Lloyd Finds His Whalesong by Skylaar Amann
What book was going to be my cbr12bingo Music block? Though I could not remember the title right off, I knew a book about a whale I had read would be perfect. After bugging a coworker to 1) read it and 2) tell me the title I found it. The background to the book is almost as fun. as the book itself. As I said, after I had found this book that had caught my eye because of its lovely blue cover, that allowed me […]
Eight Days: A Story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat writes about Haiti with love and realism. With the picture book, Eight Days: A Story of Haiti they created a beautiful and sad story about a young boy trapped for over a week after the earthquake of Haiti a few years ago. However, this came out soon after the actual event, so it was timely. Now, one might have to explain the actual event, but sadly, we still have natural disasters, and this could be used to talk about them as well. Based […]
Brave Enough for Two (a Hoot and Olive book) has allusions to Winnie the Pooh. It is a soft, classically toned story written and illustrated by Jonathan D. Voss. This time, instead of Christopher Robin and Pooh, we have Olive and Hoot. Olive is the type of girl who likes adventures in books and Hoot is the type of stuffed owl who likes the “go out and have” adventures. And just like Pooh Bear and Christopher Robin, they go out into the world and have […]
Am I the only one who thinks when they see the words, “I’m a Duck”, you have to follow it up with, “Quack. Quack”? No? Just me? It is all good. But you now must read “I’m a Duck” by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Will Hillenbrand. And even if you do not quack along, you will be rooting for the little duck in this story. One day, an egg rolled out of the nest and into a deep pond. This caused the egg, now […]
I come from a large family of bookish people, so when we gather for Xmas, we exchange books for all the small ones. My older Squishie is fascinated by Space, so this book was an obvious choice for him. It’s a wonderful, inspirational book about facing your fears and living your dreams. –Side note: there is no Jakku in this book. Older Squishie is constantly looking for info about Jakku in his Space books and is convinced that maybe I’m just not that good at […]
