itself had amazing illustrations and you will be drawn in by the cadence and the story itself. The story is fun and so are the characters. All-in-all I loved this book and it will be one I will be sharing with many others in the future!
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Book Review - Twitchy Witchy Itch

About the Book

Visual hijinks abound as a nervous witch gets swept away with trying to tidy up before company comes—only to discover that being with friends is what really matters.

Tick, tock! Three cups.
Tick, tock! Three saucers.
With nine minutes left, everything was ready.
Or was it?

Itch the witch is having company over for tea. As the clock counts down to tea o’clock, Itch’s mind is in a tizzy: is her house too twitchy? Is her home too itchy? Zipping and zooming, dusting and brooming, Itch sweeps and bewitches the mess away (just in the nick of time). But as soon as her two guests walk in, Itch’s housekeeping comes unraveled. How will Itch tame such an itchy, glitchy, fidgety mess? Rising star Priscilla Tey uses computer-aided design (and evokes familiar computer glitches) to present a delightfully meta, intricately illustrated story that dazzles as it amuses.

My Take on the Book
I loved this book. Not only do you get amazing illustrations, but there is also a great message throughout the book that really allows you to understand that you should be yourself and not try to make yourself someone you are not. The author does a great job at using a fun cadence to draw you in and really talks about friendship, being true to yourself, and more. This is a great book not only for Halloween but really for any time during the year. 

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Book Review - Shadowghast

About the Book

In the third mysterious tale of Eerie-on-Sea, it’s almost Ghastly Night, and the Shadowghast—an ancient spirit in a lantern—lurks in wait for the power to enslave the town.

In this third adventure, shipwrecked orphan Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, must square off with a creature of town lore as he confronts a shadow from his past. While other towns celebrate Halloween, in Eerie-on-Sea it’s Ghastly Night, and a grim spirit in a lantern awaits its moment. Legend has it that if people fail to light manglewick candles on Ghastly Night, and if no showman conjures shadow puppets on the pier as an offering, the insulted Shadowghast will seize and devour the shadows of the living. This year, a professional theater troupe has been summoned, including a raven-haired magician named Caliastra with startling news of Herbie’s origins. No sooner have the players checked into the hotel than townspeople start vanishing into thin air, including the guardian of Herbie’s best friend, Violet Parma. It’s up to Herbie and Violet to separate truth from sleight of hand and solve the mystery of the Shadowghast lantern before darkness swallows them all.

My Take on the Book
This was a great new book. While it was the third book in a series, I felt that it was a book that could stand on its' own, even if you have not read the first two. By the end of the book, I knew I wanted to go back to read the first two to not only give me more context but also allow me to get to know the main characters and the whole village and more in the end. The author does a great job at creating a new world with memorable characters, but also a story that keeps you engaged from page one to the very end. 

In this book, Herbie and Violet, which have been the heroes of the book, are back for the third time. They are set in Eerie-on-Sea, in which the author does an amazing job at describing and painting the picture of a strange village. As mentioned, I had not read the first two books so for me, this was my first introduction and it was a great one. 

The book is full of mystery, intrigue, and some creepy undertones with the characters having to deal with peril around every corner. You start to question who is friend or foe and with the supernatural bent of the book and the mystery that ensues, you are kept on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. 

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Book Review - Where's Waldo? Spooky Spotlight Search

About the Book
It’s pitch dark on the way to Odlaw’s haunted castle — but Waldo-seekers have a cool wand to light the way in a book perfect for the spooky season. Somewhere in the darkness, Waldo is venturing across a swamp toward a looming castle, sneaking down to the dungeon and through a creepy gallery to . . . Hey! We didn’t see that twist coming! In Waldo's second adventure featuring this innovative, all-paper design, readers can slide a spotlight searcher under a series of totally dark scenes, illuminating small sections and stealthily moving the light to seek out Waldo and his friends. Everyone’s favorite vagabond is in costume as himself in this Halloween-worthy challenge for eagle-eyed fans.

 

My Take on the Book
If you love Waldo books or books where you have to search for hidden objects this was a fun new way to do just that. While some of the pictures have appeared in other books, the way you search in this book is completely different. In this book you use a special magic wand to be able to allow things to glow in the dark and you have to search for Waldo using this. The wand makes the image light up and come alive which makes the book different than other Waldo books, and that much more fun. I have to say that I was impressed with the book and excited to try this out with my daughters. As they used the wand they too had a blast and wanted to go from page to page to be able to find Waldo and your family will too! 

