Reviewed by Wayne S. Walker Book: Randolph the Christmas Moose: A Yuletide Fable of Empowerment Author: Gerry Gibson Illustrator: Matt Taylor Publisher: Loving Healing Press, 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1615995004 Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1615994991 Paperback Related website(s): http://www.GerryGibsonAuthor.com (author), http://www.LHPress.com (publisher) Rating: ***** 5 stars (5 stars=EXCELLENT; 4 stars=GOOD; 3 stars=FAIR; 2 stars=POOR;…
Review by Wayne Walker In The Magic Home: A Displaced Boy Finds a Way to Feel Better a little boy lives with his father, mother, brother, sister, brown dog, and fluffy white rabbit in a small but cozy house. He plays happily in the courtyard and cannot wait to…
Torke, Kyle. Hiking the Grand Mesa: A Clementine the Rescue Dog Story (Published in 2020 by Loving Healing Press, 5145 Pontiac Trail, Ann Arbor, MI 48205). Two young boys, Coover and Conrad, go with their Grandma and their mighty rescue dog, Clementine, on a desert adventure. They hike through the…
Nancy Lorraine’s Bookshelf We’re All Not the Same But We’re Still Family Theresa Fraser and Eric E. W. Fraser, authors www.LHPress.com 9781615994786, $15.95 PB, $4.95 Kindle, Ages 4-8 9781615994793, $26.95, HC, 42pp, www.amazon.com “We’re Not the Same But We’re Still Family: An Adoption and Birth Family Story” is a compassionate…
AMANDA’S FALL Kelly Bouldin Darmofal Loving Healing Press (2019) ISBN: 9781615994502 Reviewed by Lydia Dehning (age 6) for Reader Views Kids (3/20) Amanda’s Fall: A Story for Children About Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) by Kelly Bouldin Darmofal is the story of a little girl named Amanda who is at school…
Humans have always experienced anxiety as a defense mechanism to danger, says Fred Zelinger, a Cedarhurst psychologist. “Anxiety is fundamentally a survival need. If something worries us, we end up doing something to be safe, to avoid the danger,” he says. But it’s no longer a sabre-toothed tiger that’s the…
Miss Popular Steals the Show: Girls in Wheelchairs Rule! is a delightful and humorous diary account from “Bix,” a plain Jane from a struggling family trying to outdo and steal the third-grade classroom stage from Valerie, whose mother is a famous author. Miss Popular may be a wheelchair-user, but she…
Sharon Martin, of Beck Valley Books writes: We’re All Not the Same, But We’re Still Family: An Adoption and Birth Family Story is an excellent story which depicts the story of Deshaun and how he has a lot of questions about being adopted. Why was he given up for adoption?…
“A great book for kids and adults alike to deal with negative emotions that drag us down. I love how each emotion is tied to a different colored balloon, and the imagery is perfectly described so that you can almost feel the balloons drifting off. A rainbow that helps kids…
Having adopted both of our sons, I found that this book covers the exact questions and issues that were discussed in our pre-adoption training. The story was written for adoptive families to explore the benefits of adoption openness. In her “For Parents and Caregivers Only” at the back of the…
