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Loss and Love

Always Sisters: A Story of Loss and Love by Saira Mir

August 16, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When you see a book with the title Always Sisters: A Story of Loss and Love a lot can go through your mind, as I know it did for me. Which was mostly what we were to deal with in the case of death. Disease? Accident? An older sibling taking their own life? Not to mention, is this going to be a straight forward or a “sappy” read. For me that made the process of reading this book perhaps more interesting than the book itself. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health Tagged With: Death, Emotions & Feelings, family, grief, pregnancy, Saira Mir, Shahrzad Maydani, siblings, Sisters, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:593 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health · Tags: Death, Emotions & Feelings, family, grief, pregnancy, Saira Mir, Shahrzad Maydani, siblings, Sisters, Social Themes ·
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My feathered and not so feathered friends

Bird Boy by f Matthew Burges

August 19, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Bird Boy is marketed as an “Inclusive Children’s Book.” And while I am not sure what the criteria is for that, the results of Matthew Burgess and Shahrzad Maydani’s book is one that shows you how to be yourself and shows that we are all different but similar at the same time. We are rainbow colors, and maybe use wheelchairs or have glasses, but we can play, have fun, and enjoy nature, and be ourselves with our friends. What happens when you are a shy […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: animals, birds, f Matthew Burges, friendship, Matthew Burgess, school, Shahrzad Maydani

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:235 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: animals, birds, f Matthew Burges, friendship, Matthew Burgess, school, Shahrzad Maydani ·
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