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Finding Snow Kid

Snow Kid by Jessie Sima

December 2, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Snow Kid by Jessie Sima was another one of those books I almost didn’t read. And then when I finally did read it, I almost didn’t review. You see, I am not the audience for it. Not really. Sure I can recommend it to the parents and grandparents who buy books for children, but it is for them, not the single woman who just adopts all the children as her nieces and nephews. You see, Snow Kid is a book that is simple text and […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Mystery, Poetry Tagged With: emotions, Feelings, friendship, identity, Jessie Sima, seasons, snow people, snowmen, Social Themes, winter

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:537 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Mystery, Poetry · Tags: emotions, Feelings, friendship, identity, Jessie Sima, seasons, snow people, snowmen, Social Themes, winter ·
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“If I’m on my very best behavior, maybe no one will notice how spooky I am.”

Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima

February 11, 2024 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

In January’s Cannonball Read Diversion there was a conversation about genres that you had never read before, and I thought to myself that there had to be at least one or two, but I was a little stumped. I didn’t really think about it again until it came time to review Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima because without even having to look, I’m pretty sure I’ve never reviewed a picture book (and it’s been A LONG TIME since I read one either).   Hardly Haunted […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: CBR16SweetBooks, Hardly Haunted, Jessie Sima, picture book, read harder challenge

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:8 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: CBR16SweetBooks, Hardly Haunted, Jessie Sima, picture book, read harder challenge ·
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Picture books are Fun

Indigo Dreaming by Dinah Johnson

Not Quite Narwhal and Friends: Weather Together by Jessie Sima

July 5, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

  cbr15bingo Africa: Indigo dreaming has the African connection I enjoy doing picture book reviews and doing a round-up review of a few titles at once. The thing with picture books is that they are short. So, they are easy to read. And yet, they can be packed from cover to cover with amazing goodies. Just sometimes that does not lend itself to a regulation review word count. The below titles are perfect for most people, yet different enough and varied in age ranges that […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History Tagged With: Africa, Anna Cunha, cbr15bingo, communication, Dinah Johnson, Dragons & Unicorns & Mythical, emotions, friendship, Jessie Sima, Social Themes, South Carolina, United States - African American & Black

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:471 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History · Tags: Africa, Anna Cunha, cbr15bingo, communication, Dinah Johnson, Dragons & Unicorns & Mythical, emotions, friendship, Jessie Sima, Social Themes, South Carolina, United States - African American & Black ·
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Love, Me

Love, Z by Jessie Sima

April 4, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am not completely familiar with the Robot Z, yet this book is familiar due to the theme. The simple question, “What is love?” is not as easy as Z would have hoped in Jessie Sima’s picture book Love, Z. But a wonderful journey later, Z finds that love might have been closer than they thought at first. A sweet, cozy story about family, friendship, and the real meaning of love. While this would have been a great Valentine’s Day book, it is also a […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry, Romance Tagged With: Concepts, family, friendship, Jessie Sima, Love, robots

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:135 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry, Romance · Tags: Concepts, family, friendship, Jessie Sima, Love, robots ·
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When Nimbus met Kelp

Perfectly Pegasus by Jessie Sima

Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima

January 25, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I was browsing a site we have and found a reader copy of Perfectly Pegasus (due late March/early April 2022). When looking up their other words (as the Pegasus Nimbus looked familiar) I saw several books by Jessie Sima I had read. And one was Not Quite Narwhal. I might have reviewed Narwhal before, but here we go again. The story of both Pegasus and Narwhal is simple: an animal (a Pegasus and what later learns they are a Unicorn) have an issue and they […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: friendship, Jessie Sima, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:38 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: friendship, Jessie Sima, Social Themes ·
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Hauntingly awesome

Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima

July 22, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr13bingo Self Care  Self Care to me is having fun. Halloween is fun (I mean CANDY????) and costumes (I have had more fun with costumes as an adult then I ever did as a kid, and I had some crazy fun costumes. Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother with her sign of qualifications anyone? Or years before, homemade paper mice in a cage (all connected) made by grandpa for the Cinderella costume?) Also, fun? Reading books. All types of books. Big ones, small ones, picture books, novels, poetry… […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, family, friendship, Ghost Stories, ghosts, halloween, Haunted House, Jessie Sima, self care bingo, self-esteem, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:207 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, family, friendship, Ghost Stories, ghosts, halloween, Haunted House, Jessie Sima, self care bingo, self-esteem, Social Themes ·
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