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A fun time with a good rhyme. ☺️ I love the art style, both that the animals are familiar shapes but shaded in a mix of almost neon bright and pastel coloured pencil(?) not necessarily found in theanimal kingdom, and anthropomorphized just enough to feel like their own menagerie of storybook creatures. The sweet story beats of training and competing in high fives makes it feel like one long celebration and encouragement from start to finish. 🥰

I don‘t even know what I‘m in the mood for. I‘m just looking at the shelves and adding titles. #bookspinbingo

Everything about this cover beings me joy. It is a silly little book, but there is sharing food and celebration in amongst spicy salsa shenanigans. I look forward to exploring other works by this author/illustrator pairing.

This started off really well. I liked the setting, though it took me a while to remember who everyone was and their relationship to everyone else.

It started to drag about half way through. Plots were dropped (maybe to be explored in future books), the main couple got a bit repetitive, and the pace slowed down which was really felt.

4 ⭐ This book had a nice cadence; it‘s a nice idea and a great story. The kids are trying to get the parents to eat more fruits and vegetables. This goes exactly as one would expect, but it‘s nice for the kids to be begging the parents to eat something new. The illustrations are fun and go with the book. This book is written by the author of Go the F*** to sleep and Camila Alvarez, who is the wife of Matthew McConaughey.

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Also #auldlangspine! I really lucked out with my partner this year. What I love about your list @CBee is the variety of styles you chose, and yet they are all so enjoyable. This was a fun, hilarious and cozy caper that was perfect for unwinding at the end of the evening. I loved that it had a truly all-ages cast of characters ranging in age from 8 months to 90 years. (Ok, he wasn‘t *actually* 90, but what happened was … )

Have been busy and gotten behind on posting proper reviews. So welcome to my Friday Night Review Dump!

Summary:
An Anonymous Girl: 3⭐️ - decent thriller with some annoying flaws
O Caledonia: 4.5 ⭐️ - haunting, poetic, evocative, and compelling
Frozen River: 3.5 ⭐️ - well written, tautly plotted
How to Age … : 3 ⭐️ - cute, witty, cozy; a fun read
Friday Afternoon Club: 4⭐️ - powerful and entertaining memoir of an extraordinary family

If Rick and Morty did a Fantasy Book. I know a lot of Fantasy fans are craving 'just a fun adventure story' and this delivers on that. It's sex positive without being smut. It's LGBTQ+ positive but it's incidental to the plot. I had fun reading it, about four stars worth of fun. Not going to be a waste of anyone's time to read it but depends on your sense of humour if it hits fully or not.

3.5 ⭐This is a collection of children‘s poems. Much in the vein of where the sidewalk ends or anything by Shel Silverstein. Jeff foxy does an admirable job. I do think that sometimes his poems are half thought of or feel like they‘re missing the ending But overall, they are a nice pleasant read. I think kids will like them and the illustrator does a great job bringing them to life. I‘m not sure how well you hear Jeff Foxworthy voice.