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Not sure what to do with this. I think kids will like the book and the format. There are graphical wordless vignettes interspersed with chapters. Starting with darling sisters, Hope and Honey who love and care for each other we move swiftly to a fateful road trip with their despicable parents who hate children - yes it begs the question...- when Honey is summarily pitched from the car for her happy laughter. Left in a cloud of dust Honey's story is taken up graphically.
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Have just started this, and so far in terms of the illustrations it reminds me a lot of Hugo Cabret (which is a good thing). In this story, Hope is separated from her little sister, Honey. Actually, not separated as much as torn from. Honey misbehaves (by laughing), and their parents pull the car over to the side of the road and order her out. Then they just drive away, and tell Hope to forget her little sister. Hope can't do that however, and manages to cope with her loneliness only by escaping
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Different kind of fantasy story where a bank stored all the memories. Hope and her sister, Honey, have the worst parents in the world. There is no laughing, crying, or anything! When Honey forgets one day and laughs in the car, her father stops the car and drops her off on the side of the road. He tells Honey to forget her. Honey is quickly picked up by a group of kids, later to be revealed as the Clean Slate Gang. Hope is eventually called to the WWMB to explain why her memory "deposits" have g
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Hope and Honey were inseparable sisters, that is until their parents got annoyed with Honey and left her on the side of the road one afternoon. Hope is horrified and can't stop thinking about her sister and what happened to her. She retreats to her cot in the garage and spends most of her time sleeping until one night a man from a delivery company comes to pick her up and bring her to WWMB - World Wide Memory Bank, the place where they store memories.
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I was so excited about this book...it's really nice looking. An unusual trim size with dream-sequence illustrations throughout, but I was really disappointed. It's the story of a girl named Hope with horrendously negligent parents who cast out her little sister for laughing. Hope misses her sister, Honey, terribly, and as a result of her prolific dreaming, is called by The Memory Bank, a Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory-like place where memories and dreams are stored, hoping for the key to her si
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Lemony Snickett and Roald Dahl collide with Brian Selznick in this unusual story of a sister's refusal to forget about the baby sister her parents abandon. Carolyn Coman's text is full of her signature sly humor, and Rob Shepperson's illustrations (a combination of finished pictures and unfinalized sketch art in the ARC) are beautifully expressive, but sadly, I think the target audience is going to be lost. What worked so well in Hugo Cabret with the marriage of text and graphics just doesn't fl
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There are a lot of things to like about this book. The illustrations are fun and generous in their frequency, making this a fast-moving but satisfying read for young readers. There is a surreal, dream-like quality to the book that is appealing, somewhere at the intersection of Roald Dahl and Kate DiCamillo. Unfortunately, like most dreams, it doesn’t seem to quite come together or make complete sense once you are finished with it.
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The premise of this book is very thin. In fact, I could hardly make sense of it. I ended up skimming through it, and I liked the artwork, but nice pictures don't make an otherwise vapid chapter book fly.
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Apr 28, 2010
Rachel
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