Tuesday, Jan 27, 2009
From Carrie at Books & Movies, I have been presented the Your Blog is Fabulous Award.
The details of the award are simple… write five things that you are addicted to and then pass it on to five other blogs!
I get to be fabulous? Why? Well, according to Carrie:
“Sheri at A Novel Menagerie – she has funny posts, great memes, and has motivated me to start posting more about movies.”
Cool! Well, I simply love love love getting awards and, even more than that… love giving them! So… let’s start with rule #1… my addictions. Very personal topic, I might say!
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Obviously, I’m a book blog addict. The first step is admitting that I’m powerless over reading. But, don’t expect to see me asking God to relieve me of this addiction any time soon! I’m now officially a blogging addict… people can’t even find me to talk to me. I’m locked in my house, in my jammies, blogging my life away. My animals are happy to finally have me for company. Hee Hee.
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Music… are you kidding me….? Is there life without it? NO!
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My animals… as I type, two of my kitties are chasing each other around furniture, doing laps in the house, and full of swishing tails. They make me laugh out loud. My doggies are sleeping, but always lay beside me when I write. I LOVE THEM! Check out my slideshow on my right hand sidebar…you’ll meet them all.
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Fresh Brand Lip Balm – You can read about it in THIS POST. It’s like my crack. Worth every cent!
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Mani/Pedi’s at Happy Nails with Mili and Sophie. I am completely and totally addicted. I would sell my first born to get my bi-monthly visits (ok… so, I’m exaggerating a bit). There’s nothing like pretty hands and feet… especially when you’re TUBBO THE CLOWN, like me.
Now, there are other things I love love love… but simply cannot afford them. If I was rich, I’d be addicted to sushi, fine wine, trips to the day spa and laser therapy for my face. But, I’m a poor white child from the beach… have to be on a budget!
Now… for the juice on 5 other blogs. Who to pick? OK… I’m going to pass this award along to….
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Up Close & Personal With LadyTink - Jen’s blog has been on my subscribe feed since I first started blogging. I’m just fond of her blogs, in general. Her writing is cozy and safe… and just fun to visit. She’s so creative and always has changes going on in her blogs.
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Books by TJ Baff - Tamara is a lovely person. I feel like I’ve really made a connection with her. She does awesome book reviews and really shows an open and honest style in her writing. She is very truthful about who she is and where she’s at in her life. Her daughter’s a sweetie pie.
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Operation Read Bible - This is Becky’s new blog… I think she’s still running her book blog, too. Becky is one of the first people I met when I started blogging. Well, she’s very dedicated to this new site to focus on reading scripture and learning God’s word. Reading the New Testament is one of my new year’s resolutions… so, she’s keeping me on track! If you’re a Christian, you should really hop on over!
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The Blue Stocking Society - I am Jessica’s secret admirer, I think. I’m not even sure that she knows I read her blog. I do. I really like it. My only suggestion, Jessica… walk away from the challenges… you, my sweet, are TOTALLY addicted!
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Literate Housewife - Jennifer just opened up her brand new, spankin’ clean, and organzied new blog site! Congrats! It really enhances her already cool as heck blog! Go and say “hi.”
Well, congrats to all of you! I can’t wait to hear who you pass this along to! And, thanks again… Carrie!
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Tuesday, Jan 27, 2009
Author: Lisa See
Publisher: Random House
Website: www.lisasee.com
ISBN: 0-8129-6806-9
Pages: 269 Paperback
Type: Women’s Fiction
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The Review:
So, Lisa (Books On The Brain) and I were chatting about books when I saw her a couple of weeks ago. She mentioned to me how much she liked Lisa See’s books. I recalled her review on Peony in Love and had it in the back of my mind for a read this year. Lisa went on to tell me that she liked Snow Flower & The Secret Fan even BETTER than Peony, although she loved Peony. She strongly recommended the books.
Circa to my trip to the used book store. I did my friend Julie a favor by taking two boxes of books to the nearby used bookstore. They sorted through them and purchased what they liked. A $15 credit was issued. I looked for all sorts of books that I needed for my bookclub to buy with this credit. NO LUCK! Nothing I needed in stock. I cruised around aimlessly looking. I came across a “New Books” section. There, on the shelf at my eye-level, Snow Flower and Peony. Of course, the credit cannot be used on new books, so I ended up purchasing both. I didn’t care… Lisa is very never wrong when it comes to books. Plus, when I was purchasing them, the gal who worked there told me that she loved both books, especially Snow Flower. Well… hmmm… I’m intrigued. BTW: I got two Jodi Picoult books for Julie with the credit.
