Dealing with Life (a beautiful, changing, not easy thing) this author/illustrator team have created a lovely work that is truly poetic. Author Cynthia Rylant and Brendan Wenzel (illustrator) have created a home run out of the park with Life. While there is a lot of heartache to Life they show that there is a lot of good, too. The illustrations accent and compliment the text without over powering them. After reading, and the ever bookseller, my brain did its check list: Do I like this? […]
Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship
Rescue hears that he might not be a good seeing eye dog. That devastates him as he comes from a long line of Seeing Eye Dogs. However, what Rescue realizes he is good at makes him important to a special young girl. And therefore, able to continue in the distinguished line of service dogs. Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship is based loosely on the events of Jessica Kensky’s experiences as being a double amputee due to the Boston Bombing. Told from the point of […]
Salamander Sky
Salamander Sky features a mother and daughter who are waiting for the perfect night to do a most special act. They are waiting to help the salamanders cross the busy road in their area. Due to the low numbers, these creatures (who are very important to the ecosystem) need a little help to literally, get to the other side of the road. In a fiction format (with factual pieces of information sprinkled throughout) you see how every spring in the eastern regions of the United […]
If I Had a Horse
It is not often that a three (almost four) year old recommends a book to me. Okay, technically his mother did, but she said to me that her son enjoys this book. In fact, asks for it by name: “The horse book, Mama!” (Okay, not exactly by name…) All joking aside, I must agree that young Master F has good tastes in illustrations. Unfortunately, the text, does not speak to me the same way it must have to him. However, as many books that do […]
Fables from the Stables
While putting away new reader copies, I tripped over this title (literally, I dropped it and then stepped on it….) called Hendrix the Rocking Horse. (Hendrix…rock…rocking horse…. get it?) I was a little cautious about it. The goofy illustrations of a horse (is that underwear on its head?) rocking out on stage was enough to give me pause. I then noticed Murray the Race Horse. Still the wonderfully goofy cover, but far more tame and traditional sounding. I wrong. I read Hendrix first, not realizing […]
A Season of Flowers
Amazon’s description of a Season of Flowers by Michael Garland starts off with the listing of the different flowers (Snowdrops and crocuses yield to tulips…) brings out the song “A few of my favorite things” loudly in my minds ear. The book itself brings out the inner artist eye. As well as the inner poet. And while this book many not become one of my favorite things, it is well up there in the “I like this a lot” category. From Spring to Summer to […]
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