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My Baba’s Garden Book Review

Holodomor. A Ukrainian word derived from one that means to kill by starvation. Known as theĀ Terror–FamineĀ or theĀ Great Famine, it was a man-made famine inĀ Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 during which millions of Ukrainians died. It also affected other major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union. Stalin forced peasant farmers […]

Yet Another Great Picture Book

(NOTE: I was given a free copy of this book but all opinions are my own.) A cow, a mule, and a miniature horse. They are in the barn. They are worried. They are worried because the sun isn’t making it’s regularly scheduled appearance. Now, if you were a cow, […]

A Great Picture Book

(I was given a copy of this book but all opinions are my own.) What does it mean to be a good friend? Do you have to like the same foods? The same color? And what about the same kind of pet? In the delightful book I Don’t Care by […]

The Grandad Handbook

(NOTE: I was given a copy of this book to review but all opinions are my own.) Grandads get shortchanged on the Internet. If you Google ”activities grandpa can do with grandchildren,” how many results do you think that you will get? Huh? After searching through 4 pages of results […]