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Two reviews for you

Mary Had a Little Jam by Tammi Sauer and Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Pencil  by Hye-Eun Kim

April 10, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

My recent picture book reading day included a lot of books. So many in fact that I had to break them into two different reviews. Also read and now included in this review were Mary Had a Little Jam by Tammi Sauer and Vanessa Brantley-Newton and Pencil  by Hye-Eun Kim. Well, Hye-Eun Kim’s book was more looked at than read as it is a wordless picture book. And still Pencil is something that I can write several words about. The fun part of this book […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: African American & Black, art, diversity, Environment, Hye-Eun Kim, imagination, music, nature, nursery rhyme, Performing Arts, science, Tammi Sauer, Tammi Sauer and Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, wordless picture book

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:186 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: African American & Black, art, diversity, Environment, Hye-Eun Kim, imagination, music, nature, nursery rhyme, Performing Arts, science, Tammi Sauer, Tammi Sauer and Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, wordless picture book ·
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Two more books that will tie up your day with reading

December 27, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Making a Friend is a clever pun. As Beaver is good at making a lot of things (slides, stripy socks, a lodge) but he is not good at making friends. Oh, he tries, but it never works out as he hopes. Though I would say the others are not really appreciating the attempts. A skunk should appreciate flowers (who does not like flowers?) and the why is the porcupine sad over the popped balloons? But yes, waking owl during the day is a bit more […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: Alison Friend, animals, Barbara Bottner, friends, snowman, Tammi Sauer, uYi Chen, winter

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:479 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: Alison Friend, animals, Barbara Bottner, friends, snowman, Tammi Sauer, uYi Chen, winter ·
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Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh.

May 6, 2017 by ChainedVase 4 Comments

So, unpopular opinion time: I hate Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I hate that the message of the story is that it’s totally fine and acceptable to make fun of and ostracize someone for being Different until you need them. People don’t need to be useful to be valuable. You don’t have to prove your worth to your friends. This book is about two friends that do everything together. They enjoy each other’s company. Nugget is a minnow and Fang is a shark. Eventually, Nugget […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: Tammi Sauer

ChainedVase's CBR9 Review No:8 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: Tammi Sauer ·
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