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Book Review - To the Moon and Back: Guess How Much I Love You and Will You Be My Friend?

About the Book
In an ideal gift for little ones, the family classic Guess How Much I Love You and its sequel, Will You Be My Friend?, nestle together in a beautifully designed boxed set.

It’s the book that gave rise to the words “I love you right up to the moon—and back”—a phrase that’s now in the common vernacular. This tale of a big and little hare who boast of loving each other as high as they can hop and as wide as they can reach has been adored by a generation of children who’ve begun sharing it with their own. Twenty-five years after the Nutbrown Hares met the world, creators Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram brought us the perfect companion—the story of Little Nutbrown Hare’s jubilant steps toward independence after meeting a new friend. Now, in an elegant slipcase, Guess How Much I Love You and Will You Be My Friend? find a special spot together on bookshelves—a pairing sure to be coveted by big and little readers for generations to come.

My Take on the Book
This was such a beautiful book set. I have been a HUGE fan of both of these books for years and this collection brings you two that you and your children will want to read over and over again. With the fact that you get both books in a slip case, the books will remain nice for a long time to come. Both books themselves, if you have not read them in the past, are beautifully written and the messages in both are important for you and your children to share together. All-in-all, this is a book set that would be amazing to give as a gift, or to keep for a family keepsake. I highly recommend this set to all!

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Book Review - Gigantosaurus: Roar, Giganto, Roar!: A Puppet Book

About the Book
Will Giganto win the roaring contest? Make a fearsome Gigantosaurus puppet come to life with this novelty board book.

Dinosaurs are experts at roaring, and Rocky, Tiny, Mazu, and Bill are eager to have a contest to see who can roar the best. But they need another participant to round out the contest, and fierce Giganto is asleep! Can the dinos wake him up and make him roar? Little readers are invited to get into the act with the help of an attached Giganto puppet that pokes through the scenes helping him snore, chew, chomp a favorite snack, and even dance when Tiny sings. But what they’re really after is much louder than that!

My Take on the Book
This was a fun book that really allows you and your child to get into the book in a whole new way. The book allows you to make the book come alive with the puppet that you have and the story is fun too. The illustrations in the book really pop off the page and with the puppet you and your young reader will have a blast throughout the book and you will want to keep reading from beginning to end.

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Book Review - Conversations Worth Having Second Edition

About the Book
Now in a second edition, this classic book shows how to make conversations generative and productive rather than critical and destructive so people, organizations, and communities flourish.

We know that conversations influence us, but we rarely stop to think about how much impact they have on our well-being and ability to thrive. This book is the first to show how Appreciative Inquiry—a widely used change method that focuses on identifying what's working and building on it rather than just trying to fix what's broken—can help us communicate more effectively and flourish in all areas of our lives.

By focusing on what we want to happen instead of what we want to avoid and asking questions to deepen understanding and increase possibilities, we expand creativity, improve productivity, and unleash potential at work and home. Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres use real-life examples to illustrate how these two practices and the principles that underlie them foster connection, innovation, and success.

This edition has been revised throughout with new examples; updates on the latest supporting research in neuroscience, positive science, and positive psychology; and a discussion guide. It also features a new chapter on what the authors call tuning in: cultivating awareness of how our physical and mental state affect our perceptions, emotions, and thoughts as we engage in conversation.

This book teaches you how to use the practices and principles of Appreciative Inquiry to strengthen relationships, build effective teams, and generate possibilities for a future that works for everyone.

My Take on the Book
This was a great new edition! The book brings back many of the important topics from the first version but also goes deeper into appreciative inquiry. While I had never read much on appreciative inquiry before read the first book, I learned so much while reading that, I wanted to read more in this second edition! 

The concepts shared here will definitely be ones that I will be incorporating into my daily work life as I can see the tangible ways in which this can impact my relationships at work, but even more so, impact the overall culture of the organization. The book has a ton of practical components that allow you to better understand the concepts and put them to work right away. When I read books like this, for me, having practical tips and resources as well as examples helps me to internalize the concepts. I love being able to see right away how I can use the information, and this book definitely allowed me to do just that! You will learn a ton in this book that will really change the way that you will want to live your life!
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