photo by Beverly & pack www.flickr.com Happy Memorial Day! I hope you are enjoying what might be a day off of work for you and remembering your loved ones today as well as the men and women who have given their lives in exchange for our freedom and protection. Today’s post will be short. I [...]

With this Tilbury House blog tour for One of Us, we are celebrating the theme “bravely be you!” The picture book, One of Us written by Peggy Moss and illustrated by Penny Weber is the story of Roberta who is starting a new school and trying to fit in. First, Roberta befriends the straight-up hair [...]

photo by pareerica www.flickr.com *Picture book for preschoolers through third graders, based on a fairy tale *Sorghum cookie boy as main character *Rating: Cookie Boy Travelin’ Arkansas is a clever twist on the old tale–”The Gingerbread Man.” Anyone living in or visiting Arkansas will especially love this book! Short, short summary: A young couple in [...]

Today, I am happy to host Dr. Caron Goode, author of Raising Intuitive Children: Guide Your Children to Know and Trust Their Gifts, who is discussing her new book: Kids Who See Ghosts: How to Guide Them Through Fear. Caron is going to answer some questions for us today about her book, and she is [...]

As I talked about yesterday, Heifer International is a wonderful organization that encourages people to help each other. They have been around for almost 60 years, helping people to obtain a sustainable food source and income. Here’s a success story from their magazine World Ark:: Ganga Khanal, who lives in Nepal, said she was devalued [...]

First, I’d like to announce the winner of the Seeds of Change book giveaway from last Thursday’s post. It is . . .Becky Povich. Thank you to Becky and everyone who left comments on this post. Beatrice’s Goat by Page McBrier and illustrated by Lori Lohstoeter is a wonderful children’s book based on a true [...]

*Picture book for infants to Kindergarteners, contemporary fiction *Young girl as main character *Rating: Say Hello! is a book children will return to again and again as they learn to speak “hello” in many different languages. Rachel Isadora is a brilliant illustrator, too! Short, short summary: Carmelita, her mom, and her dog are on their [...]

Seeds of Change written by Jen Cullerton Johnson and illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler is a terrific and beautiful biography picture book about Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai. I am giving away one copy of this book that I received from Lee and Low for review. Simply leave a comment or [...]

I first learned about The International Justice Mission when I attended a human trafficking awareness night on the University of Illinois campus. A young man who had interned with IJM shared his horrifying stories from the field–stories of girls as young as TWO YEARS OLD in brothels. After listening to him–someone who had been on [...]

I want to share with you a story from Half the Sky. This is a typical story of what is happening to many teenage girls around the world. Read this powerful book to find out more about Srey Rath, but I will start her story here. When Rath, a Cambodian, was 15 years old, her [...]