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One large pizza, extra scorpions

 How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?: Wild Facts about Animals and the Scientists Who Study Them by Brooke Barker

September 22, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

How Do Meerkats Order Pizza? I think they would call up their favorite joint and say, “A large cheese and scorpion pie please. And hold the eagle feathers.” (Or something like that.)  That is of course, if they ate pizza. They do eat scorpions though, and in How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?: Wild Facts about Animals and the Scientists Who Study Them we learn some amazing and fantastic facts about animals. Some of which we might not usually see in a book, so that is very cool. And even […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: animals, Brooke Barker, nature, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:689 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: animals, Brooke Barker, nature, Social Themes ·
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And I thought my dad had some CRAZY recipes

Old Clothes for Dinner?! by Nathalie Alonso

September 15, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Magaly loves her grandmother (newly living with her family) from Cuba. She loves her grandmother’s Cuban dishes. She loves speaking Spanish with her grandmother. But when she asks her grandmother what is for dinner one day, she gets the answer of “ropa vieja.” Which she understands to mean (in her decent, but second language, Spanish) Old Clothes for Dinner?! And since she cannot find her favorite sweater, nor her brother his favorite striped shirt (loved and worn so much there are holes in them) well, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction Tagged With: Cuba, family, grandmothers, Multigenerational, Natalia Rojas Castro, Nathalie Alonso, United States - Hispanic & Latino

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:660 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction · Tags: Cuba, family, grandmothers, Multigenerational, Natalia Rojas Castro, Nathalie Alonso, United States - Hispanic & Latino ·
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I picked up a beat up old looking book and was given a treat

Age of Reptiles Omnibus, Volume 1 by Ricardo Delgado

September 15, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Age of Reptiles Omnibus, Volume 1 by Ricardo Delgado is an expressive and talkative wordless graphic novel. However, things were a smidgen repetitive by the final section/chapter as we follow several different species, but all have similar needs and actions. I recommend not reading any of the introductions until after finishing if you are an adult (and since I do not see kids reading them I do not think this will be an issue) as they can, even subconsciously, tell you how you will and/or […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: animals, animation, reptiles, Ricardo Delgado, science, wordless book

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:657 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: animals, animation, reptiles, Ricardo Delgado, science, wordless book ·
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They put the fun in fungi

Fungi Grow by Maria Gianferrari

September 11, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am not even a fan of fungi (though occasionally I do like a little on a pizza with “a lot” on it) and think this is one of the best books I have read on the subject of fungi. At first, I was thinking, “wait, fungi? How dull.” And yet I just said I have read other books on the subject. Sure, but none were “guidebooks” (which this book looked like at first) but books where fungi was in the story or the graphic novel series […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: earth, fungi, Maria Gianferrari, Science & Nature

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:654 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: earth, fungi, Maria Gianferrari, Science & Nature ·
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Three biography reviews all in one place for your reading pleasure!

Dressing UP the Stars: The Story of Movie Costume Designer Edith Head by Jeanne Walker Harvey

Jose Feeds the World: How a famous chef feeds millions of people in need around the world by David Unger

The Snow Man: A True Story by Jonah Winter

September 11, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I like biographies. Mostly because you have to be pretty much into the subject to write about people. Granted, not all the time (you might be a contracted writer for a series) but when you have someone like Edith Head, the odds are you are a fan. Otherwise why would you write something about a person that famous, but not very “mainstream?” Oh sure, we know a little about her from the Disney The Incredibles movies, but that is nothing like the real woman. And […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: billy barr, chef, costumes, David Unger, Diana Toledano, Edith Head, Jeanette Winter, Jeanne Walker Harvey, Jonah Winter, José Andrés, Marta Álvarez Miguéns, science, Weather

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:652 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: billy barr, chef, costumes, David Unger, Diana Toledano, Edith Head, Jeanette Winter, Jeanne Walker Harvey, Jonah Winter, José Andrés, Marta Álvarez Miguéns, science, Weather ·
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If this is the third volume of poetry, wonder what the rest is like

Life in the Past Lane by Peter Carlaftes

September 11, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I had an online reader link to Awe and Other Words Like Wow: Poem by Kat Georges. I was somewhat excited because I had no idea what it was going to be like. I had little description and since it was one of my older saved links, I had forgotten why I had saved it in the first place. I only knew it was poetry because it said Poem. I clicked on the Click Here to Read Button and this image of a gray hair (I assumed) […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Romance Tagged With: Death, family, friends, grief, loss, Peter Carlaftes, Subjects & Themes

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:647 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Romance · Tags: Death, family, friends, grief, loss, Peter Carlaftes, Subjects & Themes ·
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