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Children’s Ebook Review – Lydia’s Fairy Wish

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Lydia’s Fairy Wish
by Linda Watts
Kindle eBook, 34 pages
Published March 10, 2012
by Linda Watts
ASIN: B007J931EM
Book Source: Bought
5 stars
Book Overview: After her mother dies, Lydia must go live with Aunt Beth, Uncle Mick and her three awful cousins on a farm in the middle of nowhere where magic never happens. But all that is changed by a thunderstorm. After lightning strikes the old oak tree in the pasture, Lydia finds a dazed little fairy in the soggy leaves and twigs underneath the tree. When the awful cousins get their hands on Lydia’s fairy, it’s up to her to figure out a way to send it back to Fairyland. Everyone knows that helping a fairy brings good luck. And Lydia’s luck is about to change!
Mary’s Review: What a wonderful story!  Even if I am 60, it left me wishing there was more.
Sweet Lydia learns that miracles do happen.  She learns that family love is unconditional.  That you can forgive those that hurt you and that you can make friends when you least expect it. 
Fairies?  Why not?  Lydia discovers one when she is sent to live with her Aunt Beth and Uncle Mick after her mother dies.  Her life changes drastically.  She goes from city life to farm life.  All she wants is to go back and live with Michael, the man she considers her father. He loved her and her mother.  She was what they considered a family, not what her Aunt Beth’s family was.  Once finding the fairy, she learned that certain fairies could grant wishes.  Was this one of them?  She had a wish but had to keep it to herself or else it wouldn’t come true.  What was her wish?  Would the fairy grant it? 
I recommend this book for ages 8 and up.
About the Author: Linda Watts was born in Missouri and grew up on a farm. After living in California for several years, she moved to Colorado and has lived there ever since. Currently she is the QA Director for a database company, and in her spare time she is (still) remodeling her almost 100-year old home. She also enjoys gardening, theater, and writing children’s books.

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Children’s Free Ebook Review- Maebelle’s Hat

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by Rita Hestand
Kindle eBook, 9 pages
Published  May 1, 2010
by Smashwords
ISBN: 978-1-4523-7557-1
ASIN: B003L78146
Book Source: Bought
4 .5 stars
Book Description from Amazon:  Mother Hen wants all the farm animals in the barn because Nado is coming.  But little Willy, the hard of hearing duck doesn’t know what a Nado is.
Everyone is finally in the barn except for Maebelle, so Willy set out to find
her.
Maebelle is so happy about her Easter Hat that she pays little attention to Willy, until her hat blows away.

Mary’s Review: Willy, poor little duck, is hard of hearing so when Mother Hen tells him a tornado is coming, he has no clue what a “Nado” is.  He only knows that if Mother Hen is worried about it, about him, and about everyone else then he should be to.  Mother Hen had one problem…someone was missing.  Where was Maebelle?  Maebelle, a vain cow, was out showing off her new hat.  Someone had to find her.  Willy takes on the job and sets off to find and bring Maebelle to safety.  Find out what happens when this little duck without thought for himself, puts himself in danger to help someone else.
I love this little book.  No matter how different we are, no matter what difficulties we have in life, we can always do whatever we if we put our minds to it.
The illustrations are adorable.
I recommend this book for ages 4-8.
About The Author:  Rita is a widow, with 2 daughters and 8 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. She writes contemporary, and historical romances along wtih children’s books and short stories too. She’s dabbled in poetry. You can find her at Amazon.com and smasnwords.com, at ritahestand.com, at Decadent Publishing, at Secret Cravings Publishing and at Whimsical Publications. She loves writing, reading, bowling, roller skating, kid parties, and family get togethers. Rita is retired and writes full time now.
I used to work at a school and would write poems for the kids during the holidays and stuff. Kids have been an intricate part of Rita’s life. She ran a day care for nearly twenty years. Try out her writing…

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Children’s Free Ebook Review- What the Fox Learnt

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What the Fox Learnt
by Aesop
Kindle eBook, 11 pages
Published June 13, 2011
by  Ripple Digital Publishing
ASIN:  B0055UP87U
Book Source: Bought
3.5 Stars
Book Description from Amazon: Four fox tales from Aesop’s fables presented with modern illustrations: The Fox and the Crow, The Fox and the Goat, The Fox and the Grapes and The Fox and the Cat. These are short stories that are fun and easy to read. Each story is summarized with a moral that you might have even heard of.
Mary’s Review: These are four short tales of a fox who seems to have an angle up his paw at all times.  Each tale has a moral value at the end.  Although I think they are a little difficult for a small child to understand, with some explaination they would understand.
The illustrations are colorful and keep the child’s attention.
I would recommend this book for older children 6-12.
About The Author: Aesop, or Æsop (c.6th. century BC), legendary Greek source of over 600 fables including The Tortoise and the Hare, written from the oral, have been translated into English by many including the Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914).
Through the use of (mostly) animal protagonists, Aesop’s fables consist of simple tales with moral endings transcending time and place so to be as relevant today as they were millennia ago. Universally popular, they still inspire many contemporary stories, plays, and movies.
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