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Hello and welcome! My name is Emma and I've been a bookseller for over a decade. I also write fantasy under the name E. M. Epps. This blog features my Two-Paragraph Book Reviews. One paragraph from me. One from the book. Here's why I keep it short.

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Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey (Picture Puffin Books)

Review: “Fireboat” by Maira Kalman

Image Emma 20 June 2010

 

Thumbs up for Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman. Children’s nonfiction.

The true story of a fireboat, and its heroic return from retirement. This book made me cry.

“The piers were the places where ships and trains brought all manner of merchandise to be sold in the city. Like wood and cotton and bananas and bubble gum and EVERYTHING.”


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