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We are family (Goodness help you)

Summer Is for Cousins by Rajani Larocca

Oh No, the Aunts Are Here by Adam Rex

April 4, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

As a cousin, I compare myself to books about cousins. And while me and mine did play and have ice cream, we did not do it the way this family does in Summer Is for Cousins. But it does not matter how you spent your summers; you probably can relate to Ravi’s family. He is the almost youngest (there is a new seventh cousin to his sixth place), he admires his oldest cousin, and he likes sharing ice cream time with all the cousins. The […]

Big Cousins, Big Shoes, and Little ol’ You

King Kong’s Cousin by Mark Teague

July 29, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The joke goes, how you would you like to be the brother of Jesus? (Why can’t you be more like your brother Jesus? He walks on water! He heals the sick!) And the same would be true for being the cousin of King Kong. I mean, Kong is big. He is strong. He was in a movie. And Junior? He takes bubble baths, is not very tall, eats his breakfast and known as King Kong’s Cousin. In classic Mark Teague text and illustrations (though I […]

Living that Summer Dream

Summer Spirit by Elizabeth Holleville

October 13, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Summer Spirit looked out from the top shelf. I am not sure how I saw it as my little over 5-foot frame does not usually see that far above my head! But once you learn the story, maybe you will think some supernatural events took place, making my eyes be drawn upwards. Or not. After all, ghosts are not real. No matter what Elizabeth Holleville says in their young adult graphic novel. Louise, her sister, and their cousins spend part of the summer with their […]

Keeping your Family together

When We Were Alone by David Alexander Robertson

Grandpa’s Girls by Nicola I. Campbell

August 20, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Both books are very different but have the common thread of having a Native American influence, or backdrop. These would be great books to add to any collection. They both are fabulous examples of the meaning of friendship. I preferred When We Were Alone more than Grandpa’s Girls for several reasons. One reason I enjoyed it was the serious tone of the book. This might turn some people off, but even then, David Alexander Robertson has infused a great hopefulness as well. When We Were […]

Two Tickets to Paradise and a bottle for rumrunners

Turtle in Paradise: The Graphic Novel by Jennifer L. Holm

April 5, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Turtle in Paradise: The Graphic Novel is based on Jennifer L. Holm’s novel of the same name. We follow a spunky girl named Turtle as she comes of age in the late 1930’s when sent to live with family she has never met in Key West. The town her mother and aunt grew up in still has cousins, old friends, and Turtles not-so-dead grandmother still there. Turtle has been forced to be an adult before her time as her mom has her head in the […]

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