Children's Books
Little Humans – Brandon Stanton
Brandon Stanton started off just as a guy with a camera in New York. He started asking people their stories. They shared them. He shared them with the world. Humans of New York has become […]
Month: December 2020
Children's Books
The World Needs Who You Were Made To Be – Joanna Gaines
Identity formation begins even before birth, as children absorb who they are from those around them. In the first few hours after birth, they can tell one smell from another, one voice from another, one […]
Children's Books
Deborah and the Very Big Battle – Tim Thornborough
The story of Deborah is beautiful, complex, and nuanced. Its story has been misused and abused, with Deborah being portrayed as only in her position because there were no competent men, with Barak being portrayed […]
Children's Books
Mexique – Maria Jose Ferrada
I’ve started to write this paragraph three times and each time end up erasing it out of fear that I’ve not captured the essence of this book. Mexique is a children’s book, but it’s more […]
Children's Books
The Bear and the Duck – May Angeli
A lot of modern children’s books are brightly, flashy, rhyming, and intended to be read over and over and over again to the point of annoyance. Looking back to older children’s books, there seems to […]
Children's Books
Talking is Not My Thing – Rose Robbins
Many children who have speech or language delays are fully able to nonverbally communicate and understand verbal instruction. One of the best things you can do for a nonverbal child to help develop their language […]
Children's Books
Night Wishes – ed. Lee Bennett Hopkins
As the parent of two young children (ages 3 and 1), I read a lot of children’s books. Like. A lot. Sometimes the same book over and over and over twelve times a day. Who […]
Children's Books
Moses and the Very Big Rescue – Tim Thornborough
My three-year-old loves spaceships. Why is this relevant to a review of a book about Moses and the Very Big Rescue? Because counting down to blast-off is his absolute favorite. I would guess that he […]
Non-Fiction
A Chronicle of Grief: Finding Life After Traumatic Loss – Mel Lawrenz
After pastor and author Mel Lawrenz lost his beloved adult daughter to a traumatic medical event, he began to post some of his reflections about grief on Facebook. The reception there led him to contemplate […]
Non-Fiction
Companions in the Darkness: Seven Saints Who Struggled with Depression and Doubt – Diana Gruver
Companions in the Darkness shares biographical sketches of seven different faithful Christians who endured long and recurrent periods of depression. The author, Diana Gruver, has struggled with depression herself, but even though she occasionally mentions general […]