Novel-in-Verse Reading Challenge
Crossing Stones by Helen Frost: A Suffragette’s Sparkling Pathways to Self
I knew when I read this several months back that I had to find a way to feature this book on our site. Helen Frost has been a favorite ever since I discovered some of her award-winning poetry for our novels-in-verse theme last November to first weeks of January (see my review of Hidden here). […]
Nonfiction Monday: Becoming Billie Holiday
As we are about to end our bimonthly theme on Girl Power and Women’s Wiles, we thought that it would be fitting to feature one of our all-time favorite singers, Billie Holiday, through her story written in verse by Carole Boston Weatherford and artwork by Floyd Cooper. Nonfiction Monday is hosted this week by The […]
Wild about Words: Margarita Engle’s The Wild Book
I received this beautiful book from Margarita’s Publisher December of last year and I deliberately postponed writing my review until now that we are celebrating women’s voices and girl power for our current bimonthly theme. Word Blindness and Words that won’t Keep Still. As a clinician, I am familiar with dyslexia and the struggles that […]
Thalia Chaltas’ Because I am Furniture
I learned about Thalia Chaltas’ debut novel from our Featured Storyteller last November/December – Holly Thompson. When I found the book in our library, I had some reservations about borrowing it because it was quite thick – and I knew my limitations when it comes to reading, particularly as the semester is also starting in […]