So, after I finished my last book, I was excited to start a new one and although Snow Flower was the newest to the “To Be Read” pile, it was on top. Sorry, books who had been longingly waiting for me… you’ll have to wait longer. I started Snow Flower and Lisa was right. I loved loved loved it. I’m seriously thinking that January is my best reading month EVER! I’ve read more great books this month than I can ever remember doing before. Now, back to Snow Flower… it’s a lovely, extremely well written novel that captures your heart and you are so attached to the main characters, Snow Flower and Lily, that you simply can’t put the book down. As so it was, I didn’t. I devoured this book and feel that I’m going to have to show some restraint not to start Peony right away!
Snow Flower and The Secret Fan is an epic tale of the true bonds of friendship and family between two women, Lily and Snow Flower. The story is told by Lily, who has survived an abnormally long life for her generation and has outlived nearly all of her relatives. It is only in the safety of that fact that she feels she is able to share her inner truth and her secrets. The story is one of the Chinese rural culture in the 19th century in which Lily was born in 1823 and tells her tale in approximately 1903. Lily shares her life story in which she reveals the culture, customs, and truth about their way of life. As a young girl, she is destined for an arranged marriage and her footbinding is a necessary preparation for such. Lily shares her memories of her “Milk Years” which are the days of her youth before the torture of the foot binding process. A matchmaker arrives at her home and informs her parents that 
she may have the feet, beauty and refinement required to have a special friendship called a laotong in addition to marriage to a well-positioned citizen. These are the times of dowries and customs surrounding the match-making in marriages that all the plans are discussed at her young age of 6. Her footbinding was to begin, along with her sisters’ at age 7.
The commitment to form the laotong relationship is also solidified. Lily is to form this friendship with a lovely girl named Snow Flower from a village much more prosperous than hers. She is better bred and from a wealthier family. However, other than that difference, all other requirements for the laotong are in place. Lily also prepares for this arranged relationship that is a sworn relationship for life that includes a contract and a fee. The matchmaker travels with the girls to a festival for them to connect and write their contract in addition to the temple for prayer and meditation. Lily and Snow Flower do find this connection and their life-long relationship commences.
The book takes the reader through Lily’s lifetime including the tormented days of the footbinding process (see article and photos below). I discovered in reading this novel that one in every ten girls died from this process. That’s just insane to me, however I understand that all cultures are different and times were much different. Women, at that time, held no value… I suppose, other than for breeding. The reader is able to experience all of the rites of passage in these girls’ lives including their marriages and childbearing years. Lily and Snow Flower communicate over the years via writing nu shu, a secret women’s language. The majority of the important writing is conducted in poems on a fan that they share. Snow Flower has penned them as a pair of Mandarin Ducks. (Aren’t they beautiful?).
I could write and write about the intense nature of this story, the poetic form in which it was written, and the intricate storyline that it carries. But, you will discover that for yourself when you treat yourself and pick yourself up a copy… a little love Valentine JUST FOR YOU. It will remind you of the deep love within a woman.. for her husband, her life-long best friend, and her children. It will reaffirm your gratefulness for the ability to live in a world in which women have rights to live the life they choose to. It will make you glad for modern medicine and the ability we have to live a life past the age of 40!
The other thing that I found highly respectable about Lisa See is that she went to the villages in China and actually spoke to the families and the women about this time in history. She saw and heard this information first hand and relayed it to the readers in utter perfection. I personally thank her for doing that as I find the book reflects such historical accuracy in addition to the haunting tale.
Here is an article (with photos) about the footbinding that occurred in China. You will be shocked.
Footbinding: From Status Symbol to Subjugation
by Louisa Lim
Wealthy Chinese women with bound feet pose for a photo, circa 1900-1920. Underwood & Underwood/Corbis
Legend has it that the origins of footbinding go back as far as the Shang dynasty (1700-1027 B.C.). The Shang Empress had a clubfoot, so she demanded that footbinding be made compulsory in the court.
But historical records from the Song dynasty (960-1279 A.D.) date footbinding as beginning during the reign of Li Yu, who ruled over one region of China between 961-975. It is said his heart was captured by a concubine, Yao Niang, a talented dancer who bound her feet to suggest the shape of a new moon and performed a “lotus dance.”
During subsequent dynasties, footbinding became more popular and spread from court circles to the wealthy. Eventually, it moved from the cities to the countryside, where young girls realized that binding their feet could be their passport to social mobility and increased wealth.
When the Manchu nobility came to power in 1644, they tried to ban the practice, but with little success. The first anti-footbinding committee was formed in Shanghai by a British priest in 1874.
