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About BlackRaven

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I am a Professional Book Pusher. Obviously then, reading is a passion, but so is writing and alligator wrestling. My first year participating was 2018 and 2022 will see me reading, writing, and hugging my nephews in-between chocolate!

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Let Music Ring!

Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song by Gary Golio Chris Barton

January 31, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Let Music Ring! Is there a rating higher than five? I do not usually get this excited over a book. In the end this is just a really good book. However, the fact they talk about lynching in a children’s book (though tastefully done, if such a thing is possible) is a real eye-opener for how far books have come. This is what makes this book stand out. It is not shying away from the issue of race, discrimination and the results of that. It […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History Tagged With: Charlotte Riley-Webb, Chris Barton, Gary Golio, Louis Thomas

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:17 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History · Tags: Charlotte Riley-Webb, Chris Barton, Gary Golio, Louis Thomas ·
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Chinese New Year

Home for Chinese New Year by Wei Jie

January 29, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Or Happy New Year. Friday February 16, 2018 the Year of the Dog begins. Many traditions surround this holiday. One of my personal ones is to read books about the Chinese New Year. Two new (to me) books, are Ruby’s Chinese New Year by Vickie Lee and Joey Chou and Home for Chinese New Year: A Story Told in English and Chinese by Wei Jie and Xu Can. Ruby’s Chinese New Year hints at Little Red Riding Hood and tells the […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: Children, holidays, Joey Chou, Vickie Lee, Wei Jie, Xu Can

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:15 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: Children, holidays, Joey Chou, Vickie Lee, Wei Jie, Xu Can ·
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What Can I Be?

What Can I Be? by Ann Rand

January 24, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

What Can I Be? asks Ann Rand and illustrator Ingrid F. King.  Everyday shapes (squares, triangles, circles, etc.) colors and lines are presented to you, the reader, and Rand offers possibilities for what they could become. Author and illustrator also encourage their readers to use their imagination to conjure other formations that these simple, everyday things could be. A green triangle could be a tent, Christmas tree, a kite, a sail of a boat or all of the above. The only limitation is what the […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: Ann Rand, Ingrid Fiksdahl King

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:13 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: Ann Rand, Ingrid Fiksdahl King ·
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Hedgehogs, Robins and One of a Kind

A Round of Robins by Kate Hesterman

January 17, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Picture books are a fun way to get your children, grandchildren or students into reading by reading to them. Once they get older, these books can become a “first read” portal for them. I still remember the books my family read to me, and what I read to my sister and nephews (and I hope they remember as fondly as I do Moo, Baa, Laa Laa La and my edits of a not-for-their-age-group read I was reading aloud to them….) Three books coming out in […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: Chris Gorman, Jen Betton, Katie Hesterman, Sergio Ruzzier

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:12 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: Chris Gorman, Jen Betton, Katie Hesterman, Sergio Ruzzier ·
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OMG… Is He Also a Witch?!

OMG... Is He Also a Witch?! by Talia Aikens-Nunez

January 16, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

OMG… Is He Also a Witch?! is the third in the OMG series by Talia Aikens-Nunez. I’m choosing to start with this book because the first two have not been read by this reviewer. While the adult reader can pick up the “back story” most readers need to start with book one. The story has been done before: Girl finds out she’s a witch. Has a few friends who know of her secret. Everyone keeps it a secret from her parents/the adults. The “bad guys” […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: Alicja Gil, Talia Aikens-Nunez

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:9 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: Alicja Gil, Talia Aikens-Nunez ·
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Bramble and Maggie: Snow Day

Bramble and Maggie: Snow Day by Jessie Haas

January 16, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The main review is for Bramble and Maggie: Snow Day, yet I will plug all books of Jessie Haas still in print. Mostly these are the Bramble and Maggie series. Haas loves horses. How do I know? Most of her books feature a horse in them, even the one she did for the American Girl series. As well as almost every time she and her husband stop by the bookstore I work at, they would stop in and say “Hi” and we would talk horses. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: Alison Friend, horses, Jessie Haas

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:8 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: Alison Friend, horses, Jessie Haas ·
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