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This book is just like the TV episodes...the same stories are played out over and over. I actually hate reading Peppa Pig books because they're so boring, but my son looooves this book, and it's been a great tool to teach him new vocabulary.

Nice counting book.

Peppa and her family wake up on Christmas morning to open their presents. Grandpa gets a drone which he has always wanted. Oh no the battery gets low and it heads for home (The North Pole). What will they do?
This title is a cute colorful adaptation of the popular children’s series. Babies, toddlers and young preschoolers will enjoy the story. The bright colorful illustrations will capture their attention as they follow the simple text. This could be a storytime read aloud to prompt discussion about what drones are.

Dot: For Pet's Sake is a lovely adaption of DOT the children's television show.

Dot offers to take care of some friends' pets, and suddenly she's become a petsitter of many types of pets! With the help of an app, she knows when to take care of the animals and how.

This is a bit longer of a children's picture book - it has chapters! I think it would be suitable for kindergarteners and up. It's cute and funny, which is a definite plus for young readers. It barely seems like 80 pages when you get reading. The little chapters are just long enough too with lots of pictures to keep you occupied and focused on the story.

It's still a cute read with stunning, colourful pictures that will fit perfectly on your kiddo's shelf. I can't say if this is an accurate adaptation of Dot, but it is mighty cute!

Four out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Candlewick Press for sending me a free copy of this e-book in exchange of an honest review.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Peppa enjoys Christmas with her family, including her grandparents who are staying with them. Everyone is excited when they find their presents on Christmas morning, especially Grandpa Pig who received a drone.

Sadly, while playing with the drone, it doesn’t come back to them. Grandpa Pig tries to cover his unhappiness while they have Christmas dinner. Suddenly the doorbell rings and it is the big man himself, Santa Claus, and he has some news!

This is a fun tale about a family celebrating Christmas, and all the merrymaking that goes on. Children will love seeing the Christmas presents Santa left, and what is in them. Best of all, little ones will love that Santa comes to a home during the day, and everyone gets to talk with him.

This happy ending tale is a five-star, hard-backed, picture book full of eye-catching illustrations and lots of excitement. The back of the book cover contains a large Christmas poster ready for coloring. Children aged 2 - 5 years old will enjoy this book.

Candlewick Press has provided Tickmenot with a complimentary copy of, “Peppa Pig and the Christmas Surprise,” for the purpose of review.

Great seek and find color book to read with kids.

Peppa is having a busy day at school – learning numbers and letters, painting, making music, and playing outside.

Join Peppa and her family as they discover many ways to celebrate Earth Day. From recycling their waste into like bins, to riding an electric car that does not pollute, to giant windmills that make electricity, Peppa learns lots of things that are good for the earth. They all travel to a botanical garden where they find many unusual plants, and are impressed by the honey bee’s importance for growing things.

Reading this adventure is a fun and easy way for children to understand ways to take care of the planet. This over-sized, hard-backed book contains bright, eye-catching illustrations on every page.

More ideas for Earth Day, that are ready to color, are given on the back of the dust jacket. Recommendations include starting a garden, or going on a nature walk. This 5-star book will be enjoyed by children through six years old.

Candlewick Publishers has provided Tickmenot with a complimentary copy of, Peppa Pig and the Earth Day Adventure, for the purpose of review.

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Apparently Dot is a TV show based off another book. This is a beginning chapter book, easier than Magic Tree House, but harder than a leveled reader. Dot has a tablet where she keeps important things, like reminders on what needs to be done to take care of everyone’s pets. But taking care of 5 pets is heavy work and hijinks ensue. I can see kids liking this series. The story was not bad, flowed well, and was entertaining.½

Beautiful linocut artwork in subdued colors illustrates fourteen different birds from all around the world. Each double page spread features a specific bird and a couple of paragraphs about its habitat and physical features. The pictures are worthy of framing. This book may appeal more to adults than children.