But the practice wasn’t outlawed until 1912, when the Qing dynasty had already been toppled by a revolution. Beginning in 1915, government inspectors could levy fines on those who continued to bind their feet. But despite these measures, footbinding still continued in various parts of the country.
A year after the Communists came to power in 1949, they too issued their own ban on footbinding. According to the American author William Rossi, who wrote The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe, 40 percent to 50 percent of Chinese women had bound feet in the 19th century. For the upper classes, the figure was almost 100 percent.
Some estimate that as many as 2 billion Chinese women broke and bound their feet to attain this agonizing ideal of physical perfection. Author Yang Yang says that women with tiny feet were a status symbol who would bring honor upon the entire clan by their appearance.
“Some married women with bound feet would even get up in the middle of the night to start their toilette, just to ensure they would look good in daytime,” he says.
In Liuyicun, the practice persisted so long because of the village’s economic prosperity — and its inhabitants’ desire for obvious wealth signifiers, like daughters with bound feet.
Some scholars say footbinding deepened female subjugation by making women more dependent on their men folk, restricting their movements and enforcing their chastity, since women with bound feet were physically incapable of venturing far from their homes.
Certainly the “three-inch golden lotuses” were seen as the ultimate erogenous zone, with Qing dynasty pornographic books listing 48 different ways of playing with women’s bound feet.
For those unfortunate women who paid the ultimate price for beauty, there was little choice involved.
Liuyicun resident Wang Lifen, 79, describes her own attitude as a child, saying, “I didn’t want to bind my feet, but the whole village told me that I had to. So I did.”
And 86-year-old Zhou Guizhen says, “At that time everybody had bound feet. If you didn’t, you’d only be able to marry a tribesman from an ethnic minority.”
These women disfigured their feet to guarantee their own future, but according to Yang Yang, this act ultimately consigned them to tragic lives. Most of Liuyicun’s bound-feet women were forced to perform hard physical labor in the late 1950s, digging reservoirs, for example — work which was punishing enough for ordinary women, but agonizing for those with tiny, misshapen feet.
Their families also suffered food shortages as they were often unable to fulfill their production quotas at work, or walk into the mountains to pick vegetables and fruit like other mothers.
“Their tiny feet sealed their tragic fates,” Yang says.
You Can Meet Lisa See…
I found on her website that she has some book signings coming up that are actually do-able for me living here in California. If you are nearby any of these locations and a fan… you’ll be in for a treat…. Lisa, want to go to Buena Park?
January 29
9:15 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Talk, and signing
Shadelands Art Center
111 N. Wiget Lane
Walnut Creek, CA
Pre-register online
Event details & information contact Margaret Garms at megarms94618@yahoo.com
February 8, 2009
11:30 a.m.
Lunch, talk, and signing
Fundraiser for the Fullerton Public Library
Los Coyotes Country Club
8888 Los Coyotes Dr.
Buena Park, CA.
For information: 714- 738-3366
February 28
11:30 to 2:00
Meet the Authors Luncheon
Pacific Golf and Country Club
200 La Plata
San Clemente, CA
For information call Sue Peltz at 949-361-5789
or Rachael Mitchell at 949-492-1913
March 14, 2009
10:00 a.m. -1p.m.
American Association of University Women
Alhambra-San Gabriel Branch Presents
Literary Brunch and Book Signing
Featuring Lisa See
Church of the Good Shepherd, United Methodist Church
Jordan Hall, 400 W. Duarte Rd.
Arcadia, CA
For information: 626-570-9784
March 21, 2009
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m
Fundraiser Brunch
Delta Nu Chapter of the
Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Presents
Literary Brunch and Book Signing
Covina Woman’s Club
128 S. San Jose
Covina, CA
For information and tickets call:
Diane at (626) 335-5926 or
Jackie at (626) 334-9892
April 25-25
L.A. Times Book Festival
UCLA campus
Westwood, CA
Next on My Lisa See List:
On Sher’s “Out of 10 Scale:”
In rating this book in the genre: Women’s Fiction/Historical Fiction, I would rate this book an 10 out of 10! This book was remarkable to me in every way. I only hope that it is eventually made into a movie, because it would make an amazing one. Like I said above, take my advice… treat yourself to a copy of this book if you haven’t already read it. Peony, in some ways, is a sequel…(just found out… not a sequel like I assumed) so, you might as well grab them both. Lisa is coming out with a new book in May 2009 published by Random House, Shanghai Girls. I’m very much looking forward to it!
