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Title: Five Senses
Review: This book is a charming story about a bear who smells Christmas coming. I am impressed that the author came up with so many smells to include. Both my girls (ages 18 mos and 3) enjoy listening to this book and sniffing the scents. Not only does the book include a variety of smells, but it incorporates the smells in the scenes of Christmas and the sounds of Christmas. It seems to enhance the traditions of Christmas. A drawback to the book is that it has quickly lost its smells or maybe we have simply sniffed the smells all out too quickly. Another drawback, like most children's books today, the author uses passive, lazy verbs when more vivid verbs could have been used, such as the author's writing "had" instead of "ate" or "gobbled". Overall, The Sweet Smell of Christmas is a worth-purchasing book.
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