Books by Audrey Vernick
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review 1: Brothers at Bat is fascinating story of the Acerra all-brother baseball team in the 1920s and 1930s. It would be a great story to use to teach what life was like in America during that time...baseball was an important pastime, girls didn't play professional sports, the 1939 World...
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review 1: Book about the difficulties of girls' friendships--especially when one girl's parents separate--leaving her sad and somewhat depressed. This book addresses the changes girls go through when they're trying to grow up and hormones are suddenly part of the equation--along with lack ...
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review 1: For Kindergarten. One might think that a buffalo has no place in kindergarten. They would be wrong. Everyone is different and special in kindergarten, and a buffalo is no exception. Sure, the buffalo might be too big for the swings, have strange eating habits and have trouble hol...
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review 1: This book made for what could quite possibly be the most fun I've had in storytime. More fun than the story itself (which there wasn't really much of, as it reads more like a "how-to" manual) were the opportunities it created. I had the kids trying out their ability to just "sing...
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review 1: Surprisingly, this 3-5 storybook is a satire on those amazing animal friendship stories you always hear about on the news. Vinnie the dog wanders into the zoo, and tries to befriend Bogart the Rhino. Despite the fact that Bogart clearly dislikes Vinny's company, the media falls ...
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review 1: "Bump Budda Budda Bump, TAT TATTA TAT TAT! BOOOOOOOOM!I think your buffalo is trying to tell you something. He was born to play drums. You have to teach him how."There are so many challenges for a buffalo who wants to play drums - what to sit on, how to hold drumsticks with his h...
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review 1: Casey Snowden, the third generation of a family that runs a school for umpires, dreams of being a sports writer. He joins the middle school newspaper staff, convinced he's on his way to stardom. Of course, there are obstacles. The newspaper's tradition is that sixth graders don't...