Tag Archives: childrens’ books

Reading The Rainbow: And Tango Makes Three

Posted on December 9, 2017 by E

Reading The Rainbow is an original regular feature at Musings From Neville’s Navel. I’m a lesbian bookworm who loves to geek out about books and gay stuff, so why not talk about both subjects at once?! Basically, I review books … Continue reading →

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The Childhood Book Tag

Posted on November 21, 2017 by E

Time for another tag! I’m home for Thanksgiving break and feelin’ nostalgic, so I thought I’d do a tag about my favorite books from childhood, which I got from Olivia @ LibroLiv. Enjoy! What is the first book you remember … Continue reading →

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10 Banned Or Challenged Books That I Own & Love

Posted on October 1, 2016 by E

Banned Books Week runs from September 25th through October 1st this year. Since I do a post about it every year, this time I thought I would list my top ten favorite banned and/or challenged books… THAT I OWN. I left … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Beverly Cleary

Posted on April 12, 2016 by E

Beverly Cleary turned one hundred years old today. It’s hard to wrap my head around that idea. She was born into a completely different era. Literature and technology and medicine were worlds away from what they are now. Women were … Continue reading →

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Thoughts On “The Neverending Story” By Michael Ende

Posted on September 1, 2014 by E

“If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger– If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father … Continue reading →

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Behold My (Puny) Bookish Collections!

Posted on August 3, 2014 by E

Hello there, and good morning! Once again, I’m linking up over at The Broke and the Bookish as part of their weekly Top Ten Tuesday feature. This time, the prompt is: “What ten authors do you have the most books … Continue reading →

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Ten Books To Read If You Watch “Doctor Who”

Posted on May 3, 2014 by E

Books! People never really stop loving books. Fifty-first century – by now you’ve got holovids, direct-to-brain downloads, fiction mist. But you need the smell. The smell of books, Donna! – Tenth Doctor, “Silence in the Library” Time for another Top … Continue reading →

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Review: The Graveyard Book

Posted on February 21, 2014 by E

After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Children’s Books

Posted on September 1, 2013 by E

“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” – C.S. Lewis Although I will be an adult in only a little over a year, I am a little kid at … Continue reading →

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August 2011 NaBloPoMo: My Favorite Picture Book

Posted on August 1, 2011 by E

I’m going to try to do the August NaBloPoMo (it’s like NaNoWriMo, which I will be doing this November). I have to post at least once a day and then I get this little badge to add to this blog. August’s … Continue reading →

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