A group of young wildflowers on skateboards and scooters zoom around the pages of Poppy, Buttercup, Bluebell, and Dandy by Fiona Woodcock. They leave seeds all over to create color and life where there was only gray before. Poppy, Buttercup, Bluebell, and Dandy (the names of our heroines) is a straight forward story about conservation and making your world beautiful by going out and doing instead of just standing by. The watercolor-like illustrations keep with the lightheartedness of the text. This allows the deeper meaning […]
Swimming with Sharks
One word: WOW. Okay, two more words: Wow! Wow! This book is interesting for two main reasons, it brings science to the public without getting too technical and it is giving you a look at a woman (Eugenie Clark) who did not just do well in a “man’s world” but excelled. The afterwards tells of Clark in more detail. Such as, yes, you realize right off when you see “woman” and “science” you know she will face discrimination. As soon as you see when she […]
Mama Africa!
I have enjoyed the few things I have read by Kathryn Erskine. And Mama Africa does not disappoint either. Who was Miriam Makeba? Probably few people can answer that. I know I could not before reading Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song. She was a singer who was like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald and sang protest songs. She was a woman like Nelson Mandela and helped lead her people to freedom. She was a fighter. She was an activist. She […]
The Butterfly Dance
Caterpillars Dotty and Stripe do everything together. They eat, sleep and play in all the ways caterpillars do! That is until the day Stripe is very tired and goes into a special sleep and he weaves his cocoon. After a while, Dotty does the same thing. After emerging, they notice that things have changed and not just because they are butterflies now. They look nothing alike (one has stripes and one dots), they notice that they do not eat the same foods and none of […]
A Tale of Two Bears and Wolf
If Little House on the Prarie, Little Red Riding Hood and a folktale meet and created a book, Willa and the Bear by Philomena O’Neill would be the result. Have you ever read a book and thought, “Do I like this?” Bear and Wolf by Daniel Salmieri is that book. These two books have nothing in common other than there are bears in them. And both have animals that take on human feelings, thoughts and actions. A bear would not return your lost doll, […]
Little Sid
I think I would have liked this better with a less contemporary take on the subject or if it was a more realistic presentation. The story is too “how a kid and their family is today” with the language and actions of the characters. Obviously meant to grab a young reader, for the adult it could be a distraction to the story of Siddhartha. While I do not know for sure he did not have stuffed animals, somehow, I do not think he would have […]
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