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Sunday, 12 April 2020

The Rabbit Ate My Homework by Rachel Elizabeth Cole

In this book Drew and Libby are back as Drew starts middle school and Libby wants to set up a rabbit rescue after being inspired by a cat and dog adoption drive at their local pet shop.

They come up with Rabvocats with Tabitha and Drew's help as Libby is so excited about starting the club for fellow rabbit lovers.

However as Drew struggles to be 'cool enough' to fit in at school, ending up in trouble in the principals office and getting in with a group of bad guys thanks to his best friends there's tons of drama especially when the guys don't like rabbits...

I did like the book but parents and rabbit lovers be ones the last quarter of the book involves talk about preserving them and a horrible prank takes place, be warned.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Monday, 25 November 2019

Unraveling Rose by Brian Wray & Shiloh Penfield

This children's picture book comes with a twist, a necessary and useful message entwined in a cute story of having fun with friends.

Based around the life of a boy and his stuffed toy rabbit, Rose we see them play together until one day Rose's compulsions get too much for her and take over her life as she becomes fixated on a loose thread she has hanging off of her and it becomes all she thinks about.

The illustration's are so beautiful and Rose rabbit had such detail that children can fall in love with her cute raggedy design while engrossed in the tale.

There is a final note at the end of the book advising about OCD and traits to watch out for in children from early on but of course OCD can come on at any age.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Monday, 12 August 2019

The Curse Of The School Rabbit by Judith Kerr

Tommy hates the school rabbit Snowflake while his sister loves him and even makes a dance up about him!

So when Snowflake comes to stay things go wrong with their actor dad out of work, Angie falling ill and then inspiration strikes Tommy to write about the curse of The Rabbit and after his stay ends, things take a dramatic turn for the better...

This is a fun little book that animal lovers will enjoy and by the great Judith Kerr too what a way to finish her wonderful career with this tale.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Monday, 5 August 2019

The Rabbit Ate My Homework by Rachel Elizabeth Cole

In this book, Drew and his sister Libby find and take home a stray rabbit they find randomly in a box after it's been abandoned.

As Drew hides the rabbit in his room, his sister complains as she wants to play and dress up the rabbit all the time.

Meanwhile their parents don't know about the rabbit and Drew tries hard to keep it a secret as their parents won't allow them to have a pet despite Libby pleading with them.

Drew hates the rabbit though after it wrecks his room, chewing cables, comics and peeing on his bed too! But he's been blackmailed by his sister as he wrecked his new bike and fakes it being stolen, he has no choice but to go along with it all!

This book was so fun to read especially being a rabbit owner, the language of the rabbit is so true, my bunny acts the exact same ways pretty much! The joy the bunny brings Libby is relatable and the anger Drew feels is honest and both character voices were spot on. The way the bunny comes into their lives is so random I loved it.

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Goodreads Quotes

Eve beinguniquebeingme’s quotes

"You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes."— Rosemarie Urquico

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