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Penelope and Beatrice
A girl, her bear, and a library card
A new children's book series featuring Penelope, her teddy bear Beatrice, and their adventures solving problems with a library card.
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The Goldfish of Blackwater Manor
There are a few myths we should clear up.
The three second memory. A charming idea, if one must live inside a glass bowl without space to turn around a short memory would be sanity saving. Perhaps the pervasiveness of this myth stems from our own wishes to leave our mistakes in the past with a quickness.
I can assure you Bob has no such constraints upon his memory. Though he does have a very different life than the average goldfish. Somewhere in the synapses and brain matter s the memory of the shadow of mammoths darkening his particularly favorite spot in the pond. #kidlit #childrensbook #fantasyart