Wreaths with How-to-Tutorials by Laura Dowling

The book "Wreaths With How-To Tutorials" by Laura Dowling is about using natural ingredients to make decorations for your house. It showed how to make garlands and foliages out of fruits, vegetables, leaves, and flowers. It had many different examples and visuals of decorating without plastic and being self-conscious of the environment. It indicated how even when you use natural ingredients how beautiful the decorations will turn out to be.

The book "Wreaths With How-To Tutorials" by Laura Dowling is a great book for people who like doing DIY projects and also want to reduce their plastic use. This was great for me because Christmas is not so far away and using like flowers and leaves to decorate your house would be great because during Christmas people use a lot of plastic to decorate their homes. It also opened my eyes to how beautiful could the products that nature provides us with.

Reviewed by GH, Grade 8

Glendale Central Library

2018 Christmas with Southern Living

The book "Christmas 2018" by Southern Living is a great book for new Christmas decorations and recipes. It showed many modern ways of switching up your old recipes and decorations. It had many tips and tricks of how to Diy your Christmas decorations, for example making decorations out of appliances that you already have in your home. Many different ways of making old recipes into new for example making a using different seasoning to roast your chicken. Great book for wanting a change in your Chrismas decorations and recipes.

The book "Christmas 2018" by Southern Living was one of the best cookbooks I've ever read. I love Christmas. This was very helpful for having new dishes at your Christmas dinner to share with friends and family. One of the best recipes in the book was the brown butter-roasted branzino because my family doesn't eat red meat. It also gave me some decorations ideas like how to decorate your Christmas table, how to fold the napkins and have a theme for the table decorations.

Reviewed by GH, Grade 8

Glendale Central Library

Affordable Interior Design by Betsy Helmuth

The book "Affordable Interior Design High-End Tips For Any Budget" by Besty Helmuth is about showing how you can design a house under a budget. It shows many beautiful designs of houses which don't need a lot of money to achieve. It is a great book for people who are moving out but don't have a lot of money to personalize their new home. Also great for people who are beginners and are looking forward to making their free time activity their career.

The book "Affordable Interior Design High-End Tips For Any Budget" by Betsy Helmuth was a wonderful book for me because my family and I are currently thinking about buying a house and it was a great inspiration for how I should design my bedroom by not spending too much money. It gave many tips and tricks, for example how to renew old furniture. It showed many great examples of making a boring place look great by personalization.

Reviewed by GH, Grade 8
Glendale Central Library