For some reason the cover to the book and its title didn’t connect with me. The cover of Roll With It has a teenage girl in her wheel chair, balancing on her back wheels whilst holding a pie with finger like she’s spinning a basketball. The cover image and the title imply the vibe that the book puts forth perfectly. So much so that after reading it I realized I had brought my expectations to a book that I expected to be one that I couldn’t relate to and dour.
On average we read one book a year that runs. This is the descriptor we use when the book can’t be put down. The story that the author has put forth literally runs off of the page and into your imagination as fuel for what could be a perfect movie. Having said that, the book is almost always better, so be ahead of the curve and read City Spies by James Ponti. From the first two pages the book’s story runs into your mind with a credible, fun plot that has early teenagers as the main characters.
We are a sucker for pizza and children’s illustrated books with rabbits as the main character. I just realized the rabbit thing a moment ago while I was re-reading Hundred Feet Tall by Benjamin Scheuer with illustrations by Jemima Williams. Our main character is an un-named anthropomorphic rabbit who is in the country with his parents. He sees an acorn on the ground in early winter and promptly takes it with them as the three of them pile into their red car with a BU-NNY license plate.
One More Hug is a children’s illustrated book by Megan Alexander with illustrations by Hiroe Nakata. It tells the story that most parents have when they look at their child and can see them grow up right before their eyes. One moment you’re assuring them that the wind blowing outside is nothing to worry about and then before you know it you’re watching them drive off down the street on the way to college. This is a feeling that parents see in their mind’s eye or when they’re looking back at photographs that seem like they were taken yesterday.
Books like Counting The Stars don’t get the respect or attention that they deserve. They’re illustrated books at a middle elementary school reading level, but might be intimidating to some readers in that age group. Normally an illustrated book has the impression of it being geared as one that’s simple to read and expresses easy concepts. Counting The Stars does that, but it does so with more advanced paragraphs and introduces children to Katherine Johnson. She’s the NASA mathematician who many people (including myself) were first introduced to via the film Hidden Figures.
Sometimes we miss the boat. Pokko and the Drum is one of those books. Released in 2019 and having been placed in many Top 10 Children’s Books we can testify that it fully merits any praise that it received. From the fully encompassing art on the pages to the simple messaging and presentation of the story, it’s a book that any parent and child can understand and appreciate.
To Dance, so some young girls that’s their life. We’ve known a couple of parents that have ballet kids. One of them recently had their child selected to go to classes there. Apparently this was a big deal because the school only accepts a dozen or so students, dance audition tapes have to be submitted, angles of their feet are tabulated and more. Those people that the aforementioned classifiers speak to, as well as, those who love a high quality graphic novel, need to read To Dance. To Dance is a memoir by Siena Cherson Siegel with artwork by Mark Siegel. It details the work and effort that Siena went through from when she started ballet at the age of six through her late teens.
The Only Woman In The Photo is a book title that really baits the hook. Why was she the only woman in the photo? In this #MeToo era it conjures up all manner of scheming or wily characters that are lurking in or out of the picture frame. In reality, The Only Woman In The Photo has a much larger and impactful scope. This is the story of Frances Perkins, a woman whose work we come across daily due to the time she spent working in the White House.
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