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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Round up at the O-K-bookstore

It Started with a Book Ban by Linda Ravin Lodding 

Tic-errific Me: A book about Tourette syndrome (Disability Books for Kids) by Alicia Meyers and Cait Brennan

The Kimchi Fridge by Tina Cho and Cindy Kang

March 6, 2026 by BlackRaven 1 Comment

Round up time for my beloved picture books. All titles were read via an online reader copy.   BOOK ONE It Started with a Book Ban by Linda Ravin Lodding A fun and silly way to talk about the seriousness of the idea of Book Banning. And while I don’t promote banning things, I must admit sometimes the color green is annoying to me, too. (And pink, pink can be too cheerful).  Obviously Lodding uses humor to get the message across and goes into extreme […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: activism, Alicia Meyers, Alicia Meyers and Cait Brennan, Asian American & Pacific Islander, Books, Cait Brennan, Cindy Kang, Concepts, Disability, family, libraries, Linda Ravin Lodding, Multigenerational, self-esteem, sensation, senses, Social Themes, Tina Cho, Tina Cho and Cindy Kang, tourette syndrome

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:82 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: activism, Alicia Meyers, Alicia Meyers and Cait Brennan, Asian American & Pacific Islander, Books, Cait Brennan, Cindy Kang, Concepts, Disability, family, libraries, Linda Ravin Lodding, Multigenerational, self-esteem, sensation, senses, Social Themes, Tina Cho, Tina Cho and Cindy Kang, tourette syndrome ·
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The new familar

The Princess and the Grain of Rice by Tina Cho

December 10, 2025 by BlackRaven 2 Comments

When I first started working at the bookstore, I decided I was going to collect Cinderella stories from around the world. I found so many I had to stop. There were just too many. Then I decided that I would read as many fairy tales as I could and only collect the ones that really hit the spot.  And what book hits a spot better than a Princess and the Pea story? Or more accurately  The Princess and the Grain of Rice. However, this time […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, History, Poetry, Romance Tagged With: Asia, Asian, Country & Cultural, fairytales, folktales, korea, Korean, Princess and the Pea, princesses, queens, Social Themes, Tina Cho, Values & Virtues

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:548 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, History, Poetry, Romance · Tags: Asia, Asian, Country & Cultural, fairytales, folktales, korea, Korean, Princess and the Pea, princesses, queens, Social Themes, Tina Cho, Values & Virtues ·
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