Book Reveiw: February Friends by Ron Roy

Title: February Friend (Calendar Mysteries #2)
Author: Ron Roy
Genre: Young Adult

Challenges: To Be Continued…Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, Read and Review Challenge 2010, 2010 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge, 100 + Reading Challenge, Young Adult Reading Challenge, YA Through the Decades, 1st In A Series, Pages Read 2010, A to Z challenge, What An Animal III Challenge


Rating: 3/5
No. of Pages: 69
Published: 2009


Back Cover: It’s a Valentine’s Day party! Bradley is passing out his class’s valentines, but one of them has no name on it. Inside, the card tells the class to look in the closet. When they open the closet door, the kids find a rabbit named Douglas in a cage! What mysterious “friend” left him there? And why? Then the bunny gets sick. It sup to Bradley, Brian, Lucy and Nate to track down his owner and figure out what is wrong with poor little Douglas.

Mine: The kids are committed to finding out who left Douglas behind for the class to take care of. The kids do manage to find the owner and realize they actually know him. He’s left Douglas, because he feels he can no longer take care of him himself. The kids help him realize that he can still take care of him.

Book Review - Flotsam by David Wiesner

Title: Flotsam
Author: David Wiesner
Genre: Children’s (Caldecott Medal Winner 2007, British Fantasy Award 2006)

Challenges: PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, Read and Review Challenge 2010, Young Readers Reading Challenge 2010, 2010 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge, 100 + Reading Challenge, Pages Read 2010, A to Z challenge, What An Animal III Challenge, 1001 Childrens book Before I Grow Up

Rating: 5/5
No. of Pages: 32
Published: 2006


Inside Front Cover: Flotsam: Something that floats.

If it floats in the ocean, it may wash up on the beach,

Where someone may find it and be astonished, and share the discovery with someone else --

Mine: What a wonderful book – a true picture book that is wonderfully illustrated. The books states the pictures were executed as watercolors.

Haven’t you always wondered about setting off a message in a bottle? well this is a camera and the wonderful stories it can tell. The blue hermit crab is the start and it ends with the waves hitting another beach.

Book Review: Frog Goes To Dinner by Mercer Mayer

Title: Frog Goes To Dinner
Author: Mercer Mayer
Genre: Children’s

Challenges: To Be Continued…Challenge, PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, What an Animal II, Read and Review Challenge 2010, Young Readers Reading Challenge 2010, 2010 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge, 100 + Reading Challenge, Pages Read 2010, A to Z challenge, What An Animal III Challenge

Rating: 4/5
No. of Pages: 32
Published: 1974


Back Cover: Frog goes to dinner…..

Mine: This is a great new series (to me) and of course it has frogs in it, so how can I not read it?

Once again the illustrations can’t help but tell the wonderful story of how frog disrupts a fancy dinner with boy’s family. He jumps in the saxophone, then smashes the drum, jumps in the salad that scares the women, then jumps in a drink and finally is thrown and boy’s family is asked to leave the fancy restaurant.

Book Review - Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London

Title: Froggy Get Dressed
Author: Jonathan London
Genre: Children’s
Challenges: PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, What an Animal II, Read and Review Challenge 2010, Read Your Own Books 2010, TBR Challenge 2010, Reading From My Shelves Project 2010, Young Readers Reading Challenge 2010, 100 + Reading Challenge,

Rating: 4/5
No. of Pages: 32
Published: 1999


Back Cover: Froggy pulls on his boots – Zup! Puts on his hat – zat! Ties on his scarf – Zwit! Tugs on his mitten – Zum! But what did Froggy forget?

Mine: My nephews know I love all books that have to do with frogs, so they bought me a set of several of the “Froggy” series for Christmas.
Frogs are suppose to sleep through winter (as should everyone else), but he didn’t want to there was snow out. As he dressed to go out he forgot something – his pants. He came in and got dressed all over again and then he forgot his shirt and coat. He once again comes in to try to get dressed – what no long johns? Once more time he comes back in – it’s just too much and he decides to go back to bed.
That’s the way I feel – why else live in California. The snow is always fun and pretty, but the layers of close that are needed are often too much.

Book Review - Froggy Bakes A Cake by Jonathan London

Title: Froggy Bakes A Cake
Author: Jonathan London
Genre: Children’s
Challenges: PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, What an Animal II, Monthly Mixer Mele, Read and Review Challenge 2010, Read Your Own Books 2010, TBR Challenge 2010, Reading From My Shelves Project 2010, Young Readers Reading Challenge 2010, 100 + Reading Challenge,

Rating: 4/5
No. of Pages: 32
Published: 2000


Back Cover: It is Froggy’s mother’s birthday, and Froggy wants to make her a cake all by himself! In the kitchen, Froggy finds out that baking a cake is a little harder – and messier! – than he thought. But with a pinch of imagination and an extra dash of silliness, Froggy will serve up a homemade birthday cake his mother will never forget!

Mine: My nephews know I love all books that have to do with frogs, so they bought me a set of several of the “Froggy” series for Christmas. I started with this one, since my birthday is coming up.
What a wonderful story of not following a recipe and having an exploding cake. I’m one of those that cook by the book, so this was a story about my worst fears of not following the recipe.

Young Readers Reading Challenge for 2010

January 1 - December 31, 2010


Becky of Becky's Book Reviews is hosting the Young Readers Reading Challenge for 2010. The goal is to read 12 children's books. Becky writes:

Think of this as referring to the "E" (Easy) and "J" (Juvenile or Junior) sections of the library.

A list is not required. Choose what you like. Choose as you go. Or plan it all out now. Whatever you want.

Learn more and sign up by visiting the post about the challenge.