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And this little Piglet came home

Piglet Comes Home: How a Deaf Blind Pink Puppy Found His Family by Melissa Shapiro

May 27, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When real Piglet the pup came home, they knew that the place was going to be their forever home. And unlike the humans of the picture book I read, the real-world humans, took a little more convincing. But either way, Piglet Comes Home: How a Deaf Blind Pink Puppy Found His Family was the result. Melissa Shapiro’s character bring homes a puppy. Well, at least the other dogs (all rescues) think it is a puppy. It is terribly pink, blind, and deaf. It looks more […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: animals, dogs, Ellie Snowdon, family, Melissa Shapiro, puppies, rescue, Special Needs

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:253 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: animals, dogs, Ellie Snowdon, family, Melissa Shapiro, puppies, rescue, Special Needs ·
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When One Book Closes, here are two others

Wild about Dads by Diana Murray

Little Monster Trucks GO! by Doug Cenko

I Will Dance by Nancy Bo Flood

December 16, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I cannot concentrate on long novels of late. When that happens (and occasionally it does), I turn to my picture books (hence why this is number 3 of a list of picture books today). No theme to these. Just three books I read, I liked and wanted to pass along to you. Wild about Dads  by Diana Murray (author), Amber Alvarez (illustrations) While I am giving this a 5, it is a 4.5 mostly because I wanted more! MORE dads and the things they do! […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Amber Alvarez, dads, dancing, Diana Murray, disabilities, Doug Cenko, family, friendship, Nancy Bo Flood, racing, Special Needs, trucks

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:405 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Amber Alvarez, dads, dancing, Diana Murray, disabilities, Doug Cenko, family, friendship, Nancy Bo Flood, racing, Special Needs, trucks ·
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We need some space….and humans to do our dirty work.

Last Pick V01 Last Pick by Jason Walz

Last Pick: V02 Born to Run by Jason Walz

May 11, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

You know this story. We have read it a hundred times: Aliens take over Earth, steal people for their own needs and eventually, humans decide to fight back. A few will die on both sides, but even more become heroes.  And there is nothing wrong with that. Especially since Last Pick and Last Pick: Born to Run by Jason Walz have a few new pieces of information. This is a science fiction and realism mixed together creation. There is the classic graphic novel format and […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Action & Adventure, Alien abduction, Brothers and sisters, Dystopian, Jason Walz, People with disabilities, Special Needs

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:173 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Action & Adventure, Alien abduction, Brothers and sisters, Dystopian, Jason Walz, People with disabilities, Special Needs ·
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We need books like this…..

You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino

September 11, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This is my Underrepresented category. You know of a minority, it is here. There are two dads in the doctor’s office. Jilly’s aunts are gay, and one is black (with two children from her previous marriage that she “called the biggest mistake of her life”). Gino speaks about the injustices surrounding the shootings of young black people. There is a black and deaf child. Jilly’s baby sister is deaf. The author, Alex Gino is non-gender conforming. You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P!  is Gino’s sophomore […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: African-American, Alex Gino, ASL, cbr10bingo, deaf, friendship, gender, hearing, hearing impaired, Prejudice & Racism, Social Themes, Special Needs, underrepresented

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:350 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: African-American, Alex Gino, ASL, cbr10bingo, deaf, friendship, gender, hearing, hearing impaired, Prejudice & Racism, Social Themes, Special Needs, underrepresented ·
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