![]() ![]() ![]() Pinczes’ writing is extremely creative and hilarious to read as I was laughing my head off with the small ant’s determination to help make the group of ants move much faster to get to the picnic area. Wow! Such a simple and innocent picture book and yet one that packs so much humor and clever rhyming schemes that I was totally blown away by this book! Elinor J. Will the one hundred ants make it to the picnic in time? ![]() But, then the smallest ant kept asking the other ninety-nine ants to divide into several groups of one hundred such as dividing into two lines of fifty and four lines of twenty-five, while delaying their time in getting to the picnic site. The book starts off with one hundred hungry ants heading towards a picnic site, determined to fill their stomachs with the delicious food ahead of them. Pinczes along with illustrations by Bonnie MacKain that deals with solving division math problems and it is an excellent way to help children solve division problems in a fun and creative way! But, I will admit that I have not read any math book quite like this one! “One Hundred Hungry Ants” is a children’s book written by Elinor J. I have read many children’s books that help children deal with solving math problems by presenting the concept in a creative and fun way. ![]()
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![]() Will this lead to friendship? Or maybe something more? What he doesn’t expect (or El, either) is that her annoyed attitude toward him–compared to the fawning of the rest of the student population–is refreshing and honest. ![]() ![]() Think “love me and despair.” Which, actually, isn’t too far off from Orion’s suspicion that she’s siphoning off the life force of her fellow students to power her own magic, so he sticks close to keep an eye on her. Who does he think he is, anyway? If only he knew about El’s affinity. Even El has been saved from the occasional baddie by Orion a few times now, even when she didn’t need it, and it’s made her downright cranky. The school matriculation rate is pretty abysmal.Īt least until Orion Lake came along, whose affinity for fighting magical baddies has kept the student population, if not at 100%, has at least given the kids inside a fighting chance. When students graduate, they face a gauntlet of the worst magical and student-eating baddies the school has to offer, and if they don’t have an alliance or an arsenal of spells ready, they won’t make it. You can think Hogwarts if you want, but instead of summer holidays or weekend trips for butterbeer, the students must ward their bedroom or else be eaten by magical creatures who consider young students a tasty snack. Galadriel, or in A DEADLY EDUCATION she’s known as “El”, is a junior at The Scholomance, a school of magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Forest Lodge” – A father takes his son away to a forest lodge after a fight with his wife.How could a story about a duck be remotely scary? After reading this dark, forbidding tale, I found the answer. “Stevie’s Duck” – I didn’t expect to like this story based on its title. ![]() This encounter is only the beginning of the danger to come.
![]() Petersburg that is an amazing sequence of endlessly piled-up complications and basically a demonstration of the writing principle of "take the worst thing that could happen to your character at this particular moment and then do that."īut what really makes both this and the previous book work for me is how likable the characters are. The action scenes are flat-out fantastic - this book features, among other things, an escape from a high-security Russian prison, a really fun (if OTT and logistically implausible) con on the not!KGB, and a car/snowmobile/air chase through a blizzard in and around St. ![]() In addition to that, this book features the return of my two favorite supporting characters from the previous book, one of whom was presumed dead (but isn't), and a sympathetic Russian agent who was chasing them before and is reluctantly helping them this time around, admittedly after being blackmailed into it. ![]() As I noted in the other review, the part of the previous book I liked best was when the characters were cat-and-mousing around Russia, and this book is nearly all that. This is the sequel to the post-Cold-War spy thriller The Eighth Sister, which I reviewed here and enjoyed with caveats, but this book I flat-out loved. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes this film work is the abundance of charm it has. Zimmerman, to combat the return of the former master of the house, the wicked Issac Izard, who hid a mysterious clock in the walls of the mansion that could be ticking down to Doomsday. ![]() Resolving to become a warlock himself, Lewis must now work with his uncle and their magical neighbor, Mrs. As he starts to adjust, he discovers the mystical nature of both his new home and Jonathan himself, who is a warlock. The narrative follows the young Lewis Barnavelt, a studious boy, recently orphaned, as he arrives in New Zebedee to live with his eccentric uncle Jonathan. Will it see the same success on the silver screen? I certainly hope so. “The House with a Clock in Its Walls” was a big hit upon release back in 1973. As such, we now have the feature film version of a children’s book that even I, avid reader that I am, had never heard of, despite them releasing installments up until 2008. In a cinematic world full of adaptations and sequels, Hollywood is now reaching for the really obscure for inspiration. ![]() |