Okay, Lisa… we’re off to meet Lisa See! I’m hooked!
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Monday, Jan 26, 2009
Win A $25 eGift Certificate to
Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com
or Borders.com to purchase those
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It’s Bloggy GiveAWay Carnival Week. In addition to the 3 book giveaways that I’m having this week that are in the carnival, I’m throwing in THE GRAND PRZE….. a $25 gift certificate plus a BookCharmer from www.BookCharming.com.
Now, if you are new to visiting my site… BookCharmers are the MOST AWESOME bookmarks there are! You will fall madly in love with them and never use another! They make the BEST TEACHER GIFTS, too! They come wrapped up in a sweet little package… and are that perfect gift. I mean… what teacher needs more scented lotion and candles? No No No…. they need a beautiful bookmark because they are the readers of the world! And, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner.
So… you can win the gift certificate and shop at www.BookCharming.com for your favorite BookCharmer… and viola… a little self-pampering is coming your way (either that or a great gift).
Here’s how you win…
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Monday, Jan 26, 2009
Author: Ingrid E. Cummings
Publisher: HCI (Health Communications, Inc.)
Website: www.thevigorousmind.com
ISBN #: 0-7573-0698-5
978-0-7573-0698-3
Pages: 317 Paperback
Type: Self-Help/Learning/Non-Fiction
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The Summary:
The Vigorous Mind proposes that the way to health and happiness is to “cross-train your brain” by intentionally diversifying the portfolio of your activities. Using historical as well as contemporary “Renaissance people” as inspiration, the book argues for a return to a generalist gestalt during the hours of the day when we’re not pursuing ever-narrower career specialties. With a distinctive approach to time management, The Vigorous Mind puts a contemporary spin on what it meant to be “well rounded,” a notion that sounds delightfully quaint today.
The book taps into one of today’s hottest trends: The application of neuroscience to everyday brain health. Scientists are proving that strategically pursuing a broad spectrum of sometimes-counterintuitive activities can actually strengthen your brain and make you better at everything you undertake.
The secret is consistent, incremental “baby steps,” in the spirit of the newly popular Japanese belief system called Kaizen. Kaizen is an ancient Japanese Zen philosophy that advocates taking small, even trivial steps to accomplish large goals. The intention is for the reader to make accelerative progress toward their cross-training goals by committing just 20 minutes of concentrated attention per day (what the author calls “Triumph in Twenty”) applied to any topic of their choice.
Ingrid Cummings makes the case that through knowledge of seemingly unrelated fields and interests, readers can fortify themselves against burn-out, become more fulfilled, better at their jobs, and more creative — in short, develop a truly vigorous mind.
The Review:
It is my pleasure to be a part of TLC Books Tours review of The Vigorous Mind. This book is VERY well-researched and thought-out. Cummings has obviously spent considerable time on her theory, reading works of great minds, studying history, and really immersing herself in the heart of the matter! I applaud her for her excellence in writing, as its eloquence and precision is to be admired.
As aforementioned in the summary, this book really addresses the benefits of becoming more diverse in your interests and education. She gives great examples of how to learn, a little bit each day, to enhance your overall awareness and life. In essence, she provides instructions for cross-training your mind to become more than just a specialist at one thing. Now, the book does address that it is necessary for many of us to be “super-specialists” in our career fields. But, what she argues for is the ability to expand your horizons and know a little bit about much rather than a lot about one thing. She provides good examples and training exercises within the book to get you on a path of learning and expanding.
This book really came at a time for me when I have just undergone tremendous change. It reassured me of what I may be doing right… and gave some training suggestions for further growth. I recommend this book for people who are looking for some expansion and challenge in their lives… to stretch out that brain just a bit (or, a lot) and really step out of their comfort zone. And, if that’s not where you’re at in your life, Cummings suggests you can still do small and simple things. Cummings recommends subscribing to blogs/RSS posts for the word of the day or news of the day (or, something similar)… just to keep growing that brain! I can see no argument to her suggestion as I believe we all have room to grow and are never done learning. After all, what’s the worst thing that could happen? We’d become better conversationalists and more well-rounded people!
Some of Cumming’s suggested sources:
Books
Book Discussion Clubs
eBooks
Magazines
Newspapers
The Internet
Online Databases
BLOGS
Electronic mailing lists, or e-lists
Chat groups
Coaches
Classes
Online/televised classes
The buddy system
Mastermind groups
DVDs/Videos
Books on tape
Conferences & conventions
Lectures, symposia & public events
Notable Quotes:
“Aristotle concluded that happiness is action. Dressed out a little further: happiness is participation in something that produces fulfillment.”
