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Children’s Ebook Review- Scooter and Cupcake

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Scooter and Cupcake
by Mary Anne Lipousky-Butikas
Kindle Edition, 46 pages
Published:  June 17, 2012
by Mary Anne Lipousky-Butikas
ASIN: B008J2AU6U
Book Source: Bought
4 1/2 stars

Book Description: Celebrate the joy of friendship and the satisfaction it brings with this delightful book about two best friends. Told in rhyme with cheerful, bright illustrations, Scooter & Cupcake take young readers on a lively, fast-paced journey of friendship and camaraderie. These two inseparable piggy pals share everything: possessions and activities as well as helping in times of need. Scooter & Cupcake is a great building block for young readers.

Mary’s Review: What a cute little rhyming book.  The piggy illustrations are adorable.
The story tells of two little piggies, Scooter and Cupcake, who have learned how to share everything they have with each other and how much fun it is.  They love each other and wouldn’t have it any other way.  It’s a great little book for teaching our young ones the joy of sharing with each other and the happiness it brings.
I recommend this book for ages 4-8.

About The Author: Mary Anne Lipousky-Butikas is the author and illustrator of the children’s book, Aunt Martha’s Bun (2011). A Signature Member of the Missouri Watercolor Society, she has exhibited work at the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library and has participated in the Missouri National Members’ Invitation Exhibitions. In 2011, she was awarded Signature Status in the Illinois Watercolor Society with her watercolors, Number 4 and Old Packard. Mary Anne’s watercolor, Virginia Theater, was juried into the 88th Annual Exhibition of the National Watercolor Society and her watercolors, Harley Davidson and Chicago Theater, were juried into the Transparent Watercolor Society of America for the 26th and 29th National Watercolor Exhibitions. She is also a member of the Illinois Artisans Program. Mary Anne’s subjects of choice for National Exhibitions have been architectural and realistic classic cars. Along with the aforementioned work, Mary Anne’s interests are subdivided in two categories; realistic and whimsical. Images include, among others, realistic vintage, classic cars, country, botanicals, whimsical kitchen art., inspirational, baby, new mother and numerous lines of art for children. Her whimsical frog images have been licensed for use on fabric and she has self- published several lines of note cards and Giclee art prints. Mary Anne is currently working with Next Day Art in Portland, Maine. Art publishing credits include: North Light Books’ Splash 6: The Magic of Texture, Watercolor Studio Magazine /Missouri Watercolor Society: Spring and Fall issue, 2007, Summer 2008 and Spring 2009.

Children’s Ebook Review- If You Have A Hat

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If You Have A Hat
by Gerald Hawksley
Kindle Edition, 38 pages
Published: February 5, 2011
by Gerald Hawksley
ASIN: B004MDLXC0
Book Source: Bought
5 stars

Book Description: “If you have a hat – put it on your head. If you have a bed bug – tuck him up in bed.” A silly rhyming picture book created especially for Kindle by children’s author/illustrator Gerald Hawksley. Simple silly rhyming text and jolly pictures make this an ideal Kindle experience for sharing with children.

Mary’s Review: What a delightful rhyming book. The illustrations are so cute and even though the book is silly rhyme it is well done and there is a lesson to it. If you have something, do something with it. Make it’s value more than it was worth to start with.

I recommend this book for ages 0-4.

About The Author: I am a children’s book author and illustrator and part time astronaut. I like making Kindle books. I live in a small castle beside the River Snood with my chums Lord Treacle, “Mousy” Mousington and Otto Fishblanket. We often go treasure hunting and then come home and have tea and cake, and sometimes, if the weather has been particularly inclement, tea and teacakes.

Children’s Ebook Review- The Golden Apple Tree- Free on Kindle

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The Golden Apple Tree
by Ana H Clark
Kindle Edition, 35 pages
Published: August 11, 2012
by  Amazon Kindle; Third
ASIN: B008WHKH2O
Book Source: Bought
4 Stars
Book Description: The Golden Apple Tree is a fairy tale story of love and hatred. A woman has three daughters; the two eldest are twins, and both were born with imperfections. One of them has one eye in the middle of her forehead, and the other one has three. They are both so proud and so much like their mother. The youngest, who is the very picture of her father for sweetness of temper, is kind and beautiful. The mother and her twin daughters treat Muriel horribly and make her work hard. Muriel has a baby deer, which she loves so very dearly, but the wicked mother killed the poor thing and served before Muriel a piece for her supper. Muriel knows what they have done. So in despair, she disappears into the woods. While she get lost in the forests, a fairy appears to her and grants her a wish. Muriel wishes for her beloved deer to be back by her side and her wish is granted. The magic animal, who is invisible to all, unless she is asleep, grants Muriel one wish per day. But when the twins discover her sleeping on Muriel’s bed, they become terrified thinking that the spirit of the deer is back to haunt them, (good for them, they deserve it).The mother, to protect her twin daughters from the spirit of the deer, will put an end to Muriel. If you want to find out how the story ends, buy the book, please. The moral of this story is… LOVE is stronger than evil and will always win out in the end.
Mary’s Review: A sweet story of three sisters each one different.  Two with personal and spiritual imperfections and one who was perfect in every way.  Although called The Golden Apple, it reminded me quite a bit of a rewritten version of Cinderella.   A wicked mother and two wicked sisters; a Prince Charming; a fairy Godmother(in this case baby deer); a missing father.  Given a wish a day by the magical baby deer, I wondered why she never wished for her father who had disappeared years before when she was a baby, instead of clothes and food every day.  Aside from this, I thought the story sweet and showed how unconditional love even for our enemies can overcome anything and that forgiveness is everything.
I recommend this book for ages 6 and above.
The illustrations were very good and children will love them.
About  The Author: Ana Herrera Clark was born in El Salvador, C.A., and first came to the United States at the age of eighteen. She is the mother of one daughter, and happily divorced. For nearly twenty years, she worked for the airlines as a Customer Services Agent. Due to a back injury, she retired from the airlines and discovered that she could write. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, near her daughter. She has studied English, as her first language; at Sacred heart College in Belmont, North Carolina, Computer Science at Central Piedmont community college, and Psychology at the University at Charlotte, North Carolina.
Children are her passion, and that is the reason she writes children’s books.
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