It was a fun book with the same concept as the holiday. The characters were fun and lovable. I recommend.

set a the famous 42nd St library. A murder occurs and one of the librarians helps solve the case.

I took this book out because of the title, but, in fact, there was very little to do with a library. The story centers around a boy who goes into library to look up the answer to a question that occurs to him. Once inside the library, he meets strange people and winds up in a strange unpleasant place. The book seems to suggest that all of this happens because he has trouble saying no to people, but that is never further explored. And upon his return home, supposedly after at least several days or weeks have passed, there is no reaction to his return from his mom. This may be better as a young adult read.

Fun colors (and shades) to learn, tabs to pull, familiar objects to point to (and eventually name), we highly recommend this book. Loved it as a board book in late infancy and well into the toddler years.

Great cast of characters and mystery

Suspense full.

Nice little book illustrating and explaining different ways to make and maintain friendships. Started some good conversations with my almost 5 year old

In my opinion, this was a terrible book and after I finished it and saw that it was a book of some acclaim, I was shocked. The writing is very stiff though that may be because it is told by the central character who comes across as a socially and psychologically disturbed person. The way I read it, his behaviors and thoughts are supposed to be considered normal but come across very damaged. He doesn’t care if he loses his job, gets married or not, or even goes to jail. I just could not get past the disturbed behavior in this book.

Great!

I have come to really enjoy Henry’s books when I need a lighter read that still has some real substance. This was truly a good book about two people who love each other but can’t get out of their own way to be together. My only problem was that, as a non-linear novel, both the current events and past events both contained dialogue, which, since I did it as an audio book, I felt made it harder to keep track of the time frame than if only the current time has the dialogue.