The Happiness Tree - a book review

Happy Earth Day everyone!  I hope you celebrate today and in so doing make our world a better place to live.  The answer to the last book I featured for you to guess is:

                                     "A Wrinkle in Time"  authored by Madeleine L'Engle

Here is today's featured book:

Author:  Andrea Alban Gosline

Illustrator:  Lisa Burnett Bossi

The opening line is perfect, "Everything good begins with me."  A tiny acorn tumbles to the ground and issues this statement to its mother tree.  Then his adventure begins.  He snuggles deep into a cloak of golden leaves, takes a long winter's nap and emerges in the warm Springtime wide awake, ready to sprout and stand tall amidst his prestigious elders. 

Beautiful illustrations of different types of trees appear in the following pages and each one gives an account of his value, worth and contributions to his surrounding world. The trees are characterized by words such as hope, love, courage, gratitude, peace, compassion, tolerance, generosity, honesty, and happiness.  They model to the human reader the exact attributes humans need to make their world a  more loving and better place to inhabit.  The world will then be a thriving and healthy community with everyone and everything living together in harmony and peace and doing their share to make the planet the best it can be.

The book is written in rhyme and the message is positive and inspirational.  The illustrations are magical and bring the text alive.  The journey from a tiny seed to a luscious, thriving forest encourages us to look after our world so our children can stand in the midst of "life" and know as they grow up they will need to become good stewards of their earth, as one day they will be passing it on to their children's and their children's children.......and so goes forth the circle of life with everyone having a part to play to keep it going. 

About the author:

Andrea Alban (a.k.a. Andrea Gosline) was born in 1959 in Baltimore, MD but spent her childhood reading voraciously in San Francisco, where she still lives with her family. On a weekly basis, she visited the Merced Branch Library and returned home with a pile of books on many different subjects. She received her B.A. cum laude in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.

Andrea self-published her first poetry book at the age of six--a hand-lettered scroll tied with red ribbon. Today, she is mother to Jake and Lily and the author of three picture books: the bestselling THE HAPPINESS TREE (2009 Florida Children's Book Award nominee, and currently touring with the OUT ON A LIMB exhibit at children's museums throughout the US and Canada); Ten Little Wishes, and January's Child: The Birthday Month Book. Her debut novel, ANYA'S WAR was chosen as an ALA Honor Book by the Amelia Bloomer Project for its strong female character and was shortlisted for China's Panda Award. The book was inspired by her father's childhood in the French Quarter of Shanghai.

Andrea's inspirational parenting titles include: Little Moments of Peace; Welcoming Ways; and Celebrating Motherhood, a NAPPA Gold Award recipient.

Andrea is a dynamic speaker at schools, museums, and literary festivals throughout the Bay Area and beyond. She serves on the faculty of Book Passage and its annual Children's Writer Conference and consults privately with writers of all ages to shape, polish and package their manuscripts. Andrea leads Feedback Circles at various Bay Area locations for writers of all genres.

Follow Andrea on Facebook at Andrea Alban's The Happiness Tree and Andrea Alban, Author. Visit her websites: www.albanbossi.com and www.andreaalban.com

About the illustrator:

Lisa Burnett Bossi is an illustrator and graphic designer.  Her enchanting paintings are inspired by dreams, nature, and wishes for a peaceful and compassionate world.  Along with Andrea Alban Gosline, she is one of the co-creators of BossiGosline Pictures and Verse.  Their inspirational books, heartfelt greeting cards, and simple treasures draw from a love of cozy homes and the wonders of the natural world.

Lisa grew up with her family along the shores of Cape Cod and Maine. She studied fine art and art history at Bowdoin College, where she also cultivated her love of singing and acting. Her travels across the country led her to San Francisco, where she met Andrea and began their wonderful creative partnership.

Her debut Scholastic Press title, January's Child: The Birthday Month Book is a heartfelt reinvention of theMonday's Child rhyme, affirming the gift of all children.  When Andrea was struck by the negative message of the original rhyme, she and Lisa sought to create their own rhyme for children's birthdays and the positive qualities that each child enters the world with.

