Stephanie Lisa Tara

Little Library Mouse is a wonderfully written and beautifully illustrated book about the adventures that a little mouse who lives in a library goes on when the library closes for the night. He can be anything and go anywhere ... all in the pages of a book! What an excellent way to help little ones realize how exciting reading can be when you just open a book!

I absolutely loved this charming children’s bedtime story about sea turtles. Written in rhyming verse with gorgeous illustrations, it chronicles baby sea turtles hatching from eggs and “following the moon” to get to their mama in the sea. (I am a sucker for tiny smiling sea turtles.) This was a very relaxing and soothing story that shared the natural journey of baby turtles making their way from their nesting area in the sand out to sea. I would imagine it being highly requested at show more bedtime from young turtle lovers!

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To me this book read like a poem with illustrations, and I really loved the way it felt. Poetry exploring imagination, with lots of cute details (like mouse footprints, paper airplanes, leaves, or snowflake fractals) around the words and cute full colour illustrations on the facing pages of each verse.

Nola by Stephanie Lisa Tara is such a touching book that I wanted to cry after reading it knowing it was based on a real rhino and she died during the creation of this book. The real Nola and only a couple of other white rhinos are all there is left! I looked online and searched the sad history. I am glad there is a book out that may get kids to feel tenderness toward animals and want to not pouch or kill animals for their skins or horns or for trophies. Here is a article of Nola with a show more picture of her and her death and it's impact. https://www.wired.com/2015/11/death-endangered-rhino-leaves-three-world/.
Great book. Wonderful. Loved the images except the noses (?) on the kids, weird. show less