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Plant a seed and watch it grow….read a book and watch your imagination soar

September 11, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Both books Forest Dreams by Imai and Kate, Who Tamed the Wind by Liz Garton Scanlon (illustrated by Lee White) take the theme of trees and conservation and make two different stories. Yet, while the path they take is different, the end of the journey results in the same goal.   Forest Dreams is an interesting story, but in some ways, it is abstract, too. Ayano Imai has created some very lovely illustrations to complement their text and its conservation theme. The dream the narrator […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Ayano Imai, conservation, Dreams, friendship, Lee White, Liz Garton, Trees

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:349 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Ayano Imai, conservation, Dreams, friendship, Lee White, Liz Garton, Trees ·
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You can be kind too

May 14, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I Am Enough by debut collaborators Grace Byers and Keturah A. Bobo is a story of self-confidence and kindness for girls everywhere. They show girls of all backgrounds and colors. I would have liked to have seen both girls and boys laughing, singing, running races together.  But with that said it is a lovely book with even more lovely illustrations. Meant for a younger audience to have it read to them, the slightly older reader could read it to a younger sibling. In Digger and […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: conservation, enviornment, Grace Byers, Joseph Kuefler, Keturah A. Bobo, kindness, self-esteem

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:134 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: conservation, enviornment, Grace Byers, Joseph Kuefler, Keturah A. Bobo, kindness, self-esteem ·
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