ABOUT THE BOOK:
To Drool, it feels like her mom and dad have been gone an awfully long time. So long that she can hardly taste the fried ice cream Grandma made for dinner, or enjoy hide-and-seek with Kip, Grandmaas pet chicken. Not even playing dress up, having a whole snuggly hugging hour with Grandma, or getting to put the sprinkles on the triple-decker cupcakes can put a smile on Droolas face. aIam an orphan,a she tells Kip.
A childas fi rst sleepover at Grandmaas is given a hilarious and tender treatment in this candy-colored book by talented newcomer Aileen Leijten.

MICHAEL’S THOUGHTS:
This is another Cybil Award contender.

This is a cute story about a little girl named Drew (Drool). She is at her grandmothers house. Her grandmother is a funny lady because she has a chicken for a pet and follows Drool around.

For dinner the grandmother made fried ice cream, marzipan shortcake and for dessert they have belgain waffles.

Drool is spending the night. In the morning she wakes up to the smell of her grandmothers pancakes. She plays dress up with the chicken and then hide and seek. When the chicken doesn’t appear Drool gets upset and cries.

So her grandmother and Drool make cupcakes. Drool thinks she is an orphan and that everyone has left her but really no one has.

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ABOUT THE BOOK:
A lovelorn frog and some very mixed-up spells! A hopeful frog tries to turn himself into a handsome prince by piecing together the torn pages of a spell book. There are lots of laugh-out-loud moments to be had with the mix-and-match pages as Frog struggles through a host of jumbled spell combinations and extraordinary guises (Rabbit! Frabbit? ! Prabbit! ? ! ) In search of his fairy-tale ending. Children and adults will love sharing this wonderfully funny and inventive book.

MICHAEL’S THOUGHTS:
This is another book that was on the Cybils Award list.

We loved Spells. I loved the cover.

Spells is about a lonely little frog who finds a book and uses his imagination to pretend he is a pirate sailing the seven seas. But its just a book of spells and he is just a frog.

He then pretends its abook about castles and he is handsome prince kissing a beautiful princess. But its just a book of spells and he is just a frog.

Then frog realizes it and decides he will cast a spell and make himself a handsome prince. The spell works until he kisses a princess.

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ABOUT THE BOOK:
The happiest day of Wink’s life was when he was accepted to the Summer Moon School for Young Ninjas. He is sure that he will be a great ninja. Silence is the first lesson and everyone is very very silent … except for Wink. Stealth is the second lesson and everyone is very very stealthy … except for Wink. Finally, Wink decides that he will be silent and stealthy. But no one notices! What’s the point of being a great ninja if no one notices? Maybe Wink wasn’t meant to be a ninja?

This daring debut is an adventure-lover’s dream.

MICHAEL’S THOUGHTS:
I really enjoyed this book. I loved that the ninja would do anything to try and fit in even though he didn’t.

To be a great ninja you have to be quiet and to blend in both things that Wink couldn’t do. Wink was sad because he wanted to prove to Master Zutsu he was a good ninja.

Coming home one day he heard noises and he went to check it out. A boy was practising his aecrobatics and Wink told him he was too stuff so he showed the boy.

What do you think become of Wink? Did he become that ninja he dreamed he would be?

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ABOUT THE BOOK:
Can Abigail spell her way to the top?

Abigail is good at many things. She can dance the cha-cha, make up stories to tell her best friend, George, and strike a fabulous pose. But there is one thing she loves to do most of all: Abigail loves to s-p-e-l-l. When her school announces the annual spelling bee, Abigail spends her days practicing with the help of George, but things don’t go according to plan. Can George convince Abigail that winning isn’t everything?

Anna Alter’s gentle text, which contains fun words to spell throughout, and gorgeous illustrations make for a perfect match in this endearing story of friendship.

Michael’s Thoughts:
We first heard about the Cybils Awards last year and Michelle from GalleySmith is hosting the Cybils Award Challenge 2010. You can go check out her site to find out how to take part.

Abigail Spells is one of the books that is on the list.

We really enjoyed this book. Abigail can do many things such as dance while George plays the maracas. make up stories for George and pose while George paints her all of which she enjoys doing but there is one thing that she loves to do and that is spell.

Abigail is excited when her school has a spelling bee. She practices and practices. Which added to the book as kids can learn how words are spelled. Then on the day of the spelling bee Abigail gets nervous and can’t spell her word “Elephant”. Abigail is really upset. She doesn’t want to dance, pose, read a story or even speak.

Will George come to the rescue and get Abigail to speak?

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