Tag Archives: friendship

Book Review: EllRay Jakes and the Beanstalk

The five-year-old little boy, whom I read to, wants to learn skateboarding, so his mother borrowed EllRay Jakes and the Beanstalk by Sally Warner for me to read to him. The book is illustrated by Brian Biggs. The boy’s mother figured that a story about a boy, who skateboards would inspire her son to learn… Read More »

Book Review: The Golden Nutmeg: A Soccer Adventure

Attention soccer moms and soccer dads! The children’s book, The Golden Nutmeg: A Soccer Adventure, by Christopher Tozier and illustrated by Jake Deibler, is a novel for soccer enthusiasts. If you and/or your child lives, breathes, and eats soccer, this book, as the title suggests, is a “soccer adventure.” In The Golden Nutmeg: A Soccer… Read More »

Book Review: The Silence of Our Friends

The Silence of Our Friends, by authors, Mark Long and Jim Demonakos with art by Nate Powell, is a graphic novel about real events that occurred during the Black American Civil Rights Era. When you read the Author’s Note at the end of the book, you will discover that one of the authors, Mark Long,… Read More »