Lisa and her husband Adrian, built their home in Brunswick, Maine, where they live with their daughters, Lila and Clara.   Meet Ms. Bossi online at http://www.bossigosline.com/

                                                          

                                                            Book Review Rating:  8 (Fantastic!)

Read on and read always!  Have a beautiful and pro-active Earth Day everyone!

Happy Earth Day everyone

Earth Day falls on April 22, 2014 and events are held worldwide by the nonprofit Earth Day Network. The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970 by Denis Hayes and it is now considered to be the largest secular holiday in the world. Fun fact: Earth Day even has an official (yet kind of official) anthem.

"Joyful joyful we adore our Earth in all its wonderment, Simple gifts of nature that all join into a paradise, Now we must resolve to protect her, Show her our love throughout all time, With our gentle hand and touch, We make our home a newborn world, Now we must resolve to protect her, Show her our love throughout all time, With our gentle hand and touch, We make our home a newborn world."

Here are 40 quotes to celebrate our planet: 

1. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead

2. "You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet." -- Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

3. "For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death." -- Tom McMillan

4. "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." -- Marshall McLuhan

5. "Why should I care about future generations? What have they ever done for me?" -- Groucho Marx

6. "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." -- Native American Proverb

7. "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" -- Henry David Thoreau

8. "Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth." -- Henry David Thoreau

9. "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." -- Bill Vaughan

10. "There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all." -- Robert Orben

11. "The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity … that’s all there is. That’s the whole economy. That’s where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world." -- Gaylord Nelson

12. "I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior." -- Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990

13. "Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life." -- Thomas Alva Edison

14. "A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says -- go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining." -- David Brin

15. "The earth is what we all have in common." -- Wendell Berry

16. "For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death." -- Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

17. "To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." -- William Blake

18. "I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn." -- A Chieftan from Nigeria

19. "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more." -- George Gordon, Lord Byron

20. "And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." -- William Shakespeare

21. "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." -- John Muir

22. "Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money." -- Cree Indian Proverb

23. "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair." -- Kahlil Gibran

24. "Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea." -- George Carlin

25. "Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees." -- David Letterman

26. "He that plants trees loves others beside himself." -- Thomas Fuller

27. "The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun." -- Ralph Nader

28. "There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet." -- Brooke Medicine Eagle

29. "There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more." -- Gaylord Nelson

30. "We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Walt Kelly

31. "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -- Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977

32. "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." -- Frank Lloyd Wright

33. "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." -- John Muir

34. "The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it." -- Barry Commoner

35. "Every day is Earth Day." -- Author Unknown

36. "Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature." -- Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963

37. "Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away." --Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990

38. "Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind." -- David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978

39. "It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times ... What the Dickens is going on here." -- Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989

40. "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more."
-- George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Source:  www.latintime.com       author:  Susmita Baral

Enjoy Earth Day everyone!  

Happy Easter Monday to you

Hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend and can spend this day recovering and relaxing before another busy week whisks you off into new adventures.  Here is today's book quote.  Hope you can figure out both the title of the book and the author.

                            " It was a dark and stormy night."

Here are some cute "after Easter poems" to still keep you in the Easter spirit but wrap up the season as well.

CHOCOLATE RABBIT

I got a chocolate rabbit
For an Easter treat,
A great big chocolate rabbit,
Good enough to eat.
So I ate his ears on Sunday,
his nose I finished Monday,
Tuesday I nibbled on his feet.
I ate his tail on Wednesday,
Thursday I kept on,
By Friday he was going,
Saturday he was gone.
Oh, I loved that chocolate rabbit,
From the moment that he came,
And if I get another one,
I’ll love him just the same.

Jelly Bean Stew

I’m making Jelly Bean stew
And this is what I’ll add
Every color of jelly beans
All the kinds I’ve had
We’ll put in a pinch of magic
One rainbow, finely diced
And to add to the mixture
A little sugar and spice
Then to give it the right taste
We’ll add a child’s dream
Add some imagination
Now to let it steam
This is how to make Jelly Bean Stew
In a imaginary way
This will make you smile
And maybe brighten your day

Read on and read always!  Have a wonderful day everyone.

Easter Weekend musings......

