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A Party for Florine: Florine Stettheimer and Me by Yevgenia Nayberg.

January 2, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

For Christmas 2024 one of my gifts was a glass drink-jar from my nephew and his family. It is cute and great for the grand aunt of yesteryear. Except I’m more of a fun flower on a cool simple skull girl and not all pretty flowers. But it does have books and the saying There Is No Such Thing as too many books. And that I do agree with. And I also agree you can’t have too many online reader copies, you just need to […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion Tagged With: art, identity, imagination and play, jewish, Yevgenia Nayberg

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion · Tags: art, identity, imagination and play, jewish, Yevgenia Nayberg ·
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Two Touching Stories

Typewriter by Yevgenia Nayberg

No Ordinary Jacket by Sue-Ellen Pashley

September 9, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Once upon a time a typewriter proudly typed for its Russian author. It had the Cyrillic keyboard, that tapped out story after story. But when the author comes to America, the typewriter is used less. That is, until a new owner finds it and has it ring out again. Typewriter by Yevgenia Nayberg, is a different story. Typewriter is, as advertised, about a typewriter. While we tend not to see something like this today, the book is set in a contemporary setting. There is some […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Clothing & Dress, Emigration & Immigration, Emotions & Feelings, family, mothers, parents, siblings, Sue-Ellen Pashley, Thea Baker, writers & authors, Yevgenia Nayberg

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:282 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Clothing & Dress, Emigration & Immigration, Emotions & Feelings, family, mothers, parents, siblings, Sue-Ellen Pashley, Thea Baker, writers & authors, Yevgenia Nayberg ·
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