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    Hay Day

    Hay Day

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    Best. Farm. Ever. Welcome to Hay Day, the most popular farming game on mobiles and tablets, number...

    Toddler Counting 123

    Toddler Counting 123

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    "simple and well executed with straightforward menus and good graphics." -- The New York Times ...

    Dr. Panda Mailman

    Dr. Panda Mailman

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    **Winner of a Parents' Choice Gold Award for 2015!** Be a mailman and deliver mail as you explore a...

Assassin's Creed: Origins
Assassin's Creed: Origins
2017 | Action/Adventure
Beautiful visuals (1 more)
Engaging story
This may actually beat AC: Syndicate for my second favorite Assassin's Creed game, the first being AC: Brotherhood.

The visuals are beautiful, in both day and night.



As per usual, I'm far more interested in exploring the world and doing side quests than running through the main story, but when I do, I get sucked right in: I need to know what happens next... until I get the itch to go exploring again or another side quest catches my eye.


I like the inclusion of taming certain animals and having them be additional dps when fighting. It's really cool knowing that a huge lion has your back when you're taking out a group of bandits. Though I am disappointed that they don't seem to follow you into caves or are still waiting outside when you emerge from clearing out a bandit infestation.


I'm very impressed at the schedule of extra quests and events such as fighting various gods like Anubis and Sobek, as well as the upcoming history to lay out the groundwork for the brotherhood in an expansion next year.


All of these are going to keep me very entertained for quite a while.
  
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Vanita Oelschlager | 2009 | Children
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Hilarious And Beautifully Illustrated
This is a wonderful way to teach children about idioms. Every page has an idiom not only listed but also beautifully illustrated and giving its literal meaning. The illustrations are hilarious and sweet, especially as they all feature birds or animals. My favourites were ‘Bring home the bacon,’ ‘No spring chicken’ and ‘Let the cat out of the bag.’

The meaning of the idiom, along with an example of its usage in a sentence, is written at the bottom of each page, inverted, and in minute lettering, so that it can be referred to only when you really try to read it. Unfortunately, the writing was so small that I had problems reading it at all.

“Birds Of A Feather” concludes with an explanation of how a particular idiom originated, and encourages readers to find the origins of other idioms, as the words that are used in an idiom are generally not meant literally, however, neither are they a random group of words thrown together.

{Thank you to NetGalley, VanitaBooks LLC and the author, for a free copy and for giving me the opportunity to provide an honest review.}