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BOOK OF THE MONTH CHALLENGE: JUNE

You didn't think I forgot about BotM, did you? Because I didn't. I would never. :)

June's book was A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon and I certainly read it. Was it bad? No! Was it fun and silly? Yes! Was it superficial and did it lack depth? Yes. I think it would have benefitted greatly from being longer. Not even necessarily a full length 400 page novel, but I needed more than one page about The Final Battle.

🐸 Froggy: A Pond Full of Pals! by Paige Walshe

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟/5

It is time for Froggy to leave his pond family and travel downstream to find a pond of his own. Lily pad ready, snacks packed, Froggy is going on an adventure where he’ll meet new friends!

This book was equal parts whimsical, cute, and hilarious. I loved the narrator and seeing Froggy interact with fish (Fishtopher), a Wizard, bees (Buzzter), and so much more! His adventures were fun and lighthearted, and sometimes dark, like when a human steals Fishtopher from the water and Froggy swears to enact revenge for his friend by having the monsters of the woods teach him how to bite.

book blurb post! For two - royal assassin & assassin’s quest - books 2 and 3 of the Farseer trilogy (comments below are primarily about book 3 and a bit disorganized)

🐝 The Hidden Wisdom of Animals: Surprising Things We Can Learn from Nature by Kate Siber, illustrated by Kaitlynn Copithorne

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟/5

“Just like all the creatures in this book and across the planet, we are animals too. We breathe and move. We take in food, air, and light. Even if we don’t hear like an owl, see like a fly, or have the sensitive skin of a frog, we sense the world around us in astonishing detail. We too have gifts to share with our fellow citizens of Earth.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

Gundula Blumi - Fata Morgana

I totally forgot I bought this book from work last week and I love it so far. Halfway through and my favorite poem is “A Dog on His Master”.