Fantasmical

I LOVED Dory Fantasmagory!  Loved it!  Loved it!  And Dory Fantasmagory and the Real True Friend was just as good.  It was fantastic.  Truly.  I loved how it didn't go in the way that I thought it would.  It totally avoided being just another story about making new friends and about how it is easy to go along with a clique and how about being different is great.  It was just original and fresh, even though it is a common topic, Dory, starting a new school year and her older brother and sister telling her not to be weird like she was last year or she won't have any friends.  Dory is a girl, but anyone of any gender would love this book.

Changing the Stars...

So after I read Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs, the first in the Roscoe Riley Rules series, I gave it four of five stars on goodreads.  Now that it has been awhile, I have changed it to five. I've talked about Roscoe before, and like I said, I just think he is a terrific kid.  This is a great first chapter book for boys or girls. Roscoe is in time out when he tells us the story.  I think that is the format of the series.  I loved it when he says at the end that best part of time out is the family hug at the end.  Squee!  

Freddie, Ivy, Bean and Junie B.

Freddie Thresher is a popular guy.  He has a series of twenty-seven books now.  Looks like one is due out this year so I guess he is still rolling.  This seems like one of those book package kinda deals, like I Survived.  The first one is this one, Tooth Trouble.
Freddie is a super rotten kid.  He is the male Junie B. pretty much.  I really can't say anything good about this book except that kids are reading it.  But man, it is pretty bad.  As I will write later, Roscoe Riley is a much better choice.