Bunnicula: Much Cuter Than You'd Expect

Well, that was quick.

I just finished reviewing Hatchet 2 days ago, and now here I am writing Bunnicula's review already.

To be fair or honest or whatever, Bunnicula is a very short book. I'm definitely not a fast reader.

Like Hatchet, Bunnicula is a book that I had heard of many years ago (published in 1979) but had never had an interest in reading. I thought this book was going to be much too hokey and cartoonish.

I was wrong.

Hatchet - Nice Job

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Hatchet is part of Gary Paulsen's series called Brian's Saga, though almost nobody talks about anything but Hatchet.

The photo you usually see for this book is shown at the right.

It's a ridiculous picture.

The picture below is the one that was on the cover of the copy that I actually read.

It's a little better.

That's pretty much the worst thing I have to say about this book.

Boys vs Girls: Battle of the Ages?

From the author of Shiloh, Phyllis Naylor, comes the Boy/Girl Battle Series, a collection of 12 books about a family of boys and a family of girls who live in the same neighborhood and who just can't get along with each other.

In the first book, The Boys Start the War, we learn that the 4 Hatford brothers - Jake, Josh (twins, but that doesn't matter much), Wally, and Peter - are upset because their best friends have just moved out of state to Ohio.

In their place arrives the Malloy family who have 3 girls - Caroline, Beth, and Eddie (Edith). Their father has taken a job, that may only last a year (and it does), it the small town of Buckman, West Virginia.

Trouble ensues.

Ember: Worth Remembering Ember?

I forgot to take a pic of book 1

The Book of Ember series is an easy and interesting read. I'm just not sure whom it was written for.

Here's the problem.

The story starts out mysteriously which leads you to want to keep reading, but the whole thing is about the "post-Disaster" time on Earth. Most people would call this post-apocalyptic. So it sounds like there has been the equivalent of a nuclear holocaust about 100 years ago, and this story is about the survivors.