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Someday
Alison McGhee
Atheneum, 2007
Beautiful and simple
I bought this book on a whim while purchasing another book for my son. I am so glad that I did! I could barely finish reading, I was crying so much. My son was born a preemie at 24 weeks, and for the longest time, we didn't know if he would have a 'someday'. The only ...
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All Rivers Flow to the Sea
Alison Mcghee
Candlewick, 2005
YOU CANNOT GO WRONG WITH ALISON McGHEE
ALL RIVERS FLOW TO THE SEA
Being a fan of Ms. McGhee's, I am very slowly working my way through her writing only because I don't want to run out of her wonderful books. She is amazing!
This book is listed as a TEEN book. Adults, have at it. This is one heck ...
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Little Boy
Alison McGhee
Atheneum, 2008
Baby gift
I purchased this title on a whim when a very dear friend of mine and his wife had their first child, a little boy. It just seemed right. I wasn't disappointed. It's a delightful story about a "little boy" and what's important to him. Of all his toys--the big ...
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Julia Gillian (and The Art Of Knowing) (Julia Gillian)
Alison Mcghee
Scholastic Press, 2008
Curiosity and Worry
All summer, almost-fifth-grader Julia Gillian tries her hardest to avoid reading a book about a boy and his dog because she assumes it will have a unhappy ending. After all, it seems as though dogs don't often survive those stories - Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern ...
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Rainlight
Alison McGhee
Picador, 2001
poignant and delicate ... a sure winner
A tragic accident brings out musings from 4 different characters and reveals secrets between each other that some goes a long way.
This book is beautifully written. It's poignant, delicate, touching ... reading it feels like having a soft velvety whisper of air on ...
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Countdown to Kindergarten
Alison McGhee
Voyager Books, 2006
enjoyable for kids and adults
Other reviewers have discussed the content of the book, so I won't go into more detail on the storyline, but what I like best about the book is the ending: once the little girl actually gets to school, she and her classmates realize after conferring together that none ...
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A Very Brave Witch
Alison McGhee
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2006
Just a great, great book for kids
I bought 10 of them and gave them to all the nieces and nephews for the Holidays. The story is cute, the illustrations are amazing. Bliss packs a lot of funny goodies into the backgrounds for parents as well. Its a real fun read, and the kids loved it cause there is so ...
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Shadow Baby (Today Show Book Club #14)
Alison McGhee
Picador, 2003
Beautifully written--provoked me to both laughter and tears
This book captivated me almost immediately and I devoured it in one sitting. I found the author's development of Clara's quirky personality to be realistic and amusing, as she reminded me greatly of myself at that age--a voracious reader, imaginative storyteller, ...
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Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers
Borealis Books, 2008
Be Glad for Riding Shotgun's Difference
Women are from Venus. Women's Intuition. The Feminine Mystique. Whatever you want to call it, women have a different kind of sensitivity and power from their Y-chromosomed counterparts, and that perception may be the most finely tuned with regard to one's mother.
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Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth
Alison McGhee
Voyager Books, 2008
As hip as you wanna be
There's an odd complaint that sometimes cycles through the parent circles of this great American country. If a children's picture book is filled with just too many injokes and gags for the parents to get (and not their kids) then that book is immediately given the ...
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Falling Boy: A Novel
Alison McGhee
Picador, 2007
a beautiful novel filled with sadness and wonder
In Falling Boy, Joseph works in a bakery in Minneapolis. He is sixteen years old and he is confined to a wheelchair, but more than that he is often confined within his own mind. He speaks some, but not often and not at length and certainly not about the reason why he ...
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Bye-bye, Crib
Alison McGhee
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2008
There it is. Over there. The big bed... Am I ready? #1 New York Times best-selling author Alison McGhee tells the tale of a child's first rite of passage - from the crib to the big bed. Ross MacDonald's glowing illustrations will comfort, amuse, and inspire toddlers and even their parents as they take this first big step together.
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Was It Beautiful?: A Novel
Alison Mcghee
Three Rivers Press, 2004
absolutely perfect
WAS IT BEAUTIFUL? is the story of William T. Jones' unbearable grief at the loss of his son, and how the people in his small town watch over him to help keep him from slipping into a gaping hole of madness. Though the story that unravels here is profoundly sad, the ...
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Um Dia... (Faixa etária: a partir dos 8 anos)
Alison McGhee, Peter H. Reynolds
Editorial Presença, 2008
Um Dia... é um livro que fala daquilo que é essencial: a vida, o amor e o tempo que passa. Um clássico para todas as idades...
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Snap (Unabridged)
Alison Alison McGhee
audible.com
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