Who doesn’t want to read a good book about buried treasure? This marvelous picture book, CREEK FINDING: A TRUE STORY, written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by Claudia McGehee is about a different kind of treasure. Not gold. Not jewels. This treasure is a disappeared creek. How can a creek disappear? Even more mysterious, how… Read more »
Nancy Bo Flood
FEATHERS FOR PEACOCK, a tale of caring and generosity
FEATHERS FOR PEACOCK Friendship and caring is the heart of this picture book, FEATHERS FOR PEACOCK. Jacqueline Jules has created a pourquois tale in the engaging folklore style of “ long ago, when the world was new, Peacock did not have the beautiful feathers he has now. Peacock was naked.” All the birds were naked!… Read more »
STRANGE FRUIT, BILLIE HOLIDAY and the POWER of a PROTEST SONG
Here is a WOW picture story book and so timely: STRANGE FRUIT, BILLIE HOLIDAY AND THE POWER OF A PROTEST SONG a book for all ages written by Gary Golio and illustrated by Charlotte Riley-Webb. What a woman, Billie Holiday. And now, what a book about Billie and the song she dared to sing about… Read more »
THE ROCK MAIDEN, a Chinese Tale of Love and Loyalty
What is loyalty? When you are someone’s friend, what does it mean to be a true and LOYAL friend? THE ROCK MAIDEN, a Chinese Tale of Love and Loyalty, shows us the power of true love and loyalty. In this re-telling of the legend about Amah Rock – a fifty-foot granite formation found in the Sha… Read more »
WE Have a Cybil’s POETRY Winner!!!
THE LAST FIFTH GRADE OF EMERSON ELEMENTARY (Wendy Lamb Books, 2016) What an unusual, delightful, and thoughtful novel-in-verse for middle-grade readers, written by Laura Shovan. Here’s a “taste” of this delightful book: “Eighteen kids, one year of poems, one school set to close. Two yellow bulldozers crouched outside, ready to eat the building in one greedy gulp….”… Read more »
MISSING NIMAMA – when a child grieves for a parent
This picture book by Melanie Florence and illustrated by Francois Thisdale tells the story of Kateri, a young Cree girl who is motherless and being raised by her grandmother, Nohkom. Kateri’s story is based on the stories of the missing indigenous women of the U.S. and Canada. Told in alternating voices, the absent mother follows… Read more »
THE SOUND OF ALL THINGS
Your parents are deaf but you can hear. In this picture book, THE SOUND OF ALL THINGS by Myron Ulberg, a hearing son describes to his father through sign language all the noise and music that surround them as they enjoy the sights of the amusement park, Coney Island. But how do you explain the… Read more »
