This is a cozy book. It has cozy illustrations with warm colors but at the same time are cool to the eye. It has cozy words that tell a memory and cozy words that tell about the here and now as well. The best part is the family is a biracial family. However, it is not “in your face” as it is “just there” as “normal.” Yet the traditional nuclear family is there. Natalie Reif Ziarnik has created a lovely, cozy book that is perfect […]
Do you Kitchen Dance?
Kitchen Dance by Maurie J. Manning
Our narrator wakes up to odd noises one night. Getting up and waking her brother, they go to investigate. They go downstairs, following the sounds to the kitchen where they find their mother and father dancing, singing and having a good old time as they clean up for the night. But when our siblings are found out, will they be in trouble or will there be a big surprise for them? Kitchen Dance by Maurie J. Manning mixes in some Spanish (what the parents sing […]