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All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings by Gayle Boss & Illustrated by David G. Klein
Each chapter of ALL CREATION WAITS is a day of Advent, so there are 25 chapters; each chapter focuses on an animal or insect and how each prepares for winter and survives. The author encourages the reader to learn more about God through each creature. I learned a...
Christmas Season Paperbacks
The Little Drummer Boy by Ezra Jack Keats The reader is in for a sweet treat with this precious picture book, which includes the song sheet music at the back of the book, “The Little Drummer Boy” with words and music by Katherine Doris, Henry Onorati and Harry...
Books to Read as Autumn Ends
With pumpkin bread baking in the oven and the cozy aroma of pumpkin spice filling every room of the house, I was in the mood for some fall reads as Autumn comes to an end. Jeb Scarecrow’s Pumpkin Patch written and illustrated by Jana Dillon is a picture book with...
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Riley Sager has successfully written another thriller novel that I found difficult to put down! Home Before Dark was on the “New York Times Best Seller List” in July of 2020 and I understand how it got there. The first person narrative of the story splits, flipping...
Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
This young adult biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, includes illustrations with hauntingly gorgeous black and white watercolor paintings that have a charcoal appearance and complement the text written in verse. The author, who is also the artist,...
Halloween Reads
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Disney Classic), which was adapted by Cara J. Stevens and illustrated by Golden Books is a classic tale of Disney’s version of “The Legend of Sleep Hollow”. The original shorty story by Washington Irving is much longer and has a lot more...