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My Favourite Chapter Books from 2023

January 10, 2024 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I read dozens of chapter books each year thanks to my book clubs. Here’s a round-up of my favourites from last year. Interestingly, in 2022, there were only three chapter books I really loved. This year, there are ten! Most of these are book club reads, so they’re books children have enjoyed reading too! Gobi […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Amelia Bedelia Goes Wild, books for ages seven and eight, By Royal Appointment, Chapter Books, Gobi Goes Viral, Gupshup Goes to Prison, Ottoline and the Yellow Cat, reading, review, Sad Animal Facts, Strangus Derangus and Other Adventures of Little Shambu, Talon the Falcon, The Canary Caper, Trunk Call for Ajju

Sad Animal Facts

November 23, 2023 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Did you know that frogs can close their ears? Or that anything a duckling meets within ten minutes of being born becomes its parent? (That reminds me of The Wild Robot, though the bird in the story is a gosling, not a duckling. Even so.) Those two aren’t sad animal facts, though, are they? In […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Brooke Barker, comic, Nonfiction, reading, review, Sad Animal Facts