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The Great Snowball Escapade Book Review

 
The Great Snowball Excapade
By: J.D. Holiday
Illustrated by: J.D. Holiday
Publisher: Book Garden Publishing, LLC
ISBN Number: 978-0-9818614-2-5
Publication Date: March 16, 2010
Genre of Book: Children's Chapter book for 6 to 8 year olds
Five Stars
Reviewed by: Irene Roth
Synopsis:
Wilhemena Brooks’ cousin, Bud Dunphry come to live with her family. Wil, as she likes to be called, finds her pink pencil sharpener is missing after Christmas. Wil knows Bud has it! Who else would have taken it? Her mother told her to be nice to Bud and to treat him like she would like to be treated. If Wil treats Bud nicely does that change anything for her?

Book Excerpt:  
The afternoon was ruined. Wil was lying on her bed looking out the window. Snow was falling again. She should be outside with her friends right now. But because of Bud she was stuck in her room.

Bud was in Jason's room. He was making pretend noises. It sounded like he was playing with cars. The car raced around crashing into things.

The pencil sharpener was on Wil's pillow. Her mother found it. It had never been used. All this time the sharpener was next to the music book on the piano. Her mother said it must have been there since her family sang carols on Christmas Day.

 Wil remembered now. She placed the sharpener on the piano while she sang

'Jingle Bells' with her brother, Jason who was home last week for the holiday.

All this time Bud did not have her sharpener. He had told the truth.


Review:
This book is a story which includes characters who face a bully, make judgements without facts, and learn to get along together. The black and white illustrations are simple yet add some dimension to the story though the story-line stands alone. The characters are likeable and the theme is a common one amoung peers- learning to trust, get along, and compomise. Young readers will enjoy the story and leave with the satisfaction that all is not what it seems. I give the story a thumbs up.


 


Author Bio: J.D. Holiday is the author and illustrator of two children’s books: Janoose the Goose, picture book and a chapter book for six to eight year olds, THE GREAT SNOWBALL ESCAPADE. A chapbook of her short stories called, Trespasses was published in 1994 and she has had short stories printed in literary magazines and numerous articles about writing and publishing published.  She is a member of both The Society of Children’s Writers and Illustrators, (SCBWI) and Small Publishers of North America, (SPAN.)  J.D. Holiday lives in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania.



Authors Links:


Author Website: http://www.bookgardenpublishing.net

Blog Address: http://jdswritersblog.blogspot.com/

Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/#!/JDHoliday

Facebook URL: http://www.facebook.com/jdholiday 

Facebook Fan Page URL:   
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001087242518#!/pages/JD-Holiday/10150125088360294

Publisher Website: http://www.bookgardenpublishing.net




 J.D. Holiday's next World of Ink Tour stop is December 10th at Home School Blogger-Book Review http://homeschoolblogger.com/homeschoolbookreview/785969/

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