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Book Review by Haley Bono The Skunk Who Couldn’t Smell By Sarah McCormick is all about accepting differences. Smellarella one day realizes …

Book Review by Kathy Porter David Shannon wrote and illustrated an autobiographical picture book about his childhood. It’s hilarious and at the …

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Spin a Yarn

spin (somebody) a ˈyarn/ˈtale tell somebody a story, usually a long one, which is often not true: She came an hour late and spun him a yarn about her car breaking down.

Sailors used to spin yarns (long threads) to make ropes. They were also famous for telling unlikely stories of their adventures, which is perhaps the origin of the idiom.

-Freedictionary.com

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