Always My Brother by Jean Reagan and illustrated by Phyllis Pollema-Cahill is a very touching book and fills a need for books written for grieving children. In this lovingly written story, Becky and her brother John do everything together. Like running barefoot in the snow, playing soccer, and making her laugh with his knock-knock jokes [...]
You wouldn’t know it from reading my blog but I used to pick up the occasional motivational book. Step Back from the Baggage Claim: Change the World, Start at the Airport by Jason Barger has taken me back to a genre that I have regretfully left behind. I have found that it’s nice to pick [...]
In Standing Still by Kelly Simmons, Claire trades in the life of a journalist for that of a stay-at-home mom. Late one night Claire hears a noise on the roof, goes upstairs and discovers an intruder in her daughters room trying to abduct her. Claire utters three words which would change her life forever, “Take [...]
In Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal, the home of thirteen-year-old Pinky is full of secrets. Having lost her mother in infancy and given up by her father, Pinky lives with her aunt and uncle and three boy cousins in Bombay, in what used to be a beautiful colonial home. Her aunt, having lost her own [...]
The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo is in the same magical vein as The Tale of Despereaux. Although the book doesn’t start out with the words “Once Upon a Time,” it certainly has that fairy tale feeling with the first line, “At the end of the century before last, in the market square of the [...]
