Happy Holiday Season to all! THE NIGHT BEFORE HANUKKAH by Natasha Wing, illus. by Amy Wummer HANUKKAH – the Festival of Lights, eight wonderful days of families celebrating that miracles do happen. Sometimes the miracle of today is found in…
Author: nancyboflood
WHAT FLOWERS REMEMBER
WHAT FLOWERS REMEMBER by SHANNON WIERSBITZKY “Heirloom flowers are born from seeds that…have been handed down from generation to generation….While gathering seeds in my hand, some big, some as tiny as a grain of sand, I’ve wondered if they hold…
GREEN EARTH BOOK AWARDS
BOOKS ABOUT OUR NATURAL WORLD PLUS ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY: Green Earth Book Award Winners GREEN EARTH celebrated its 10th anniversary of the Green Earth Book Award last month events at the Read Green Festival. Part of this celebration included a donation…
SONG OF THE EARTH
SONG OF THE EARTH C. Susan Nunn’s novel, SONG OF THE EARTH, is an unusual book. It weaves intrigue, mystery, page-turning adventure and hot romance set in the “Borderlands,” the barbed-wired, patrolled border along northern Mexico. This “New Adult” novel…
COLORS OF THE WIND by J.L.Powers
COLORS OF THE WIND is a picture-book biography with startling paintings that open your eyes and a true story about an Olympic champion runner and award-winning artist who is blind: George Mendoza. The author of this book, J.L. Powers, tells…
YES! WE ARE LATINOS
YES! WE ARE LATINOS By Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, pictures by David Diaz Voices! Power and pride singing in this book is felt in each of the thirteen distinctive narrative poems. Each poem is told in the…
APPLESAUCE a picture book about fathers & sons
APPLESAUCE by Klaas Verplancke Dads get grumpy. Kids get ornery. Sometimes after hearing “No!” children stomp off to their rooms thinking that some OTHER Dad might be a much nicer Dad. APPLESAUSE, a picture book by Klaas Verplancke, is funny…
NEVER SAY A MEAN WORD AGAIN !!
NEVER SAY A MEAN WORD AGAIN, A TALE FROM MEDIEVAL SPAIN Written by Jacqueline Jules and illustrated by Durga Yael Bernhard What could be more universal than name-calling and fighting – between children or adults? What could be harder to…
Marilyn Nelson, Poetry and Prejudice
Novels and Biographies in Verse! Sometimes we are moved by a whole collections of poems and sometimes the power of one poem causes us to pause, to wonder over. I would like to share the beginning of this poem by…
POETRY AND PREJUDICE, NOVELS IN VERSE, MARILYN NELSON!
Sometimes we are moved by a whole collections of poems and sometimes the power of one poem causes us to pause, to wonder over. I would like to share the beginning of this poem by Arnold Adoff: “… t r…