Had 3 days off and accomplished my goal to read each day to the grandkids via Marco Polo. My son remembered I‘m Dirty as one of his younger brothers‘ favorites. Tagged book is my favorite of this group.
Cute read.
Last week they found cancer in my dad's prostate and today we're at the hospital having it removed. The doctors are hopeful that they'll be able to get out all out and that he'll be fine... but it's still a really stressful wait. 🤞 (UPDATE- SURGERY WENT WELL!)
I'm reading this thriller about an active shooter at a zoo. I'll definitely post a full review when I'm done, because the author is doing some really neat stuff.
1. 📚 📺 Behind Her Eyes the book and the series on Netflix are great.
2. Caramel Apples - all kinds
3. Whenever the mood strikes really but I probably read more when the kid is asleep lol 🌙
4. These lovey Litsy events of course 😉 and the fact that Texas very briefly stops acting as an agent of Satan 🥵 (currently still waiting 😂)
5. My handle uses my middle name, Marie which I share with half the planet I‘m sure 🥱
#BatBrigade
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This is a hard book to rate, because the good parts were easily 4-5 stars, but overall, the book was too unfocused and I didn‘t appreciate Ackerman‘s tendency to indulge in fanciful flights of imagination. She would say something might have happened a certain way and then describe her imagined scene in rich detail. She writes too poetically to tell this harrowing war story in a compelling way and it was a struggle to get into.
This is a very child friendly book that uses only pictures and no words to tell the story of a runaway walrus, on his attempt to not be captured. This story would allow a great opportunity for children to come up with their own written story lines based upon the pictures that are presented.
pickThe illustrations use various elements of design in order to tell the story. We see the use of both high and low intensity colors throughout the story. We can also see the use of line as dotted and straight lines are presented throughout the story to depict movement as well as mood. The use of form was also present as many illustrations contained 3-D objects that displayed height, width and depth. Many 2-D shapes are also present in the pictures.