All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From the Easter Bunny

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• Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
• Walk softly and carry a big chocolate bunny.
• Everyone needs a friend who is all ears.
• Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
• There's no such thing as too much candy.
• All work and no play can make you a basket case.
• A cute little tail always attracts a lot of attention.
• Let happy thoughts multiply like rabbits.
• Everyone is entitled to a bad hare day.
• Some body parts should be floppy.
• Keep your paws off other people's jellybeans.
• Good things come in small sugar-coated packages.
• The grass is always greener in someone else's basket.
• An Easter bonnet can tame even the wildest hare.
• To show your true colors you have to come out of your shell.
• The best things in life are sweet and gooey and come in assorted colors.
• Get rid of all your black jellybeans.
  SO REMEMBER...ALWAYS BELIEVE IN THE EASTER BUNNY :)
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  Patience
  Chocolate Easter bunny
  In a jelly bean nest,
  I'm saving you for very last
  Because I love you best.
  
  I'll only take a nibble
  From the tip of your ear
  And one bite from the other side
  So that you won't look weird.
  Yum, you're so delicious!
  I didn't mean to eat
  Your chocolate tail till Tuesday.
  Ooops! There go your feet!
  I wonder how your back tastes
  With all that chocolate hair.
  I never thought your tummy
  Was only filled with air!
  Chocolate Easter bunny
  In a jelly bean nest,
  I'm saving you for very last
  Because I love you best.
  
  
  Chocolate Rabbit 
  I got a chocolate rabbit
  For an Easter treat,
  A great big chocolate rabbit,
  Good enough to eat.
  So I ate his ears on Sunday,
  his nose I finished Monday,
  Tuesday I nibbled on his feet.
  I ate his tail on Wednesday,
  Thursday I kept on,
  By Friday he was going,
  Saturday he was gone.
  Oh, I loved that chocolate rabbit,
  From the moment that he came,
  And if I get another one,
  I'll love him just the same.
  
  

  
  

                           Fun visual "bites" for you to smile at.........Enjoy!!

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  Tomorrow is Easter Sunday! A day to celebrate and eat lots of chocolate and treats that you probably should not be having....but hey....enjoy a wonderful party to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus, God's only son, who died a terrible death on the cross and then rose on the third day in all His glory.  I am sure Jesus, himself, would be partaking in the Easter egg hunt (probably He was the one who put it all in place and then He'd  giggle and race along with the kids to help them find the hidden sweet treasures).  He certainly would be sitting at your table as the Easter feast was being passed around and enjoying the company of everyone present there.  Have a great day today and find many reasons to celebrate the goodness of this great season.
  
  Read on and read always!   Easter brings new life and hope to all. 
  

  
  

The Parable of the Lily - a book review

Hello everyone.  Before I plunge into today's great book let me give you the answer to yesterday's puzzler...

                                                "Beezus and Ramona" by Beverly Cleary



Here is the book I have chosen for this day and for this time:

Title:  The Parable of the Lily

Author: Liz Curtis Higgs

Illustrator:  Nancy Munger

Ages:  3-7

About the book:

This book is the perfect read for the Easter season and also a lovely gift to tuck inside your child's Easter basket.  The story centres around a little girl named Maggie, a farmer's daughter, who receives a gift in the mail from her father that she is not too fond of (she would have rather received a doll or a toy).  It appears to be an old box of dirt with some instructions for gardening attached to it.  Who in the world would want that old thing?  She puts the unwanted gift in the basement and forgets all about it all winter long and then in the spring she runs across it again. She tosses it out the cellar door and it lands in the family garden.  Unknown to her the box of dirt contained a bulb, and that bulb  now nestles in the ground. After some rain and sun and nourishment from the soil,  low and behold a beautiful Easter lily appears and starts to bloom.  Maggie is overjoyed with the miracle of such a beautiful flower rising from what she had considered a worthless pile of old dirt.  Higg's simple tale is interspersed with short Bible passages that parallel the life of Jesus all through the book.  The illustrations add so much to the text and the expression are amazing.

The reader takes away the message that new life begins with Easter (Christ's resurrection). It is a beautiful message allowing you to reflect on God's sovereign love and His promises for our lives. The book shows us that a simple humble gift (Jesus, God's son) can blossom into a beautiful promise of hope and a security and ensure a blessed future for everyone, should they decide to accept it.   

