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Review:Wot, Wot?! Could it be another epic Redwall tale (tail?) thick with high adventure, heavy accents, and leek-and-turnip pasty from the beloved beast master himself, Brian Jacques? It is indeed, happy readers. Triss, the 15th book in the distinguished and wildly popular animal fantasy series, chronicles the exploits of a brave squirrel maid who travels from the bonds of slavery to the meeting of her destiny as a warrior at Redwall Abbey. Triss the squirrel, Shogg the otter, and Welfo the hedgehog, all slaves to the bloodthirsty royal ferret family of Riftgard, filch a ferret boat and sail away from the murderous clutches of Princess Kurda and her malevolent father, King Agarnu. Swearing revenge, Kurda sets out to recapture her slaves, her evi...
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Review:Madonna hangs up her material-girl cloak to teach children the importance of looking beyond a surface sheen. In The English Roses, the superstar's children's book debut, four little girls (the roses in question) "play the same games, read the same books, and like the same boys." Nicole, Amy, Charlotte, and Grace all love to dance the monkey and the tickety-boo
and they all are horribly jealous of Binah, the perfect, beautiful, smart, kind girl who lives nearby. Even though they know Binah is lonely, she makes them sick. They would say, "Let's pretend we don't see her when she walks by." And even, "Let's push her into the lake!" The pleasantly bossy narrator explains, "And that is what they did. No, silly, not the lake part, the preten...
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Review:Olivia, like many young pigs, experiences life very intensely. She is utterly obsessed with having her mother make her a red soccer shirt (even though the team color is green), until, of course, she discovers that her favorite toy, her very best toy, is missing, at which point she becomes utterly obsessed with finding it. She looks under the rug, the sofa, and the cat. She shouts accusingly at both her younger brother Ian and her baby brother William, who responds with an unsatisfactory "Wooshee gaga." That night (a dark and stormy one), she hears a horrible sound emanating from behind a closed door, and, in a dramatic scene illuminated by her flaming candelabra and showcased in a fold-out spread, she sees the family dog Perry chewing her f...
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Review:Little ghouls and boys will love looking behind each door in pop-up artist David A. Carter's Halloween Bugs. "Whos behind the rusty iron door?" "Whos behind the enchanted door?" Wouldn't you like to know? Aficionados of Carters other buggy books (The Twelve Bugs of Christmas, Easter Bugs, etc.) might have some inkling... six- and eight-legged critters will undoubtedly feature heavily. Behind creepy creaky (or whimsical) doors, readers will find bugs to rival the spookiest Halloween goblins and witches. Beware the "very hairy Scary Bug!" Dont turn your back on the "one-eyed, one-horned, Spotted People Eater Bug." And think twice before accepting sweets from the "luscious little Lollipop Bug." Carter's bug books specia...
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I very strongly suspect that whoever wrote the screenplay for "Sneakers" read
this first. There is a mob connected corporation. They wish to do some
espionage. They hire a tiger team to do it for them. They try to betray, and
possibly destroy, the tiger team. The team is then forced to "crack" their
former client. There is the same paranoia about the National Security Agency.
I don't know who the technical consultant was for this book, but he, she or it
did an even better job here than Captain Crunch did for the movie. We have
insider information, phone phreaking, database surfing, social engineering and
overconfident systems managers. Chapter thirteen introduces computer viral
programs, and I had to go back and check the copyrigh...
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