BookShorts BiblioBlog: DIARY OF A FLY pays respect to the tiny ones, even if they are a little icky

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Thursday, December 27, 2007

DIARY OF A FLY pays respect to the tiny ones, even if they are a little icky

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www.movingstories.tv - Childrens books are books for which I have a huge respect, but more experience consuming as a young reader than critiquing as a member of the adult reading posse. So Ill quote Susan Moorhead of the New Rochelle Public Library in New York, writing a starred review in the School Library Journal when she reports, Fans of Diary of a Spider and Diary of a Worm will be thrilled with the latest mix of whimsy and scientific fact in DIARY OF A FLY (all titles published by HarperCollins), written by New York Times bestselling author Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Harry Bliss.