Kaleidoscope
by Gail Bowen
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Critic Rating
68%
Critic Reviews: 12
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56%
Reader Ratings: 4
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Synopsis
This inventive board book combines a fold-out rotating kaleidoscope lens with vibrant illustrations. Fun and engaging rhymes compliment each die-cut page.Blissful moments, wishing hoping, Swiftly turning, Kaleidoscoping! Turn the spinning 2-inch kaleidoscope lens and watch each magical page transform before your eyes! Award-winning artist Salina Yoon invites readers on an unforgettable poetic journey filled with colorful surprises. Deceptively simple and thoughtfully layered, Kaleidoscope will encourage readers to see the world through a different lens.
About Gail Bowen
- All Critics: 12
- Positive: 9
- Negative: 3
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Kirkus Reviews | 1 Apr 2012
As usual in Joanne’s world...vicissitudes of the plot are less memorable than the celebrations of ongoing life: two weddings, a child birth, several parties and a great deal of civilized but enthusiastic connubial sex.
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Publishers Weekly | 27 Feb 2012
Complicated family difficulties overshadow the crime solving...The slow pace and less than satisfying ending make this one of the weaker installments.
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Mysteries and More from Saskatchean | 29 May 2012
With great skill Gail brings together the threads of Joanne’s family, marriage, friends and mystery. I enjoyed the mystery but I loved the continuing development of Joanne’s life.
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Pop Goes Fiction | 31 Mar 2012
Kaliedoscope is the latest book in the long-running Joanne Kilbourn series and it's always a pleasure to catch up with Joanne and her family.
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The Spec.com | 28 Apr 2012
It’s as fresh and compelling as the first one...When that happens you know you’ve read an author who knows how to write.
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National Post | 11 May 2012
...she shines best, as she has in the past, when Joanne is in the thick of the small dramas that affect her and those she loves best, her husband and children.
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IFp | 12 May 2012
...Joanne remains set not only on sorting out some frightening crimes, but on acknowledging her good fortune along with her part, however minor, in her community's complicated injustices.
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ReviewingtheEvidence.com | 30 Apr 2012
The solution to the various crimes that punctuate this novel takes second place to the moral reflection...In short, Gail Bowen has done better, much better, in the past.
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The Globe and Mail | 18 May 2012
...in her first marriage and years ago, Joanne was a committed socialist. This book brings her back to her conscience and her past, and Bowen does it all with panache.
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Pages and Patches | 11 Jun 2012
Sure, for marketing sake, Kaleidoscope is a mystery – a good one too. But more so, Bowen is a pundit and socially conscious artist.
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Mystery Maven Canada | 16 Jun 2012
I can unequivocally say that Kaleidoscope, book #13 in the Joanne Kilbourn series, is every bit as excellent as you’d expect!
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The Chronicle Herald | 24 Jun 2012
Bowen offers up a complex, gritty tale, one in which Kilbourn’s rich family life helps soften some of the book’s harder edges.
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