“We’ll never get around stress, but it’s time to start dealing with a higher quality of stress in our lives: the generative kind, not the debilitating kind.”
“If you think that you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.”
“Kaizen is the fine art of cutting grand goals down to size-the amazing power of taking one step at a time, putting one foot in front of the other. This notion is sophisticated and elegant in its simplicity, yet it’s been neglected. We live in a fast-paced culture, and we want to rush to get to the finish-quickly. There’s something in us that resists the slow and steady, but slow-and-steady progress is how you develop a vigorous mind. It’s how you accomplish any goal for that matter.”
(In discussing practicing something new) “… just twenty minutes a day for 3 days a week.”
“I live each day as if it were my last. Life in all its moments is so full of glory… the staggering glory of being alive.” – Helen Keller
“There will only be one of you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.” -Anonymous
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -Anais Nin, Author
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life… I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on a purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.” – Joseph Campbell, Author & Mythology Scholar
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” -William Blake, Artist & Poet
On Sher’s “Out of 10 Scale:”
In rating this book in the genre: Self-Help/Learning, I would rate this book a 7 out of 10. Again, the book is very well written and researched. There are hundreds of inspiring quotes scattered throughout the book. In addition, Cummings does a very good job at backing her theories with the data you need to prove that what she recommends will work. The rating for me most likely comes from where I am at, personally, in my life. I’ve done so much expansion and growing of late that, to me, I felt that I was already there where Cummings wanted me to go. However, the book is a keeper because I never know when I will need that boost to get me motivated to stretch myself once again!
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Monday, Jan 26, 2009
I’ve been subscribing to the NY Times Sunday Edition on-line… and, I have been reviewing the “Best Seller’s List” every week. I must be such a newbie, because I don’t know some things. First, here’s this week’s list AND MY QUESTIONS ARE IN RED!
HARDCOVER FICTION
Top 5 at a Glance
1. PLUM SPOOKY, by Janet Evanovich
2. THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer
3. BLACK OPS, by W. E.B. Griffin
4. MOUNTING FEARS, by Stuart Woods
5. THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski
Complete Hardcover Fiction List »
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
Top 5 at a Glance
1. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell
2. GUILTY, by Ann Coulter
3. DEWEY, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
4. TOO FAT TO FISH, by Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza
5. AMERICAN LION, by Jon Meacham
Complete Hardcover Nonfiction List »
PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRADE FICTION AND MASS-MARKET FICTION?
HAS ANYBODY READ THE SHACK AND LIKED IT?
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE SHACK, by William P. Young
2. SUNDAYS AT TIFFANY’S, by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
3. REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, by Richard Yates
4. THE READER, by Bernhard Schlink
5. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini
Complete Paperback Trade Fiction List »
PAPERBACK MASS-MARKET FICTION
Top 5 at a Glance
1. REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, by Richard Yates
2. THE APPEAL, by John Grisham
3. PLUM LUCKY, by Janet Evanovich
4. THE FIRST PATIENT, by Michael Palmer
5. MARRIED IN SEATTLE, by Debbie Macomber
Complete Paperback Mass-Market Fiction List »
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
Top 5 at a Glance
1. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, by Barack Obama
2. MARLEY & ME, by John Grogan
3. THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama
4. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
5. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max
Complete Paperback Nonfiction List »
HARDCOVER ADVICE DOES RELIGIOUS BOOKS FALL UNDER THIS CATEGORY, OR NON-FICTION?
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE LAST LECTURE, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
2. THE POWER OF SOUL, by Zhi Gang Sha
3. FLAT BELLY DIET!, by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass
4. THE ULTRAMIND SOLUTION, by Mark Hyman
5. THE SECRET, by Rhonda Byrne
Complete Hardcover Advice List »
PAPERBACK ADVICE
Top 5 at a Glance
1. SUZE ORMAN’S 2009 ACTION PLAN, by Suze Orman
2. BROKEN OPEN, by Elizabeth Lesser
3. TWILIGHT, by Mark Cotta Vaz
4. SKINNY BITCH, by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
5. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
Complete Paperback Advice List »
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Top 5 at a Glance
1. BARACK OBAMA: SON OF PROMISE, CHILD OF HOPE, by Nikki Grimes
2. WABI SABI, by Mark Reibstein
3. BARACK, by Jonah Winter
4. GALLOP!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder
5. NAKED MOLE RAT GETS DRESSED, written and illustrated by Mo Willems
Thanks, Friends…. I’m a slow poke to understanding all the “lingo.”
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