About the author:

Funny, award-winning author and speaker, Liz Curtis Higgs has presented more than 1,500 inspirational programs for audiences in all fifty states and six foreign countries, including her beloved Scotland. She currently tours with the Women of Faith Conferences .She's the author of over thirty books, with well over two million in print, including her nonfiction bestseller, Bad Girls of the Bible, her Gold-Medallion award-winning children's book, The Pumpkin Patch Parable, and her best-selling historical novels, Mine Is the Night & Here Burns My Candle, plus Thorn in My Heart. Liz lives with her husband and too many cats in their 19th-century farmhouse in Kentucky.

Favorite Verse: Psalms 16:11 - "You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand."

About the illustrator:

I have always loved drawing animals and children....and am grateful that I have been able to make a living full time as an illustrator. I graduated from Art Center College of Design in Illustration.

I live on a farm in Michigan with my husband, horses, a dog, a cat and a parrot. When I'm not in my studio, I love to ride my horses with friends, walk the dog in our woods and do plein air painting. 

I have illustrated over 80 Childrens & Chapter books. Some of the Publishers I have worked with include:
Augsburg Fortress
Bethany Backyard
Harper & Row
Macmillian
McGrawHill
Oxford Press
Scott, Foresman
Silver Burdett & GInn
Standard Publishers
Tommy Nelson
Tyndale House
Wiley & Sons
Zondervan

                                                                  Book Review Rating:  8 ( Fantastic!)

Read on and read always!  G'Day to you.

Celebrate Easter

Good day to you.  Here is yesterday's answer to what book and who wrote it kid's book:

                                    "Make Way for Ducklings" by Robert McCloskey

Published in 1941

Today's book:

Title: Rufus and Ryan Celebrate Easter!

Author: Kathleen Long Bostrom

Illustrator: Rebecca Thornburgh 

Ages: 2-5

About the book:

Ryan is a typical four year old who loves all aspects of Easter.  He loves the eggs, his Easter basket and the celebrations surrounding the holiday.  He has his favourite stuffed toy, a monkey that he has named Rufus.  Rufus and he are inseparable and they go everywhere together.  Ryan is a little boy who is learning about his faith and about life in general.  He learns that Easter isn't all bunnies and treats but has a deeper meaning - it is a day to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus, God's son.

The author explains the meaning of the holiday in very simple, clear language so any child will understand its meaning.  This is the third book in the series of Rufus and Ryan.  The other two books are , "Rufus and Ryan Go to Church" and "Rufus and Ryan Say Their Prayers."  The illustrations are light, cartoonish and very, very kid-friendly.  I am very sure you and you whole family will enjoy this book.

About the author:

Kathleen Long Bostrom is a published children's author in both the Christian and trade markets. She has a Master's in Christian Education and a Doctorate of Ministry in Preaching, and she has worked in children's ministry for many years. Kathy and her husband Greg have three grown children and live in Illinois.

Rebecca Thornburgh began illustrating children's books full-time in 1996 and today has almost 100 books to her name. Rebecca's vibrant watercolors have been showcased in previous Ideals titles, including The Story of Christmas and The Story of Easter. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two daughters.

About the illustrator:

When I was seven, I announced at the dinner table that when I grew up, I was going to be a bookmaker. Everybody laughed. But ever since I can remember, making books -- creating stories and pictures -- was what I wanted to do.

So, now that I'm more or less a grownup, I'm more or less a bookmaker. I’ve been illustrating children’s books (and other stuff for children) full-time since 1996. My very first book, Celtic Designs, was published when I was 21, and it’s now in its seventh printing! I’ve illustrated over a hundred books -- a whole bunch of early readers, a number of board books for very small people, and a nice little clump of picturebooks. Some of my favorites are Lewis the Librarian, and The Shelf Elf andThe Shelf Elf Helps Out! In 2008 I illustrated three books for a series called The Shelf Elf Looks It Up! and 26 books for a series called My Sound Box for beginning readers. My newest books are a series about a little boy and his toy monkey -- the Rufus and Ryan sereis. I'm working on the fourth book in the series right now!

