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The Dandelion Seed’s Big Dream

September 15th, 2014 · No Comments · Books

Review By JANE COCO COWLES This tenacious little seed never gives up hope despite its bumpy path in life. The Dandelion Seed’s Big Dream (received as a review copy from the publisher) sends an inspiring message – with a little determination dreams can come true. This dandelion seed is also accepting of all the challenges in […]

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Hobbes Goes Home

August 28th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Last year, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting author Tami Crupi Zeman, wife of Vermont radio personality Bruce Zeman, Jr. at the National Animal Rights Conference in DC. The animal-welfare activist pair had written a book, Hobbes Goes Home, about Mr. Zeman’s canine co-star and his path from a […]

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A Boy and His Jaguar

August 1st, 2014 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN A Boy and His Jaguar is one of the sweetest, most honest, and fragile works of children’s literature I’ve come across in a while. Rabinowitz candidly, yet innocently paints us a picture of his young life as a stutterer (“people ignore or misunderstand or hurt me”) and the only times […]

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I Love You Just Enough

March 26th, 2014 · No Comments · Books

Review By HOMA WOODRUM Though billed as the fifth book in the “Hazel Ridge Farm” series, I Love You Just Enough is a great standalone picture book. Written by a husband and wife team, Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen (words) and Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen (painted illustrations), it tells the story of a young girl named Heather […]

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