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Soon, Your Hands by Jonathan Stutzman

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Three children and three different and diverse families are the focus of Soon, Your Hands by Jonathan Stutzman. The families are two dads and a son, a mother and father and daughter (who is hearing different), and a young boy with this mother and grandmother. We follow them (what seems to be one day) where one dad goes off to work, where the other stays home with their son to make a surprise birthday party. One father flies off (as a piolet) and the mother […]

When a tumbleweed learns a little mindfulness

Slow Down, Tumbleweed! by Haven Iverson

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Slow Down, Tumbleweed! is not in Tumbleweeds vocabulary. Feeling the world is only worth living if they are flying and rushing through it, Tumbleweed is always go go going! They never stop to take a breath. That is, not until they become stuck on a fence on a farm. At first, Tumbleweed is sad, crying, missing the sights around them (such as a handsome badger). But soon they realize, there is much more to life when you stop and be still, when you stop and […]

I had a book read to me part two

Dear Little One by Nina Laden

Paletero Man by Lucky Diaz

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A little while ago I received an emailed newsletter from a publisher. I don’t remember now which one, but it had some titles for GLBT+ and Pride goodies. It also included a video link of a Miss Terra Cotta Sugarbaker doing a Drag Queen Storytime. And as often happens when on the internet, down a rabbit hole of people reading books I went. One such person was Miss Althea and her toy sloth friend, Cecil. I found two books I might not have otherwise because […]

Word of the Day: Kindness

Can Sophie Change the World? by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

A Small Kindness by Stacy McAnulty

Hundred Feet Tall by Benjamin Scheuer

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Kindness is the word of the day. Or, at least, the word of the review. Sophie wants to give a gift for her grandfather. He says he does not want anything, but when she insists, he asks her to perform a good work and change the world (a mitzvah). She does not know how she can change the world. She is just a kid and not able to do big things. But when she tells her grandfather of the acts she did while trying to […]

Freedom, We Sing 

Freedom, We Sing  by Amyra León

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I wonder then, what Freedom is. Is it a place? Is it a thought? Can it be stolen? Can it be bought? Sharing a conversation about the earth, its inhabitants, and what Freedom means to them, a mother and her child dance through questions about life, love, and family in Amyra León’s stunning poem. Complemented by Molly Mendoza’s gorgeous and flowing illustrations, this striking book is sure to empower and inspire children everywhere. The above words are on the back page of Freedom, We Sing by […]

If he wears a shirt, why doesn’t he need pants?

Make Your Bed with Skipper the Seal by William H. McRaven

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Make Your Bed with Skipper the Seal are the 10 steps/points that the author William H. McRaven learned while they were a human Navy Seal.  They have spoken about them at commencements and in several books for adults. This time, with Howard McWilliam creating the cartoon illustrations, they created a picture book that talks how a seal named Skipper becomes not only the best Navy Seal, but the best Seal he could be. The idea is that the little things are important such as how […]



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