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Ebook Review- The Adventures of Leaf Man

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The Adventures of Leaf Man
by Rebecca Shelly
3 pages
Published by
Wonder Realms  Books
June 28, 2011
ISBN 13: 9781465738295
Book Source: bought
5 Stars

Product Overview by Amazon: Created by Fairy Magic, Leaf Man only has one day to live. He dreams of all the adventures he can have, but instead spends his short time saving the life of a child. In so doing, he earns a sweet kind of immortality.

Mary’s Review: This is a very short eBook story that in fact reminds us of what a true friend really is.  Leaf Man who has the opportunity to do something for himself but sacrifices his time to do something for a total stranger instead.  As a result the reward for him in the end is priceless. I would recommend this book to ages 4-8, although all of us could learn something from Leaf Man.
  

About The Author: Rebecca Shelley loves adventuring and spent a lot of time in her youth doing things like dog sledding, hiking, camping, and horseback riding. She has a special fondness for dragons and fairies and wrote her first book in Elementary School. To learn more, visit her website at http://www.rebeccashelley.com/.

Book Review- This is My Wish for You

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This Is My Wish For You
Charles Livingston Snell (Author), Harold Darling (Compiler)
Hardcover, 38 pages
Published June 1, 1993
by Blue Lantern Press
ISBN 096211314X
5 stars

Book Summary From Amazon: This a book created to be given. At its center is a poem by Charles Snell which was written for and published in, 1914 as a small gift book. In it the giver, in a series of concrete images, extends the recipient many good wishes. In our volume, Snell’s words are presented within borders made by Daniel Maclise for a book entitled Moore’s Irish Melodies, published in 1846.


We have selected images to accompany each wish. These are made by a great variety of painters and illustrators, and range over more than 150 years. This Is My Wish for You is in the tradition of ancient blessings, in which one tries, through the power of language, to throw a mantle of protection and beneficence over the receiver. This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title

Mary’s Review: This is the most amazing book. If I could hang it on the wall, I would. The illustrations are absolutely beautiful and the blessing is wonderful. My favorite illustrations are “the glories of song. However, from beginning to end this is truly a book that needs to be read and shared with every one of all ages.

About The Author: Charles Livingston Snell was one of a group of talented authors and artists who created books for the P.F. Volland Company in the first two decades of our century. This publishing house specialized in gift and children’s books and was very successful in creating distinctive books with wide appeal. Harold Darling is a specialist in the power and resonance of printed images. He is especially interested in old children’s books, paintings by obscure artists and printed ephemera. His published books include and Bon Voyage: Souvenirs of the Golden Age of Travel

Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) was a successful historical and portrait painter. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1840. From 1830 onward he emphasized book illustration. He drew meticulously with a lithographic pen. Among his best known books are: Fairy Legends (1826), Dickens’ A Cricket on the Hearth (1845), Mason’s Tennyson (1857).

Book Review- Tell Me Again About The Night I Was Born

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Tell Me Again About The Night I Was Born
Paperback, 40 pages
Published August 29th 2000
by HarperTrophy
ISBN 0064435814
Book source: bought
4 stars

Product Description from Amazon: Tell me again about the night I was born.Tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents. Tell me again about the first time you held me in your arms.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, author and illustrator of the best-selling When I Was Little: A Four Year Old’s Memoir of Her Youth, have joined together again to create a fresh new picture book for every parent and every child. In asking her parents to tell her again about the night of her birth, a young girl shows that it is a cherished tale she knows by heart.

Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born is a unique, exuberant story about adoption and about the importance of a loving family.

A young girl asks her parents to tell her again the cherished family story of her birth and adoption.

Mary’s Review: Where to begin?

“Tell Me Again” is a beautiful story with the cutest illustrations of a little girl asking her mother to tell her every detail of the night she was born knowing she is special because she is adopted.   It brought  back so many memories of the nights my own children were born and the stories I used to tell them and it made me stop and wonder if the grandson that was put up for adoption 11 years ago asks to be told of the night he was born.

I recommend this book for ages 4-8 years of age.
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About the Author:  Jamie Lee Curtis is mommy to Annie and Tom. Her husband, Christopher Guest, hangs her moon by making her laugh out loud daily. She hangs out in her home with friends and family and four-legged creatures, and although she doesn’t look good in one, she hangs her hat in Southern California.

Learn more on the Harper Collins book page here.