I really like to draw fairies and dragons and strange little creatures, but I also draw a lot of regular kids doing normal things like going on field trips. When I can get away with it, I like to stick little weird things into my pictures, even the normal ones. Check out my "What I Drew in Church This Week" blog for some of my random drawings. For more fairies, visit my "A Fairy Painting A Day" blog.

I grew up in a sweet little town hugged by the mountains in western Pennsylvania, called Hollidaysburg. (Home of the Slinky, in case you didn't know.) My sister and I were famous as Serious Readers: teachers were always stopping us in the hallway to recommend some new series of books ("Already read 'em," we'd sigh.)  I'm pretty sure we read every single book in the children’s section of the library. When I wasn't reading, I was drawing: little mice dressed up in quaint outfits, trees with faces and twiggy fingers, dancing bugs -- usually in soft, thick pencil on spongy yellow lined tablet paper. I studied fine art at Bryn Mawr College. In a tiny studio with a little arched green door, I created etchings with zinc plates, but of course the subject matter was pretty much the same.  After graduating I went to work for Hallmark Cards, but my particular job didn't allow me to do any artwork -- this turned out to be Not Much Fun -- so I soon left the lovely Land of the Greeting Card.  Then there was a bizarre (but fairly brief) career swerve -- I went to the extremely intense Wharton School of Business for an MBA degree, and worked for a while in advertising as a business-type person. But I kept on drawing -- goblins appeared on marketing reports and dancing carrots on spreadsheets.  The arrival of a baby inspired me to paint a wacky rabbit-filled world on her nursery walls --my favorite scene was "Imperative Park" which featured little signs saying "Walk," "Sit," "Eat," "Smell" (the flowers.) On seeing this room, my ol' college pal, the wise and also world famous illustrator R.W. Alley, ventured the opinion that it looked as if I might want to be doing some illustrating instead of writing marketing strategies. He was right, of course. So it was back to silly pictures for me. Since then, I've been living happily ever after!

I live in a pleasantly spooky Victorian house in the charmingChestnut Hill section of Philadelphia -- with my very cool husbandDavid (who is a public policy/government type by day, but guitar man by night), our weird and wonderful daughters Blair and Alice, and two silly barky dogs named Rory and Zero. I have a terrific studio up on the third floor, just filled with books and pictures and funny little objects. (I believe in the creative power of clutter.) I love stuff that floats in the air, so the studio has five or six homemade mobiles, plus a rubber skeleton, a giant trout, and a dragon with flapping wings, all hanging from the ceiling. I also have a real thing about clocks -- right now I have about fifteen, mostly homemade, mostly on-time, ticking away around the studio.  (One of these days, I'm gonna add a page here on How to Make Clocks (More Fun than Functional) All by Yourself -- so do stay tuned.)

I love to sing as much as I love to read and draw. I study classical music in a Very Serious Way with my extremely talented teacher Gayle Wieand, and I sing with Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, a distinguished symphonic chorus, and also with my quite wonderful church choir at Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill.  I also sing with a band called Reckless Amateurs! We play music that some people call "alt country" and others call American "roots" music -- whatever it is, it's a whole lot of fun, and we would love to play at your next party...

My new musical adventure is trying to learn to play the violin (okay, it's really the fiddle). My teacherHollis is terrific, an amazing musician, and extremely patient. The dogs love to listen to me practice...

And finally, if you're looking for more stuff with which to decorate your life, consider stuff that has my art on it. (What a great idea!) I have a little on-line shop (as does most every other artist on the planet) where you will find Totally Essential Items You Already Have Way Too Many Of , like...oh, coffee mugs and t-shirts and bags and things. But these particular items happen to be Unique and eminentlyCollectible and Status-Building, you see, because these items have my pictures on them somewhere. And let's just say right here that nobody else you know will have things like THAT. So, if you're feeling acquisitive, I encourage you to work through the feeling here:www.cafeshops.com/rthornburgh.  (I particularly recommend the clocks, but of course that's because I have that slight obsession I mentioned earlier...)

And that is enough about me. Way enough.

               (This all was so interesting I couldn't find a part that I wanted to edit.....enjoy!)

                                                      Book Review Rating:  8  (Fantastic!)

Read on and read always!   Have an amazing day everyone.