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What Emma Wrote: The Woman Behind the Words on the Statue of Liberty by Ann D. Koffsky and N. Tarcan

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What Emma Wrote: The Woman Behind the Words on the Statue of Liberty by Ann D. Koffsky (Ann Diament Koffsky) and illustrator N. Tarcan   While I was not WOWed by this story, I was warm and cozy with it. It was a nice story, a good introduction to the subject and made me want to learn more about the woman who is the Emma of the title. Both the text and illustrations give off comfortable vibes The publisher’s description says “with its poetic message” […]

Poems to read

The Wanting Way: Poems (Multiverse) by Adam Wolfond

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I enjoyed what I read of The Wanting Way: Poems (Multiverse) by Adam Wolfond, but was unable to actually finish. I was not in the right mind frame for such an intense, deceptively simple story created from poems. This is a personal read as I have family and friends on the spectrum. I kept putting it off reading for that reason and I started it a few days before it was due as it was an interlibrary loan title. I could not renew it, so […]

Unbury the secrets

Rubble: The Hidden Letters of the Warsaw Ghetto by Elisa Boxer and Oksana Drachkovska

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The book Under the Rubble: The Hidden Letters of the Warsaw Ghetto by Elisa Boxer and illustrator Oksana Drachkovska did not give me a warm and happy feeling. It gave me a cold and sad feeling. The theme is obvious by the title as we know what the Warsaw Ghetto was. Now, one would think that this is not a book for kids, and it is not for the very young or frankly overly sensitive. But when you know your child (or classroom) is ready, […]

And it’s Good Good Leroy um… White. Goodest ghost in the whole darn greenhouse

Leroy Has Something to Say by Emily Rosenthal and My Phuong Thai

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The picture book Leroy Has Something to Say by Emily Rosenthal and illustrator My Phuong Thai is a book that made me have a warm happy. Lately not a lot of books have made me feel warm happy. And that is okay. I mean, I am an adult and can handle adult subjects, but sometimes I need to tone the doom and gloom down to a mild roar. And after reading Leroy I was able to have a happy warm feeling.  The cover is super […]

I didn’t try the recipes (since I don’t know the difference between a cup and a teaspoon) but everything sounds yummy

Ramadan on Rahma Road: A Recipe Storybook by Razeena Omar Gutta, Faaiza Osman, Atieh Sohrabi

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If you are looking for a new book to add to your collection of worldly books or Muslim representation, then Ramadan on Rahma Road: A Recipe Storybook by Razeena Omar Gutta and Faaiza Osman, with illustrator Atieh Sohrabi should be on your radar. Read via an online reader (but currently available), this is a Ramadan story with 24 recipes that represent each of the families on Rahma Road. As we read, the people (from different backgrounds and dynamics) prepare a dish from their culture for […]

Coming to a Bookstore Near You

Prickles and Prides by Wendy Barron

Hooray for My Brain! by Paul Meisel

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I am not always a science person, but when I find one that I like, it sticks with me and is usually a children’s book. Two such books are reviewed below. One is about animals in both fiction illustrations and factual humor and the other is about the nature of the human brain for younger readers. Both were read via online reader copies and the first is due early April 2026 and the second later in the month.. As much as I enjoyed Prickles and […]



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