tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84714496618712623922011-12-29T15:39:42.650-08:00Book Review Blogbookwormnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471449661871262392.post-2279429264397622482011-12-29T15:39:00.001-08:002011-12-29T15:39:42.656-08:00Barnes and Noble will not let me review books that have not been published yet - even though I have read them off of NetGalley. So - here is my way to share that information.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8471449661871262392-227942926439762248?l=bookwormbytes.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>bookwormnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471449661871262392.post-87836194341349505532009-05-05T06:47:00.000-07:002009-05-05T06:50:27.775-07:00I know that I am hardly the first person to have read this book, and now that it has won the National Book Award, I am pretty certain I won't be the last. <br /><br />I really enjoyed this book. However, I felt that the illustrations took something away from it. On the otherhand I was able to get some of my reluctant reader middle school students to pick up this book and read it *because* of the illustrations.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8471449661871262392-8783619434134950553?l=bookwormbytes.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>bookwormnoreply@blogger.com0