Review: Let's Talk - Learning to Bowl - Lisa Jacovsky - August 2022 As someone whose life used to revolve around children's books, I am passionate about kids reading and the amazing books available these days. Something that I have participated in every year for several years now is Multicultural Children's Book Day where we are provided with a children's book from somewhere around the world with a theme/ experience etc to read and review. This year's book was called Let's Talk - Learning to Bowl by Lisa Jacovsky and I assumed I was matched with this one as one of the main characters Emma has autism which is a genetic disability prominent in my family line as I have had/ have family members, relatives with autism and I am sure I have some traits of it myself. This was a fun book about learning not only bowling but also working with someone with autism - behaviors and flash cards. Unfortunately what didn't sit right with me was the COVID angle which I know w...

Review: Amazing Sports from Around the World - Douglas McLaughlin - May 2022 As someone passionate about children's and young person literature, for the past couple of years, I have participated in what is called Multicultural Children's Book Day where a group of bloggers, reviewers, and readers from all over the world come together to read a book that represents a different culture or experience. Last year for me was a Native American tale and this year is a book from the publishing company "Language Lizard" titled Amazing Sports from Around the World. This book is a quick read and highlights a few of the different and unusual sports that are played around the world. The book is also available in a multitude of languages from Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, and of course English which I understand and read. This book features a mixture of sports I was aware of like Quidditch - made famous from the UK book series of Harry Potter to Capoeira - the Brazilian MMA that is al...