The text is simple, but the subtext vast. This book is a warm optimistic conversation between two little girls about challenging one’s perspective.
Tag: Diversity
REVIEW: TORMENTA DE PIMIENTA
This book is a delight from start to finish. If you don’t read Spanish, you had better download Duolingo so you can start learning it in order to read this darling, funny, smart, cool book.
REVIEW: Adventures With My Daddies
This book is a celebration of all families in that it illustrates (pun intended) the commonality inherent in and shared by parents that actively parent and care for their children.
Review: Grandfather Bowhead, tell Me a story
For each question Arvaaq asks Grandfather Bowhead, the response invariably expresses that the greatest adventures of his life are the times they have spent together.
REVIEW: La Burrita Baldomera
In this moving story based on actual events, this is exactly what we see. The story of a friendship that brings together two unlikely subjects, a man and a mule. They become fast friends and spend time together enjoying one another’s company and sharing special moments.
REVIEW: Florence and Her Fantastic Family Tree
What do you do when your family tree doesn’t quite look like everyone else’s?
REVIEW: Stompin’ at the Savoy
Stompin’ at the Savoy gives an abbreviated biography of the big-time, but short-in-stature jazz drummer and bandleader Chick Webb, focusing on a real-life battle of the bands between Chick and Benny Goodman.
REVIEW: Story Boat
Where is home? Where is here? When you are a child, home is usually where your things are. This is particularly true for kids, being the scavenging hoarders they are. And here? Home is here and here is where you are. So what happens to your sense of home, when you have to leave everything you know behind to travel to distant lands?
REVIEW: Cannonball
In this book from New Zealand, a young Māori boy dreams of making a big splash. Literally. All he wants to do is be able to cannonball into the water. Everyone around him seems to be able to do it, and if you could cannonball, you were someone around these parts.