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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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If you want to keep on swimmin’ you’ll need to take care of the planet first

To Change a Planet by Christina Soontorvat

February 21, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

To Change a Planet by Christina Soontorvat is a lovely story about how one small event, person, or thing, can have a global impact. And if each one of us bans together, we can try and help the issues we have created. Of course, there is little new to this concept presented in the pages of Soontorvat’s story. Yet, it is a nice book. It would be good for a classroom setting, or a quiet time read. The colorfully bold illustrations by Rahele Jomepour Bell […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Christina Soontorvat, environmental, Rahele Jomepour Bell, science and nature

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:65 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Christina Soontorvat, environmental, Rahele Jomepour Bell, science and nature ·
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