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Salmon Running and Snow Falling

Salmon Run: An epic journey to the ocean and back by Annie Chen

Snowfall by Sun-jung Park

February 11, 2026 by BlackRaven 6 Comments

Picture books are a fun way to read books. You finished reading something, feel accomplish and can binge without really taking a lot of time out of your day. Take an hour and you can have half a dozen or more reads under your belt depending on the size of them. Two books that would be a good hour read are the two below. The first is a bit on the longer side and paced so you do want to take your time. The second […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: animals, Annie Chen, ecosystems, environmental, fish, lakes, nature, oceans, salmon, science, Sun-jung Park, wordless picture book

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:52 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: animals, Annie Chen, ecosystems, environmental, fish, lakes, nature, oceans, salmon, science, Sun-jung Park, wordless picture book ·
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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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Spencer and his Pet go on an adventure

Spencer's New Pet by Jessie Sima

August 29, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am writing about (and counting) this wordless picture book towards my total book count as it is something people need to know about.  There have been wordless picture books before; some hits and others not so much for me. But Spencer’s New Pet is someplace in between. This is because it has (semi-spoiler) one big screwy, creepy, out there, what the fudge (only I didn’t say fudge) just happened ending! Jessie Sima’s story might just be a case of things are not always exactly […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: Imagination & Play, Jessie Sima, wordless picture book

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:346 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: Imagination & Play, Jessie Sima, wordless picture book ·
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