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Home missing you too

Homesick by Audrey Vernick and Liza Garton

December 19, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Have you ever been homesick for your home, family, a friend or place? Mostly likely you answered yes. However, have you ever thought that maybe your home is homesick for you when you go away? In Audrey Vernick and Liza Garton’s picture book (due August 2026) Homesick, that is what happens. The child of the story goes off to their grandparents home. The house became sad, missing its child and the story goes through the emotions. We even see how the parents mention how things […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Audrey Vernick, Audrey Vernick and Liza Garton, Daniel Miyares, emotions, Feelings, Liza Garton, new experinces, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:560 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Audrey Vernick, Audrey Vernick and Liza Garton, Daniel Miyares, emotions, Feelings, Liza Garton, new experinces, Social Themes ·
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Coming of age during the Cuban Revolution

How to Say Goodbye in Cuban by Daniel Miyares

July 29, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Cbr17bingo Border (leaving Cuba’s borders is dangerous, entering the US boarding is difficult) While a tense story, How to Say Goodbye in Cuban by Daniel Miyares, is also a delightful one of overcoming the adversity of the times. Though immigration stories are not new, the author makes this based on real events (his own fathers journey from Cuba to the States) fresh. This is a relatively unknown story as I have not seen a lot of stories that were set so much in Cuba with little […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Caribbean & Latin America, Carlos Miyares, cbr17bingo, Cbr17bingo Border, Cuba, cuban revolution, Daniel Miyares, Emigration, Immigration, refugees

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:337 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Caribbean & Latin America, Carlos Miyares, cbr17bingo, Cbr17bingo Border, Cuba, cuban revolution, Daniel Miyares, Emigration, Immigration, refugees ·
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Trot right over and find this foxy number!

Little Fox in the Snow by Jonathan London

January 14, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Little Fox in the Snow is a beautiful, realistic story of what a fox does (hunts mice, rabbits, explores and more). This is a refreshing twist to modern stories. Jonathan London tells you this is what a fox is. They are an animal that preys on the mouse and rabbit. However, it is done tastefully. You know the fox will eat the mouse and rabbit (London tells you this) but it is not “blood guts and gore.” The fact that the fox has an enemy […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Daniel Miyares, Jonathan London, Mammals, Nature & the Natural World

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:17 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Daniel Miyares, Jonathan London, Mammals, Nature & the Natural World ·
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Have a Night In with Night Out

July 13, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Night Out by Daniel Miyares has great, lovely illustrations but what is needed is more story. The boy of our story is an outcast orphan (from what you can tell from the illustrations). But after an amazing, quirky, bizarre and fun dream (or is it?) where the boy makes many new friends, he is able to tell a story (the dream) to the other boys. And now, he has found a way to make friends and no longer sits alone at the end of table. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Bedtime & Dreams, bedtime story, Daniel Miyares

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:258 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Bedtime & Dreams, bedtime story, Daniel Miyares ·
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