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A friendship book made by friends, for friends

I Don’t Care by Julie Fogliano,

November 22, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I Don’t Care is a clever book. This is not just because of the text of Julie Fogliano, but how it came to be. The illustrators, Molly Idle and Juana Martinez-Neal are best friends, and they knew they had to do the art together. An afterwards (a small section at the end that you should read as well) shows how Molly thought since they lived 20 minutes from each other, easy peasy, right? Well, then Juana moved to Connecticut and the back and forth in […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Poetry Tagged With: friendship, Juana Martinez-Neal, Julie Fogliano, Molly Idle, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Themes, Stories in rhyme

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:565 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Poetry · Tags: friendship, Juana Martinez-Neal, Julie Fogliano, Molly Idle, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Themes, Stories in rhyme ·
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A spoiler but I’ll warn you where!

My Best Friend by Julie Fogliano

September 9, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

About a month ago, my cell totally pooped itself. I was able to factory reset it, losing everything in the process. Practically a month to the day, it poops itself again (just when I had gotten things back to mostly normal). Only this time it really “Shakespeare in the park” itself. (I was not allowed to swear as a child, so I used words that started with the same letter or sound. I think you can guess this one.) Therefore, I found myself on a […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: friendship, imagination, Jillian Tamaki, Julie Fogliano

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:277 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: friendship, imagination, Jillian Tamaki, Julie Fogliano ·
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A House That Once Was

May 30, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Julie Fogliano (of When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons fame) and Lane Smith (illustrator of The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs and I’m Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups) have combined their talents for A House That Once Was. It is hard to describe this book outside of the basic a boy and girl explore an abandoned house and imagined the people and things that might have lived there. They do this by […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: Julie Fogliano, Lane Smith

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:178 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: Julie Fogliano, Lane Smith ·
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