Review by Wynn Godbold Before reading Bonds of Blood and Spirit: Loyalties, by Wendi Kelly and Deborah Dorchak, I had no idea what a shape shifter was. Now, I’m up to speed and waiting for the next edition in the series. You’re not sure what I mean by shape shifter? Well, there’s only one solution [...]
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Kaleidoscope by Salina Yoon
Review by Wynn Godbold Kaleidoscope is a delightful source of enjoyment for adults to share with their young folks. My son, Cooper who is eleven years old, loves to open the boxes of books that come to our door for review. Sometimes he sticks with me and other times he loses interest quickly and moves [...]
The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve By Peg Tyre
Peg Tyre is also the author of the New York Times Bestseller The Trouble with Boys Review by Wynn Godbold A+ rating for this one folks! This is a no non-sense down to the facts book written in simple language for parents that also speaks to educators. I am a parent, an educator, and a [...]
Kristin Hannah’s “Home Front”: What Happens When a Wife and Mother Goes to War
Kristin Hannah never shies away from complex emotional situations in her novels, but her most recent book, Home Front, ventures into new and important territory as she explores a marriage tested by the demands of a nation at war. Jolene Zarkades is an Army Black Hawk helicopter pilot whose marriage to the workaholic attorney Michael [...]
Daughter of Smoke and Bone By Laini Taylor
Review by Wynn Godbold I wasn’t quite sure of what I was beginning when I picked up Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone. While I am quite the fan of Harry Potter, I don’t typically hold much regard for tales that involve “other” worlds, beings with wings, and the fantasy of magic. Having read [...]
Winter Town
Every winter, seventeen year old Evan Owens looks forward to being reunited with Lucy, his best friend from childhood, who moved away following her parents divorce. But this year things are different because Lucy is different, with choppy black hair, a stud in her nose, and an angry, disaffected scowl on her face. Although Evan is [...]
Food For Thought
During the winter holidays, my thoughts turn to food, a natural correlation with the harvest season, the American Thanksgiving holiday, and the sumptuous family gatherings of Christmas and Hannukah. I consider myself an adequate, but somewhat utilitarian, cook. If a recipe has more than a dozen ingredients or steps, my eyes tend to glaze over [...]
The Bird Sisters, A Review and Giveaway
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ~Langston Hughes The Bird Sisters, Rebecca Rasmussen’s debut novel, explores the life and relationship between two sisters living in the small town of Spring Green, Wisconsin, where Rasmussen herself grew up on a family farm much like the [...]
Easy Beauty: Peek-A-Boos Ponytail Hats by Elizabeth Rago
Alright, I’ll admit it. I used to be high maintenance when it came to fashion. “Just say no to flats” was a deep rooted mantra right next to “Never leave the house without eyeliner” and “If my bangs are off-kilter, I will have a bad day”. Life, and let’s get specific, children, tend to change [...]
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star By Jerry Pinkney (Review by Wynn Godbold)
Who doesn’t love sharing a gentle favorite with a small child? Jerry Pinkney’s rendition of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star allows readers to do just that. I shared this book with my 11 year old son, not quite the small child you would imagine sharing this beautifully illustrated classic with, but to the delight of both [...]
Embracing Emerging Authors
I’ve always enjoyed shopping at Target, and recently they’ve given me another reason to love them. It’s their Emerging Authors series, which features new authors and provides them with a platform for selling their books. Last summer, The Stuff That Never Happened, by Maddie Dawson, was a Target Emerging Author pick. Dawson (who also writes under her [...]
Thrill Reads
I’ll be honest – I usually like to play it safe with my reading material. But if there’s ever a good time to settle in with a suspense novel or thriller, it’s the month of October, when darkness falls early and chill winds rip leaves from the trees. These are a few of the books [...]
The Things We Cherished
Historical novel. Mystery. Love story . The Things We Cherished, by Pam Jenoff, deftly merges these genres together to create an intriguing story, one that will keep you turning pages until you’ve reached its surprising and heart-rending conclusion. The novel spans decades, generations, and continents, as it tells the story of Charlotte Gold and Jack [...]
Substitute Creacher (A Review by Wynn Godbold)
Every child’s life will contain a day or two when a substitute teacher shows up in his/her classroom. For the children of Ms. Jenkins’s class, this happened in October. But the substitute that arrived was a creacher- nonetheless, a teacher of many lessons. In Chris Gall’s twist on the substitute that comes to school, kids [...]
What I Read This Summer
Although the calendar tells me differently, I’m one of those people who consider September the start of a New Year. Chalk it up to almost 50 years of academic life – when I wasn’t attending school, I was working in one, and September always marked the beginning of new schedules, classes, and challenges. So it [...]
Whooo Loves You (Review by Wynn Godbold)
Today I read a lovely “lift-the-flap” book, Whooo loves you?, by Sandra Magsamen. It is bright in color with a playfully decorative style. It begins with, “The birds on the clothesline sing…(lift-the-flap to reveal) You’re my little tweetheart, your’re my little tweetheart” and ends with the reader saying, “I love you! I love you!” I [...]
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Kaleidoscope by Salina Yoon
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