Through the Looking-Glass
 Soso: Though this book is not much better than Alice's Adventures, the chess motif and theme does make the book much more interesting. With the bossy, dominant Red Queen and the quiet, kind, messy white queen, the book is a study in contrasts. The [... more]
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Robinson Crusoe
The original Survivor: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe never lived with a number of other people on his deserted island, competing for food and immunity icons every week, a television camera constantly in his face. Crusoe lived his solitary life not for [... more]
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Anti-Catholic polemic dressed up as a classic: I have always loved Mark Twain since reading Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer as a kid. At one point I had even memorized "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" as a seventh-grader in Catholic [... more]
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Old Mother West Wind
Sweet, Timeless Short Stories: A book of short stories about animals who talk, _Old Mother West Wind_ is enjoyable for a child of about five years to about eight as a read aloud (or older, if your child isn't terribly worldly.) These short tales often [... more]
$3.49
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Just So Stories
Things Every Child Should Know: As a child I read these wonderful stories, read them to my child and now he's reading them to his children. How can you get through life not knowing how the Elephant Got His Trunk or how the Camel Got His Hump. In these [... more]
$2.00
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The Secret Garden
Amazon.com Review: Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old [... more]
$2.99
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The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild: The Call Of The Wild The Call Of The Wild was one of the most positive experiences from a book. It started out a little boring, but eventually became more interesting. The characters were so believable that it felt like you could be [... more]
$2.99
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Just So Stories
Things Every Child Should Know: As a child I read these wonderful stories, read them to my child and now he's reading them to his children. How can you get through life not knowing how the Elephant Got His Trunk or how the Camel Got His Hump. In these [... more]
$0.99
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The Dark Is Rising
Amazon.com Review: "When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone; Five will return, and one go alone." With these mysterious words, Will Stanton [... more]
$5.99
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Five Children and It
Students in 5th grade at glen grove school: I think The Five Children and it is a great book. I read it because I have been reading this book for school and at first, it didn't look so good (the book) I liked how the chapters are like little separate [... more]
$2.99
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Bud, Not Buddy
Amazon.com Review: "It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought [... more]
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Puck of Pook's Hill
To be read over and over: It seems to be fashionable, in this politically correct time, to find fault with Rudyard Kipling. But Kipling was a great writer with big ideas and a big heart. He wrote "Puck of Pook's Hill" and "Rewards and [... more]
$1.49
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