This is one of those absolutely lovely books that I can't really see an audience for at my library but which I want anyways.

Each full spread covers a bird with some interesting quirk, attribute, or behavior with a linocut print of the bird and its habitat. Readers will learn about the Toco Toucan, largest of the toucans, and how it uses its famous beak. Then there's the Greater Bird of Paradise, largest of this beautiful family of birds with a marvelous mating display. Each bird has something that makes it special - the hummingbird, kakapo, or peregrine falcon.

There are two paragraphs of fairly dense text for each bird, some set against colored backgrounds that make it difficult to read. The oversized book features lovely but static prints of the various birds and their habitats. There is no back matter, but there is an acknowledgement of consultation with The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (UK).

This isn't a book for storytime, nor will it appeal to readers who need to research or who are looking for a chapter book. It's more of a coffee-table book really, something for bird-lovers to pore over with their children (if they're patient enough to sit still) or to dip into to learn a little about a favorite bird.

Verdict: A beautiful book, this would make a lovely keepsake or gift for a fan of birds but is less likely to find a home in a library or school.

ISBN: 9781536201697; Published 2018 by Candlewick Studio; Review copy provided by the publisher; Donated to the library

Peppa pig and the little train is about a little train that is not a toy and all the kids like it. I did not find the moral of this story other than a possibility them of unity between people over a larger object.

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I both really loved this book and also didn't really like it.

I really love what it's doing. It takes the stories of people alive during WWII and records them in a format that is accessible for children (though perhaps sometimes a bit too heavy for them, for obvious reasons), saving them for posterity. There are stories from all different angles, from people who were soldiers during the war and people who were children, Jews and Germans and Poles and Brits and Americans and more telling their individual slivers of the grand narrative of the war.

On the other hand, I didn't really like it in parts because some of the stories–especially toward the beginning–were kind of boring: basically, "I was evacuated and lived on a farm for a while." Plus there was clearly some strong editing done, because most of the narratives were told in the same way, even though they came from vastly different people and were recorded in the first-person narrative.

I flipped forward after a while, and once we get into the later parts of the war and its end, then the really impactful stories begin. There are stories from several Jewish children who survived death camps, or whose parents went into them. There are pictures of the people back then, too, which made the stories so much more real. The one that is absolutely most shattering is a two-page spread of Hungarian Jews fresh off the cattle trucks at Auschwitz-Birkenau, waiting to be sorted. The caption informs us that only the strong were spared from being immediately sent to the gas chambers, and it's a thousand times more horrifying than just reading the fact because you can look into the faces of all these people about to be murdered.

It's - it's pretty hard, to be honest. Some of the material in this book is extremely horrifying and depressing. Add in a little bit of bad language (mainly a couple of "hell"s) and this is definitely not a book you should be handing off to your young children any time soon. But it is a pretty good collection of stories from across the war, tied together with explanations of the historical context, and I think it is important that we carry these stories with us into the future generations.

Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Peppa Pig does not know what she wants to be for Halloween. She thinks maybe a pirate, or a nurse, or a clown? Every costume she picks is already being worn by one of her friends. She finally decides on a princess costume, which is not complete without a pair of mud boots! Based on the popular Peppa Pig television series, fans will pick this one up and it would make a great read aloud.

A collection of first-hand experiences during World War II told through interviews for younger readers. Although mostly focused in Europe, there are a few stories from the U.S. and a couple from Japan. The accounts come from many backgrounds and illustrate quite a large scope of the war and how it affected people. Some interviewees worked from the Home Front, others were fighter pilots, some POWs, and others refugee children. Lots of photographs are included. For young history fans.

LT Early Reviewer

My review is a dissent from the others for this Early Reviewer title. It is a book targeting children, middle-grade/juvenile level. It is broken up into sections with different people involved in WWII talking about their experiences, both on the home front and around the world, and from a variety of ages. Many of them are specifically narrated to children (relations or random school children).

