March is Women’s History Month. As in Black American History Month and Native American Heritage Month, libraries across the United States will feature specialized reading lists, lectures, exhibits, workshops, and cultural events about women this month. Reading a book about women or by a woman, in particular, may not be a part of one’s reading… Read More »
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 »
Goodnight Moon, written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd, is a classic children’s picture book. This is a bedtime story. Your local library may have multiple copies of it. In Goodnight Moon, the little bunny child in bed is looking around at all of the inanimate and animate objects, it can see… Read More »
Hug Machine is a picture book, written and illustrated by Scott Campbell. The children’s book is about a little boy, who loves to give hugs. This is a silly book that should make your child smile. The boy can hug almost everything. People are not the only things that this little boy hugs throughout the… Read More »
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 »
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is a classic children’s book. This is a picture book and it is easy to read. Having finally read it as an adult, I have no idea why this book is so celebrated. Where the Wild Things Are is about a boy, who was sent to bed… Read More »
Commercials are designed in such a way to make us want things we don’t really need. We unwittingly become brainwashed into believing that the commercials’ products will make us cool, popular, happy, successful, glamorous, famous, or attractive to others. Commercials make us believe their products will solve our problems. When you read Thomas E. Woods’… Read More »
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is a historic classic from the 17th century. Your high school or college history textbook may have cited it as being culturally and historically significant to English colonists for United States history, but your textbook may not have elaborated why this particular work of literature was significant to Anglo-American… Read More »
Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham is about a criminal attorney, Sebastian Rudd, who hangs out with criminals when he is not representing clients, who are charged with or accused of a crime. There are several plots within this book. Rogue Lawyer is separated into six parts, each with multiple chapters. The story is told in… Read More »
My Pen by Christopher Myers is a children’s picture book that encourages readers to use their imaginations. The story celebrates the colloquial “power of the pen.” The drawings of people are realistic and amazing. This is a great book for parents of young artists and teachers, who want to read a book as inspiration to… Read More »