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Colorful Mondays: A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in Honduras by Nelson Rodriguez

Fiona the Fruit Bat by Dan Riskin

What's Inside a Bird's Nest?: And Other Questions about Nature & Life Cycles by Rachel Ignotofsky

July 13, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I like books. You like books. The neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, Honduras likes books. And Luis likes books in Colorful Mondays: A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in Honduras. A lot. And he cannot wait for the bookmobile to come once a week. He cannot wait for the adventures he will find inside books. And he cannot wait for the happy feelings he gets by reading, then telling, the stories. Nelson Rodriguez, Leonardo Agustin Monetes, Rosana Faria, Carla Tabora, and Lawrence Schimel got together and wrote, illustrated and […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: animals, birds, Books, Carla Tabora, Dan Riskin, eggs, family, friendship, Honduras, Lawrence Schimel, Leonardo Agustin Monetes, Nelson Rodriguez, nests, Rachel Ignotofsky, Rachel Qiuqi, reading, Rosana Faria, Science & Nature

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:514 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: animals, birds, Books, Carla Tabora, Dan Riskin, eggs, family, friendship, Honduras, Lawrence Schimel, Leonardo Agustin Monetes, Nelson Rodriguez, nests, Rachel Ignotofsky, Rachel Qiuqi, reading, Rosana Faria, Science & Nature ·
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The History of the Computer

The History of the Computer by Rachel Ignotofsky

July 13, 2023 by jmsudar 1 Comment

The History of the Computer is exactly what it sounds like, and it does a wonderful job. Over the course of the book it highlights the beginnings of algorithmic thinking via Ada Lovelace, through the mainframe computers like UNIVAC, up to a forward looking take on modern computing that, shockingly, already feels a little outdated because it was written pre-ChatGPT, and many of the things it speculates about with generative AI are already coming true. This is another one where I really can’t say a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Rachel Ignotofsky

jmsudar's CBR15 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Rachel Ignotofsky ·
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