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Silly ol’ book

How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-the-Pooh by Annette Bay Pimentel

October 21, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A clever ol’ story about a clever and silly ol’ bear is what you learn about in How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-the-Pooh. The pieces fit as if you’re reading a Winnie the Pooh story, the illustrations as if reading a WTP book and they come together to make a modern classic. It is less a “solid story” and more of a poetic telling of how a bear came into existence. Things are less hard facts but taking the facts […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, History, Poetry Tagged With: #writing, a. a. milne, Annette Bay Pimentel, Books, Ernest Howard Shepard, Faith Pray, literary, pooh bear, winnie the pooh

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:465 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, History, Poetry · Tags: #writing, a. a. milne, Annette Bay Pimentel, Books, Ernest Howard Shepard, Faith Pray, literary, pooh bear, winnie the pooh ·
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I was locking my locker key IN my locker…. she was changing the world!

All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel

December 4, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything is a power powerful story in a picture book format. We follow a young girl and see what she was able to do; what she showed the world what she and others like her, could do. You see, Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins has MS and needs the use of a wheelchair. But she finds many places closed to her. Even school. Partly this is due to physically unable to enter buildings, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Americans with Disabilities Act, Annette Bay Pimentel, Capitol Crawl, Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, Nabigal-Nayagam Haider Ali, Prejudice & Racism, Social Activism & Volunteering, Social Activists

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:388 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act, Annette Bay Pimentel, Capitol Crawl, Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, Nabigal-Nayagam Haider Ali, Prejudice & Racism, Social Activism & Volunteering, Social Activists ·
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