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Do you remember

DO YOU REMEMBER? written and illustrated by Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith’s DO YOU REMEMBER? has an emotional strength that belies its quiet tone as...
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Untangling: Christmas and Alzheimer’s (Chapter 31)

Christmas is a terrible pairing with Alzheimer’s as this explains. If you want to hear me...
Greeking Out

GREEKING OUT: EPIC RETELLINGS OF CLASSIC GREEK MYTHS written by Kenny Curtis and Jillian Hughes and illustrated by Javier Espila

Reading aloud with a child can make you fall in love with a book and...
Mother, Nature

 MOTHER, NATURE: A 5,000 MILE JOURNEY TO DISCOVER IF A MOTHER AND SON CAN SURVIVE THEIR DIFFERENCES by Jedidiah Jenkins

Jedidiah Jenkins’ MOTHER, NATURE: A 5,000 MILE JOURNEY TO DISCOVER IF A MOTHER AND SON...
What if One Day

WHAT IF ONE DAY written and illustrated by Bruce Handy

Bruce Handy’s WHAT IF ONE DAY uses imaginative language to encourage talking about changes on...
I'm Hungry!

I’M HUNGRY! written and illustrated by Elise Gravel

Elise Gravel humor reaches all ages as she shows in I’M HUNGRY! The engaging little...
Lonely Bird

LONELY BIRD written and illustrated by Ruth Whiting

A scrap of paper emerges as a full blown powerful feeling character in Ruth Whiting’s...
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Untangling: New Kinds of Accidents (Chapter 30)

My mother’s flagging mental state was revealed with a car accident but this chapter recounts...
The North Wind and the Sun

THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN written and illustrated by Philip Stead

.Philip Stead enhances Aesop in a way that may speak more strongly to adults than...
To Free The Captives

 TO FREE THE CAPTIVES: A PLEA FOR THE AMERICAN SOUL by Tracy K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith’s TO FREE THE CAPTIVES:A PLEA FOR THE AMERICAN SOUL combines lyricism, vulnerability...