Book Review: Black Joy by Charnaie Gordon

 

Black Joy is an engaging and positive children's book geared toward African-American children and is also great for children of other races. This book explains the origin of Black Love Day, which was instituted in 1993 and is celebrated on February 13th.  Black Joy also tells children what love truly entails and how to love themselves. The illustrations in this book are beautiful and show the positivity of an African-American community stemming from a love mural created by a young boy named Jaden.

Book Review: Charlotte & Penelope and Their Magical Menagerie by Teresa Argenbright

 

Geared towards a 4- 8-year-old audience, this book is helpful for young emerging readers as it encourages using phonics which they can easily use to decode the next rhyming word based on the last word of the previous word.

This story is enjoyable and I couldn't help but chuckle at the writer's  creativity.  The illustrations are gorgeous and colorful.  My 11-year-old enjoyed the story and recommended the book to her elementary school classmates.

At the end of the book, they ask readers fun questions to give them further things to think about, along with interesting facts about the animals featured in the book.