Same Inside Different Outside Readers Favorite Review

BOOK REVIEW Four Star Review

Reviewed by Barbara Fanson for Readers’ Favorite

Author Deborah Hunt invites us into a kindergarten classroom where Dr. Shaw is presenting a slideshow about the inside of a person. He asks the children for the names of organs that are found inside each person. Same Inside, Different Outside is an educational lesson disguised as a story. Although we look different on the outside—with different colored hair, eyes, and skin—we all look similar on the inside. Not only does Dr. Shaw get the children to name the organs, but he also explains what each one does. Without realizing it, children will be learning about the organs in their bodies, but also a subtle lesson about humanity: we are all the same on the inside. At the end, the students wave good-bye to us.

Children will learn about the purpose of an x-ray screen and see it in action in Same Inside, Different Outside. Illustrator Xavier Pom takes us into the classroom and sets the scene for the book. The artwork accurately demonstrates the storyline. The illustration on page 24 has a lot of emotion and shows us how Emma is afraid and uncomfortable. But Dr. Shaw helps her face her fears and understand that skeletons are not scary. Author Deborah Hunt has created a special book that will educate children—without them realizing it. Dr. Shaw explains how bones are like a superhero—they help hold us up straight. Children and their parents will find the book interesting. Same Inside, Different Outside reminds us that we may have different colored hair and eyes, but we’re same on the inside.

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The One Eyed Pug Readers Favorite Review

BOOK REVIEW Five Star Review

Reviewed by Barbara Fanson for Readers’ Favorite

The One Eyed Pug is an interesting story of a pug that’s moving to New York with her human mommy, Julie. Author Deborah Hunt has created an interesting story filled with emotions. Yes, moving to a new city can be exciting, but it means saying good-bye to your friends. The Going Away Party was fun—but sad. Travel with the little pug on her first airplane ride. What dog wouldn’t want a new home with a large yard and two children to play with? And because Julie was a nanny, the little pug went with Julie wherever she went. What a wonderful life for a dog. The little pug should have been excited when her family came to visit her at her new place, but they took her home with them. Why did they take the little pug away from her human mommy, Julie? Her new mommy, Helen, told her that Julie couldn’t look after her anymore. The sad little pug misses Julie and wants to go home. Her new family goes off to work or school and leaves the little pug alone all day.

The black and white line illustrations are very well done and are accurate representations of the storyline. The drawing on page 16 would make a great coloring page at an author event. The One Eyed Pug is a story with a mix of happiness, sadness, adventure, and scary bits. Author Deborah Hunt has created a wonderful, easy-to-read chapter book that will appeal to both children and their parents. The heart-warming story has all the elements and emotion of a good book that children will want to read again. The story is expressed from the point of the little pug … how happy she feels when face chatting with her real family of pugs or how annoying it is to have a new, untrained puppy in the house. The little pug becomes a superhero and saves Chewy, the wild puppy, from enemies. Throughout the whole book, readers will be wondering what the book title The One Eyed Pug means, but it won’t be until the plot twist at the end of the book that they find out the meaning. What a wonderful end to the story of Lola, the little pug.

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Same Inside Different Outside

Same Inside Different Outside
WaldorfPublishing Concepts / Body, JUVENILE, Non Fiction
by Deborah Hunt
Today is a very exciting day for Emma’s kindergarten class. Emma, Robert, and the rest of the students don’t understand how they can all look so different on the outside, but look very similar on the inside. So Dr. Shaw is coming to visit, and she’s bringing Mr. Bones, who is a real life-size skeleton. Mr. Bones is going to help Dr. Shaw teach her lesson about the human body. Dr. Shaw has also brought a cool body screening machine with her so the children can see what their insides look like.coverfixedwithauthor

Emma is excited when Dr. Shaw shows the class some really cool pictures about the human body on a big screen, but she’s also nervous because she’s afraid of skeletons. And the big machine in the front of the room looks just as scary. You can learn about the human body, and Emma and her classmates when you read the “Same Inside Different Outside”.

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The One Eyed Pug

“The One Eyed Pug”
by Deborah Hunt

Juvenile

ISBN: 978-1-945175-78-7

The One-Eyed Pug is based on a true story. Children and adults will fall in love with the lovely little pug, and eventually come to love the incorrigible Chewy, too!

In this story, a little pug keeps hoping she will find her forever home but every time she thinks she has found it she has to move, or is adopted by a new family. Finally, she is adopted by the Barker family and believes she has finally found her forever home. Everything is perfect until the terrible horrible thing happens; a new puppy named Chewy comes to live with the family and makes the little pug’s life miserable. Then one day when the two puppies are playing and finally getting along Chewy accidently scratches the pug’s eye and she has to go to the hospital. What will happen the little pug? What will happen to Chewy? You will find out when you read this truly intriguing tale.

Release Date: August 15, 2017

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Same Inside Different Outside
WaldorfPublishing Concepts / Body, JUVENILE, Non Fiction
by Deborah Hunt
Today is a very exciting day for Emma’s kindergarten class. Emma, Robert, and the rest of the students don’t understand how they can all look so different on the outside, but look very similar on the inside. So Dr. Shaw is coming to visit, and she’s bringing Mr. Bones, who is a real life-size skeleton. Mr. Bones is going to help Dr. Shaw teach her lesson about the human body. Dr. Shaw has also brought a cool body screening machine with her so the children can see what their insides look like.coverfixedwithauthor

Emma is excited when Dr. Shaw shows the class some really cool pictures about the human body on a big screen, but she’s also nervous because she’s afraid of skeletons. And the big machine in the front of the room looks just as scary. You can learn about the human body, and Emma and her classmates when you read the “Same Inside Different Outside”.

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