Who’s Afraid of Spiders?

I’m Trying To Love Spiders By Bethany Barton   Something tells me that Bethany Barton has a whole lot of love in her heart for many things – even the most loathsome, that leave some of us screaming into the night, searching for safety or a swatter. In her latest picture book, “I’m Trying to…

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Liz’s Summer Reading Pick

This Monster Needs a Haircut by Bethany Barton Do you have a child who balks at barbershops, cringes at clippers and generally howls pre-haircut? Well I have the book for you. Every parent has gone through that rite of passage-the first haircut. It can be preceded by foot dragging, multiple and myriad excuses, tantrums, tears…

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The Noblest of Virtues: PATIENCE!

This Monster Cannot Wait! By Bethany Barton   Have you followed Ms. Barton’s previous book in which her adventurous monster, like most small boys, was not jumping up and down about a haircut? Things get pretty gruesome until a truce is negotiated and the hair-raising foray is “snipped” in the bud! Well, young readers and…

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