What a delightful book! My only qualm about I’ve Seen Santa! by David Bedford and illustrated by Tim Warnes is that one of the spreads was torn out in the library book that I borrowed thus missing out on another great illustration. This is one I would totally add to our home library.
Cute little Little [...]
I Love Christmas by Anna Walker is an adorable picture book for the younger crowd with simple text and the most wonderful illustrations. Ollie, our cute little main character loves Christmas and everything about it. The crinkly paper, tinsel, string, baking cakes with his Nanna, stars in the sky, Santa, and sitting in bed on [...]
What happens to the Christmas ornaments hung on the tree when the lights are turned out and everybody goes to bed? Well, from the movie Toy Story, we naturally know that all toys come alive when humans aren’t around and there are no exceptions to Christmas ornaments. In Secrets of a Christmas Box, Steven Hornby [...]
I can not believe that I almost have forgotten that I hadn’t yet reviewed The Help by Kathryn Stockett! Easily one of my most favorite books of the year! I can not rave about this book enough. I want to pepper this review with explanation marks everywhere!!
I knew that everybody was saying The Help was [...]
Picking Cotton, Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson- Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo is an unusual powerful story that I don’t think I’ll ever forget. In her early twenties, Jennifer Thompson was victim to a terrible crime. Her outside lights were smashed, her phone lines cut and while she slept [...]