What could be fancier than Christmas? Presents with elegant wrapping paper, festive decorations, Christmas cookies with sprinkles—and who could forget the tree? After all, there is no such thing as too much tinsel. Ooh la la!
Best Friends James (a boy) print and Marvin (a beetle) are separated for a week while James goes on vacation. Marvin has to make do with his irritating cousin, Elaine
A little girl sales her raft across the sea of words, arriving at the house of a small boy and calling him away on an adventure.
As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child, but as black women. With a poet’s eye, she celebrates her daughter’s acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world around her. At the same time history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers’ and investors’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive, yet threatening, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods.
This book has me conflicted... I mean, I absolutely love it. It may be my favorite childrens book of all time... but it is just soooo sad at the end! Sad in a good way, the sort of sobbing that you do at the end of a extremely touching movie or novel. There are no words to describe the love poured into this novel. Don't be fooled by the cover, this story is beyond amazing. The love of a boy and his mother...
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