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“Good Morning with roses and jasmine,”

A Good Morning for Giddo by Dahlia Constantine and Irene Latham

August 22, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Picture books are a great way to read a book without reading a few hundred pages. They still can entertain, give factual information and make you laugh. Of course, you can cry and be mad, too, as everything is there, as well. I have said this before and will say it again: Picture books are legitimate books. And A Good Morning for Giddo is a very legitimate book. It does not have a big action scene and the message is a little slow in the […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health Tagged With: Africa, Basma Hosam, Birthday!, celebrations, Dahlia Constantine, Dahlia Constantine and Irene Latham, egypt, family, grandfathers, Grandparent and child, Holiday, Irene Latham, Multigenerational

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:375 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health · Tags: Africa, Basma Hosam, Birthday!, celebrations, Dahlia Constantine, Dahlia Constantine and Irene Latham, egypt, family, grandfathers, Grandparent and child, Holiday, Irene Latham, Multigenerational ·
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Get the scooper, ’cause I got the scoop on a robo-dog and its girl

D-39: A Robodog’s Journey by Irene Latham

October 27, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am not really a dog person, but something about the idea of D-39: A Robodog’s Journey was grabbing. Maybe the androgenous look of the character on the cover or the fact it was a robot dog and as far as I could remember I had never read a book with a robot dog. Maybe because it was free. But what kept me reading this novel by Irene Latham was two main things: first it was done in a poetic prose manner. But it was […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Poetry, Young Adult Tagged With: Children, Children's Dystopian Fiction Books, dogs, family, fathers and daughters, friendship, grief, Irene Latham, Mothers and daughters, parents, war

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:365 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Poetry, Young Adult · Tags: Children, Children's Dystopian Fiction Books, dogs, family, fathers and daughters, friendship, grief, Irene Latham, Mothers and daughters, parents, war ·
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It is: “These are cool books, but I do not have the 250-word minimum for each of them” time.

Wild Peace by Irene Latham

Why? A Conversation About Race by Taye Diggs

Who Loves Little Lemur? by Jay Fleck

May 28, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

It is: “These are cool books, but I do not have the 250-word minimum for each of them” time. We start with Wild Peace which was penned by Irene Latham and illustrations that came from Il Sung Na.  This is a lovely poem about taking a break and about imagination set in the picture book format. The start and end have a few unusual illustrations that I never completely “got” but overall, my favorite part of the book are the illustrations. This is a relaxing […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Poetry Tagged With: Baby Animals, Bedtime & Dreams, family, Il Sung Na, Irene Latham, Jann Whitford Paul, Jay Fleck, nature, Prejudice & Racism, Science & Nature, Shane W. Evans, Social Themes, Taye Diggs

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:159 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Poetry · Tags: Baby Animals, Bedtime & Dreams, family, Il Sung Na, Irene Latham, Jann Whitford Paul, Jay Fleck, nature, Prejudice & Racism, Science & Nature, Shane W. Evans, Social Themes, Taye Diggs ·
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Miss Fancy meets Frank

Meet Miss Fancy by Irene Latham

July 3, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

#cbr11bingo #Youth Over all, Meet Miss Fancy is an amazing fictional story about the real elephant, Miss Fancy. Irene Latham brings to life the story of an elephant and a young boy with the wish of one day being near a real elephant. The illustrations of John Holyfield not only bring to life the history of the time in fun, sweet, colorful, and realistic images, but brings to life the text as well. There is an afterwards by the author and illustrator. The only part […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History Tagged With: based on true story, cbr11bingo, Elephants, Irene Latham, John Holyfield, United States - African-American

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:255 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History · Tags: based on true story, cbr11bingo, Elephants, Irene Latham, John Holyfield, United States - African-American ·
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