Hashbrown Winters and the Mashimoto Madness by Frank L. Cole is the followup to The Adventures of Hashbrown Winters but I found one doesn’t need to read the first to understand the second. This book is wonderfully strange, irreverent, funny, quirky, odd, and perfect for young boys who are reluctant readers. Such a weird, weird, [...]
The year is 1856 and Charlotte is twelve-years-old. In Charlotte’s Rose by A.E. Cannon, Charlotte and her father, newly immigrated from Wales and newly converted to Mormonism, are among a group of pioneers pushing their own handcarts from Iowa City to Utah.
Tired of being treated like a child and eager to make a grandiose [...]
I have to admit, my book club just *might* be cooler than yours. Am I presumptuous or what?! The past year has been filled with some memorable moments including a phone chat with Donna Woolfolk Cross when we discussed Pope Joan (whom we will meet TONIGHT at a screening of the film!!), and a [...]
I just reviewed Leeann Whiffen’s fantastic memoir A Child’s Journey Out of Autism. A book which drew me completely into Leeann’s life as she battled to reverse Clay’s autism diagnosis. A battle which she won. Something that I didn’t know you could do. It’s a book which I highly recommend. I’m lucky enough to live [...]
Life couldn’t have been better for the Whiffen family when they welcomed newborn Clay into their lives. Mother Leeann was thrilled that he would grow up closely with his older brother. As any mother does, she has big hopes and dreams for her children and her family. But when Clay is two, he begins to [...]
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