Category Archives: Fiction

This Little Hamster – Review

This Little Hamster

This Little Hamster, by Kass Reich – Orca Book Publishers

 

If you’re looking for an engaging book for children up to age 3, This Little Hamster is it!  Reich moves from counting to colors in this follow-up to Hamsters Holding Hands. Set against pale backdrops that correspond to 10 colors, the smiley, dumplinglike hamsters proudly display objects in their favorite hues (“These little hamsters love everything red/ They have a hat, a cherry and a spool of thread”). Once again, the hamsters’ abundant enthusiasm and Reich’s humorous penchant for unexpected props (the green-obsessed hamster has “a prize-winning pepper and a bubble machine”) are a winning combination.

 

NOTE:  this review is taken from http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-45980-410-4

 

Hamsters Holding Hands

Hamsters Holding Hands, by Kass Reich – Orca Book Publishers-9781459801233 $9.95 BdHamsters Holding Hands

Hamsters Holding Hands is an engaging, fun board book targeted toward very young learners. Each page features a different number of playful hamsters accompanied by rhyming text. The illustrations are bright and graphic with lots of humorous details to keep both child and adult engaged.  A counting book that takes readers from one to ten, Hamsters Holding Hands is a delight to share with any young child.

The Land of Dreams

The Land of Dreams

The Land of Dreams – University of Minnesota Press. Vidar Sundstol, Translated by Tiina Nunnally.
9780816689408 $24.95 cloth/jacket. Winner of the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel of the year-the first novel in the internationally best-selling Minnesota Trilogy.

The Land of Dreams is the chilling first installment in Sundstol’s critically acclaimed Minnesota Trilogy set on the rugged north shore of Lake Superior. Lance Hansen, a U.S. Forest Service officer, quiet routines are shattered one morning when he comes upon a Norwegian tourist brutally murdered near a stone cross on the shore of Lake Superior. Another Norwegian man is nearby, covered in blood and staring out across the lake, he can only utter one word kjaerlighet. Love. This is a riveting and well researched portrait of an extraordinary landscape and hidden traumas and paths of silence that trouble history, and a haunting study in guilt and the bonds of blood.