However, the selection of voices is homogeneous. The focus is British, yet there are almost no (I think literally no, but I don't have the energy to check through every page again) people from the Commonwealth represented. Yet there are numerous Americans quoted. There are also precious few pages devoted to the Holocaust, representing a very narrow range of experience. Some of them are taken up with a member of a host family speaking for one of the Kindertransport (or similar) children, though this person was only born in 1940 and many of those children are still alive to tell their own stories. There is also an implication that Alan Turing killed himself simply because he was gay, with no mention of the persecution of the government and his chemical castration (and that bit written by someone who has generally opposed gay rights).

It is possible that the publisher was just lazy in putting this together. I don't know. There is some merit in the book, but it could have been so much better. Just because a book is intended for children doesn't mean it needs to be narrow or that the standard is lower. Indeed, the standard should be higher, especially because children tune out of enjoying history at this age. Not recommended.½

This is a collection of short reminiscences about the contributors' experiences in World War II. The subtitle “Stories of war as told to children of today” is somewhat misleading. While some of these accounts originated in a children's newspaper, the voices of the children of today are absent. Some of the contributors were children or teens during the war, but many more saw military action. Although the majority of the contributors are British, there are representative voices from the United States, France, Germany, other European nations, and Japan. The stories have been grouped in themes such as “Evacuees,” “Blitzed Britain,” “The Resistance,” “Woman at War,” “The Holocaust,” and “The Fall of Japan,” following the general progression of the war years. A few of the stories are reprints and/or excerpts, but most will be new to readers. This is a welcome contribution to the preservation of the history of the war years. The time is coming all too soon when there will be no one living to share their wartime memories with those of us who were born after the war's end.

This review is based on an advance reading copy provided by the publisher through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program.½

A moving compilation of stories from World War II, told from the people and survivors who lived through it, fought in it, or were affected by it. Many of the stories were told to and recorded by young children today. The stories covered the preparations for war, the war itself, the impacts in Europe, from bombings to resistance movements, women at war, the Holocaust, and Hiroshima. The most interesting juxtaposition were the stories of the bomber pilot of the Enola Gay and one of Hiroshima's survivors. The pilot never regretted his actions and believed he did the best and right thing. The Hiroshima survivor lived for years with pain, suffering and rage, until he learned to forgive those who dropped the bomb in the mid-1980s. A valuable record of personal recollections of World War II.

Voices From The Second World War is a wonderful collection of first hand stories from people who'd lived through the war. Soldiers in the RAF, grandparents who as young children lived in Belgium, Germany, France, etc and had to be evacuated, POWs and even female pilots share their testimonies here of what it was like living during one of the most devastating wars in history. Some of the stories are very brief, while others go into more detail. The book has pictures of the storytellers on each page, as young children in the 1930's and 1940's,and then on the opposite corner a present day photograph. I loved the pictures. They reveal young, innocent faces, bravely facing their realities. And then recent photographs remind you of how each older person has a story to tell, sometimes a horrific one. The book cover of this ARC edition looks like a school history textbook, which would put off some potential readers. I think any upcoming editions would benefit by perhaps another cover photo with a different font, to make it more accessible and attractive to readers.

I received this book through Librarything.com Early Review giveaway, for a honest review. These are my thoughts on this book and no one else has influence my review. I really enjoyed this book. I love that this book involved children of today interviewing the people who went through the Second World War. It had a lot of photos in it. It was laid out very well.

Children interviewed those who lived through WWII (as fighters, as children, as prisoners, as helpers in the war effort in a variety of ways in a number of different countries). Most of the people they interviewed were relatives who had never told their stories before. Because they're talking to children, it's not a scary book, but it is eye-opening. I got goosebumps reading it. The photographs throughout make it visually appealing and add to both the horror of war and its "lighter" moments—after all, people are people and find a way to transcend evil. My only concern is that some of the stories make war sound exciting.½