Thank you, Readerkidz and Stephanie Greene, for sharing your review of BE LIGHT LIKE A BIRD and author interview: In “Be Light Like a Bird” by Monika Schröder, 12-year-old Wren is faced not only with the loss of her father,…
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WHAT a BEAUTIFUL MORNING a picture book about Alzheimers
This book by Arthur A. Levine and illustrated by Katie Kath will bring a beautiful morning to you. The subject of this picture book, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING, is a difficult one. Noah experiences the sudden and confusing changes in…
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING
This book by Arthur A. Levine and illustrated by Katie Kath will bring a beautiful morning to you. The subject of this picture book, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING, is a difficult one. Noah experiences the sudden and confusing changes in…
THE WORLD IN A SECOND
Take one second, just one, and imagine all the events happening to all the many people living in all the different countries around the world. In this award-winning picture book, each double-page presents an illustration that shows a place and…
BORN 0N THE FOURTH OF JULY
Forty years ago Ron Kovic’s memoir, Born on the Fourth of July, was released and soon sold over one million copies. The movie version, co-written with Oliver Stone and starring Tom Cruise as Kovic, was the 1989 Academy Award-winning film.…
WATCH OUT FOR FLYING KIDS Social Justice Award Winner!
Watch Out For Flying Kids by Cynthia Levinson is not just a book about being a kid in a circus and flying through the air, trusting that someone on another trapeze will reach out and catch you, this book is…
LUIS PAINTS THE WORLD, a picture book of waiting, hoping, and connecting
LUIS PAINTS THE WORLD, written by Terry Farish and illustrated with dramatic swirls of color by Oliver Dominguez, presents a story of how confusing and scary it is to have someone in the family deployed. Luis’s big brother, Nico, doesn’t…
THE SEAGOING COWBOY, and a surprise link to Heifer International
World War II had just ended. Families in Europe were starving. Many were homeless. Farmers had lost their livestock, their fields, even the seeds needed to replant. THE SEAGOING COWBOY describes in simple, effective words and illustrations the relief program,…
JOSEPH BRUCHAC, two new powerful books
BROTHERS OF THE BUFFALO, a Novel of the Red River War, is like no other book Joseph Bruchac has written and that is saying something considering he has published over 120 books, many of them award winners, most of them…
THE LOST CELT – adventure with a veteran’s heart
THE LOST CELT written by A.E. Conran, Gosling Press, 2016 “The best kind of children’s adventure story …. Not to be missed.” Katherine Applegate, Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal THE LOST CELT is a page-turner hero’s tale full of…