Children often go through many unfortunate changes in their young lives. Foster care is something that needs to be more carefully monitored and protecting the lives of these innocent children paramount. What happens when a young child’s parents can’t get along and the mother takes the youngest for a short…
Are you steeped in depression? Feeling sad, but don’t know why? Plunged into a seemingly endless grief? What if you met someone whose greatest joy in life (yes, greatest joy) is to take you gently by the hand and lead you step by step into a lighter place, a life…
Reviewer’s Choice Float: A Guide to Letting Go Aimee L. Ruland, author Carl R. Anderson, illustrator Loving Healing Press 5145 Pontiac Trail, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 www.lovinghealing.com 9781615994601, $26.95, HC, 34pp, www.amazon.com “Float: A Guide to Letting Go” is a picture book approach to encouraging children to process their emotions…
The Picturebook Shelf Emma Lou the Yorkie Poo Kim Larkins Loving Healing Press 5145 Pontiac Trail, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 www.lovinghealing.com 9781615994571, $26.95, HC, 32pp, www.amazon.com Written and illustrated by Kim Larkins, Emma Lou the Yorkie Poo: Breathing in the Calm is the story of Emma Lou, the Yorkie Poo…
Nancy Lorraine’s Bookshelf Please Explain “Time Out” to Me! Laurie Zelinger, Ph.D. and Fred Zelinger, Ph.D Loving Healing Press 5145 Pontiac Trail, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 www.LHPress.com 9781615994151, $17.95 PB, $5.95 Kindle, 34pp 9781615994168, $27.95, HC, 34pp, www.amazon.com ‘Please Explain ‘Time Out’ To Me : Story for Children and Do-It-Yourself…
Kerry Magro’s blog this week featured Sherry Quan Lee’s book And You Can Love Me! a story for everyone who loves someone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) First, the book recognizes nonverbal autism. This is a representation we don’t have enough of in our entertainment industry today. As Sherry quotes…
LOGAN AND LUNA FIND THE MAGIC TREE Cristina Hanif Loving Healing Press (2018) ISBN 9781615994212 Reviewed by Lydia Dehning (age 6) and Mom for Reader View Kids (9/19) “Logan and Luna find the Magic Tree” by Cristina Hanif is the story of two siblings, Logan and Luna, who with their…
Emma Lou the Yorkie Poo: Breathing in the Calm will introduce people to some of the many benefits of a mindfulness practice. Readers of Emma Lou will learn how to help a child that worries, teach children a simple technique to practice mindfulness, and support the child’s emotional growth through…
What I would give for a cupcake or ice cream! That’s not in my dietary stars. Celia has her own forbidden foods and that too includes bread, rolls and all types of delicious cakes. The hardest part is going to school and watching the other kids eat their treats while…
In a world where so many think our differences matter comes a children’s book that teaches lessons for young people and adults. The child telling the story is mixed that is she is neither black or white she says she is mixed. If she says she’s white it leaves her…
Children are expected to follow the rules except when they don’t. Jackson is a typical boy who has his good days and not so good ones. At times his temper flares and instead of close his eyes and counting to ten or just taking a deep breath to calm down…
Author Maggy Williams grew up as a biracial child with a black father and a white mother. Thus, she writes from personal experience. She says that she chose to embrace her multiracial heritage because she was taught that she could, and that her hope for this book is help children…
Ethan would like to share his story with everyone. He’s autistic and cannot verbalize his feelings but he can use physical expressions to help get his messages across to everyone. He’s smart and has a great personality and uses hand movements, bouncing balls and other objects to convey his feelings…
The author created this wealth of information to help children understand the needs of others especially brothers and sisters. Teaching better ways to communicate and that everyone is unique, special and that we can all learn something from each other. Take your time. Listen to others and understand their hopes,…
In all my over thirty years of practicing psychotherapy I have read and recommended many self-help books, but seldom have I found one that speaks to me with the spiritual wisdom of Bob Rich’s From DEPRESSION to CONTENTMENT. Here is a book that offers an attitude to life that can…
The playful rhyming text encourages readers to maintain a broad focus as they become more grounded and aware. It can aid them in identifying the root of their feelings, help them to examine their reactions to emotions, and enable them to decide for themselves what they may be ready to…
From Wayne Walker’s Home School Book Review blog Through the rhyming text, author Maggy Williams, who herself has celiac disease, provides comfort and an explanation that will help kids who have gluten allergies to understand how the disease works and what it means at school, and also gives information to…
Excerpted from Wayne Walker’s Home School Book Review: Ethan is a young boy who is having a birthday. He is pictured as telling the reader, “The me that I am is silent. You can see in my eyes and know in your heart that I’m in the world of Ethan.” …
The Picturebook Shelf – Children’s Bookwatch: July 2019 Celia and the Glue Man Maggy Williams, author Elisabeth Hasegawa Agresta, illustrator 9781615993901, $15.95, 32pp Based upon the author’s experience with learning to live with Celiac disease, “Celia and the Glue Man: A Girl’s Journey to Becoming Gluten- Free and Happy” is…
Float is a valuable resource to help everyone understand and identify you emotions. It teaches us to learn how to release unwanted thoughts and feelings and negative emotions. It’s time for you to face your fears, anger and heal and feel special. Follow each guide of each balloon as I…
