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Warmth in its forms

What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman

August 16, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am just going to say that this awesome book of poems was created by Neil Gaiman. They called it, What You Need to Be Warm. And they had a long list of illustrators, some I knew and others were new to me. And then I will say it is about refugees and other displaced people and what images, things, places or people that made them feel warm. And then just gush that this is both the best and worst thing I have read this […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Bagram Ibatouilline, Benji Davis, Beth Suzanna, Chris Riddle, Daniel Egneus, Emigration & Immigration, Majid Adin, Marie-Alice Harel, Nadine Kaadan, Neil Gaiman, Oliver Jeffers, Pam Smy, Petr Horacek, Poverty & Homelessness, Richard Jones, Social Themes, Yuliya Gwilym

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:598 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Bagram Ibatouilline, Benji Davis, Beth Suzanna, Chris Riddle, Daniel Egneus, Emigration & Immigration, Majid Adin, Marie-Alice Harel, Nadine Kaadan, Neil Gaiman, Oliver Jeffers, Pam Smy, Petr Horacek, Poverty & Homelessness, Richard Jones, Social Themes, Yuliya Gwilym ·
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Grandma and Felix

Words Between Us by Angela Pham Krans

August 16, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When I first saw Words Between Us as an online reader copy and noticed the cover, it made me assume that this was going to be a grandparent/grandchild story and one where their language difficulties would cause problems. However, I was mostly right. This was a grandmother and grandson story, but they are able to speak to each other (both speak Vietnamese). They have a tight and special bond as time goes by and the two of them learn about each other. However, the grandmother […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction Tagged With: Angela Pham Krans, Asia, Dung Ho, Emigration & Immigration, family, grandmothers, grandsons, Social Themes, Vietnam

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:596 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction · Tags: Angela Pham Krans, Asia, Dung Ho, Emigration & Immigration, family, grandmothers, grandsons, Social Themes, Vietnam ·
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Languages for the power

My Mother's Tongues: A Weaving of Languages by Uma Menon

July 19, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

My Mother’s Tongues: A Weaving of Languages is a clever story of a young girl and her family’s talents with languages. Well, her mother can speak two different languages. She has one for her mother and daughter, and another for the cashier. However, sometimes the two are mixed. And the young girl explores her family and how they learned to speak several languages, and what that means. The connection between the generations is sweet and the cultural connections are delightful to learn. Uma Menon introduces […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Asia, Emigration & Immigration, English, family, grandmothers, India, Languages, Malayalam, mothers, Rahele Jomepour Bell, Social Themes, Uma Menon

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:537 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Asia, Emigration & Immigration, English, family, grandmothers, India, Languages, Malayalam, mothers, Rahele Jomepour Bell, Social Themes, Uma Menon ·
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A soap bird and four seeds

Dounia and the Magic Seeds by Marya Zarif

July 14, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

One day I was looking at my online reader copy list and said, “Today I read you.” Well, I never did read that book, but read Dounia and the Magic Seeds instead. I had no real intention of reading it. The cover art was cute, but was not “doing it” for me. I was sure Yvette Ghione was a lovely person, but that was not helping me get into it. But the day I looked at another book, yet clicking on Dounia, I knew it […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Religion Tagged With: Emigration & Immigration, Marya Zarif, Middle East, Multigenerational, Syria, Yvette Ghione

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:521 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Religion · Tags: Emigration & Immigration, Marya Zarif, Middle East, Multigenerational, Syria, Yvette Ghione ·
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Rhythm and butterflies

A Flicker of Hope: A Story of Migration by Cynthia Harmony

Rhythm by Jackie Azua Kramer

May 31, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Perseverance in an interesting concept. And within the picture books A Flicker of Hope: A Story of Migration and Rhythm, we see two different ways of obtaining that.  Both titles are due mid-February 2024 and were read via an online reader copy. Cynthia Harmony made a book that has the migration of not only monarchs, but people too, in A Flicker of Hope. When Lucia and her father notice that the monarch butterflies are getting ready for their trip North, they know the journey of […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: community, Cynthia Harmony, Devon Holzwarth, Emigration & Immigration, family, Jackie Azua Kramer, Mental Health, Migration, monarch butterflies, parents, Poverty & Homelessness, Science & Nature, seasons, Social Themes, Taia Morley

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:391 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: community, Cynthia Harmony, Devon Holzwarth, Emigration & Immigration, family, Jackie Azua Kramer, Mental Health, Migration, monarch butterflies, parents, Poverty & Homelessness, Science & Nature, seasons, Social Themes, Taia Morley ·
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Finding family

On the Move: Home Is Where You Find It by Michael Rosen

May 15, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A rating of 3 makes this seem like it On the Move: Home Is Where You Find It is not a good book/collection. However, this rating is because of the images of Quentin Blake, which I am not a fan of. However, they are perfect for the atmosphere of the writing (raw, desolate, almost hopeless) and since t there are no half points, this is a 3.5 lower 4. The idea of migration, refugees, immigrants, all come together while we follow Michael Rosen finding out about […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion, Young Adult Tagged With: Emigration & Immigration, family, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Michael Rosen, Quentin Blake, Social Topics, ww2, WWII

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:341 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion, Young Adult · Tags: Emigration & Immigration, family, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Michael Rosen, Quentin Blake, Social Topics, ww2, WWII ·
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