Hi! I'm substituting for Miss Tina this month! Which is great, because I get to share some of my favorite books ever with you!
Charlotte's Web
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The Wild Robot
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Ramona the Pest
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Harriet the Invincible
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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I found this book a few years ago, and fell in love with spunky Harriet! This is now a series of fractured fairytales featuring Harriet and her friends. The books are a mesh of graphic novel and traditional novel, which makes them appealing to the most reluctant of readers. And the stories are so funny, everyone will love them!
"Harriet Hamsterbone is not your typical princess. She may be quite stunning in the rodent realm (you'll have to trust her on this one), but she is not so great at trailing around the palace looking ethereal or sighing a lot. She finds the royal life rather . . . dull. One day, though, Harriet's parents tell her of the curse that a rat placed on her at birth, dooming her to prick her finger on a hamster wheel when she's twelve and fall into a deep sleep. For Harriet, this is most wonderful news: It means she's invincible until she's twelve! After all, no good curse goes to waste. And so begins a grand life of adventure with her trusty riding quail, Mumfrey...until her twelfth birthday arrives and the curse manifests in a most unexpected way." - from Goodreads.com |
I searched the internets to find this cover - it's the one from my childhood. And I remember this book as being the one that led me to my love of reading. As soon as I finished it I HAD to have Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - the sequel! I can remember the feel and smell of the pages. Charlie began a life-long love of books!
"When Charlie Bucket finds himself the proud winner of a Golden Ticket in a chocolate bar, he knows he has the greatest treat in the world in store for him. Join Charlie on his fantastic world-famous adventures in Willy Wonka's miraculous chocolate factory, where he sees strawberry-juice water pistols, luminous lollipops, a chocolate river, and rainbow drops and has the time of his life." - from Goodreads.com |