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Why, yes: I do like fall best. It is just the superior season. I won’t be entertaining arguments.

Sophie's Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller

Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story by Pat Zietlow Miller

September 23, 2021 by NTE Leave a Comment

Some kids are quirky; Different. In Sophie’s Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller, Illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf, Sophie is one of those kids. Instead of letting the squash her parents bought at the farmer’s market be relegated to their dinner table, she decides instead that the squash is just the right size to love; to “bounce on her knee;” to give a face, name Bernice & become her constant companion. After a while, & many library trips, garden somersaults, baby bottles, hugs and kisses later, nature […]

Walter Does His Best, and so do the rest of us

Walter Does His Best by Eva Pilgrim

September 21, 2021 by NTE Leave a Comment

In Walter Does His Best by Eva Pilgrim, Walter is a good dog, or at least he tries really hard to be. Kids will enjoy his misadventures – digging in the neighbor’s garden, giving up his seat on the subway, helping ducks to cross the street – even though his owner certainly does not. As each of Walter’s attempts to help go ever more and more awry, the illustrations and text get more outrageous, and more hilarious – the page where Walter tries to impress […]

“…loving Blackness enough to see its assets so that dark children matter.” Dr. Bettina L. Love

Hair Story by NoNieqa Ramos

August 28, 2021 by NTE Leave a Comment

I’m having a hard time explaining just how much I loved this book, but I’m going to do my best. First off, Hair Story is own voices written & illustrated, and both the author, NoNieqa Ramos, and the illustrator, Keisha Morris, include their own hair stories at the back of the book, which was a lovely surprise. Second, do you see these illustrations? The texture and colors and patterns and perfection of them? You can see the love in that grandmother’s face, the joy in […]

There’s space for more than one friendly ghost

Gilbert the Ghost by Guido Van Genechten

August 28, 2021 by NTE Leave a Comment

Just in time to grab for your littles for spooky season -> Gilbert is an adorable ghost, who doesn’t really know how to ‘ghost’. And when he tries to learn, he just can’t get it right. And he… kind of doesn’t want to be spooky and scary and learn to shout BOOOO and haunt people & places. So when Gilbert is exiled to the abandoned tower, instead of learning to be scary in isolation, he instead makes a kitty cat friend named Meow, cleans and […]

Where Hands Go by Krystaelynne Sanders Diggs

August 18, 2021 by NTE Leave a Comment

Trigger Warning: Book being reviewed discusses childhood sexual abuse, hereafter called CSA, just in case you need to skip. Where Hands Go by Krystaelynne Sanders Diggs is a really well-illustrated resource that uses an easily accessible poem (whose rhyme scheme doesn’t hit 100% of the time, but you know that I’m much more of a stickler for that than most readers, and definitely child readers), to talk to kids about bodily autonomy. Through really great illustrations of a young, black, female-presenting child & her mom, […]

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Filed Under: Children's Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: abuse, childhood sexual abuse, krystaelynne sanders diggs, NetGalley, Picture Books, Trigger Warning, where hands belong

NTE's CBR13 Review No:31 · Genres: Children's Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: abuse, childhood sexual abuse, krystaelynne sanders diggs, NetGalley, Picture Books, Trigger Warning, where hands belong ·

Horizontal is just the way some of us live

Horizontal Parenting How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down by Michelle Woo

July 27, 2021 by NTE 3 Comments

Guys: I don’t even know how to explain to you how validating this book is. I’ve been helping raise kids, while also living with chronic debilitating illnesses & disabilities for 27 years now. Very often, that raising occurs from a horizontal position, out of necessity. Oh, today we’re have vertigo for no goddamn reason? Great day to play Auntie NTE is the troll under the bridge who won’t let you pass. Oh, goodie, the treatment I had last week that was supposed to only have 1 […]

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