February 2022 ~ Nighttime Reading Center

February 20, 2022

Book Review: I Celebrate My Skin

Book Title: I Celebrate My Skin

Author: Nonku Kunene Adumetey
Genres: Children, Diversity, Colorism, Confidence, Acceptance, Differences
Series: ?
Publisher: Nonku Corner Publishing
Publisher Date: November 25, 2020 (38 Pages, Hardcover)
ISBN: 9781735738215

I Celebrate My Skin is an inclusive children’s book about self-discovery and self-love. Focusing on celebrating and embracing skin tone diversity, I Celebrate My Skin is a fun and meaningful book you and your family will want to pick up again and again. The book includes modern illustrations that weave in a touch of traditional elements, playful language, and interactive fun activities at the end.

Discliamer: I received a free copy of this book though the author for an honest review. My thoughts and opinions are my own.
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I Celebrate My Skin is an excellent book to have on any child bookshelf. This book teaches the lesson of accepting yourself and being comfortable in your skin. It also talks about the different skin tones and how it is okay to be different.

Everyone is different and looks different. But accepting other skin tones is a good thing. There are many different skin tones in the world. This book teaches children about colorism, learning about their skin, and feeling comfortable with it.

The images are well done. They are colorful. Celebrating your skin is essential as it is what God created for you. This book also wants children or a child to celebrate love and being themselves and in their skin. The author does an outstanding job. In a time like today, this book stands needed to teach everyone that being yourself and being in your skin is good. It is an excellent way to learn to accept others who are different from you.

There are some activities in the back of the book to help children with colors and skin tone colors. Can they match their skin tone with the different skin tones in the book? There are quite a few different shades of them. Can you compare your skin to one in the book, and what name of the skin tone do you have. It is an excellent way for parents to help talk to their children or a child about skin tones.

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February 17, 2022

5:01 PM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Book Review: A Valentines Breakfast in Bed

Book Title: A Valentines Breakfast in Bed
Author: Roger Carlson
Genres: Children, Holidays, Valentines Day, Rhyming
Series: Mariana Books Rhyming #6
Publisher: Mariana Publishing
Publisher Date: January 18, 2021 (32 Pages, Paperback)
ISBN: 9781645100539

Valentine’s Day is a special day that is celebrated in most countries around the world. It is a day to express your love for your family and friends. Kids exchange cards at school to express their friendship. Flowers are handed out to those closest to you. On this special day two siblings Aniyah and Andres decide to do something extra special for the parents they love. This is a heartwarming story about two kids who made their parents day special.

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A Valentine's Breakfast in bed is a sweet story. It shows how the kids love their parents by making breakfast in bed on this special day. This book is excellent for showing love and showing that Valentine's day is for all types of love. Children will learn that Valentine's day is not just for the couple but for all those that we love.

This story is well done. The family in this story is a different one and different ethnicity. I enjoyed that as the author wants to show diversity. This one is good for this book and still has a black history month relation. I do not know if that stood to be that. I love that he has done so. It can stand shown that way and what this memorable holiday in the middle of February is all about.

The pictures are colorful. The story is mainly set on the two children making breakfast for their parents for this special day. They show it by making a few breakfast food for them. How will they enjoy the day with their mom and dad?

This book also will help children learn rhyming and some kindness and love. Parents will enjoy having this book along with the rest of the series on their bookshelves. They can read along with their children.

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February 13, 2022

10:57 PM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Book Review: Olive and the Valentine's Spell

Book Title: Olive and the Valentine's Spell
Author: Helen Millman
Publisher: Mascot Books
Publisher Date: February 1, 2022 (38 Pages, Hardcover)
Genres: Children, Fiction, Holiday, Valentine's Da, Picture Book

ISBN: 9781637550779

Olive is a sweet elementary school boy who is afraid to go to school on Valentine’s Day. . .because he thinks he’ll have to get married! Olive’s mom joins in his fight to defeat the “princess of love,” but along the way he learns an even bigger lesson, discovering the true meaning of love.

Olive and the Valentine’s Spell is an inspiring children’s book for all ages that shines a humorous light on Valentine’s Day and overcoming your fears.

Declaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this book from Mascot Kids and was under no obligation to write a positive or negative review of this book. It my honest review.
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I have come across another decent book about the upcoming holiday named Valentine's Day. Children seem to know what this holiday is about. But if you are looking for one that overcomes a child or children's fear. "Olive and the Valentine's Spell" is a good one. Olive feels that Valentine's day means getting married and a few other things as he tells his feelings to his mom. She wants to help fight with him. Olive seems to have to get rid of all his fun stuff at five years. He thinks he got to do some grown-up things.

Will Olive overcome his fears and enjoy the holiday. Will he see this holiday like any other day and there will be no love. Then maybe love comes in many different forms. Will Olive realizes that and wants this memorable holiday to stick around.

Olive seems confused at the beginning and will let his fears run wild. Children will learn that Valentine's day is a special day for couples. But it also showed what love is and how it can be. It also teaches about overcoming your fear. A parent can help children with reading this book. This book shows that love is essential, which is why we celebrate it.

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February 11, 2022

1:00 AM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Book Tour: Cindi's Chocolate Valentine by Beverley Reichman

Book Tile: Cindi's Chocolate Valentine
Author: Beverley Reichman
Genre: Children, Picture Books, Holiday, Valentines Day
Publisher: Book Baby
Publisher date: March 3, 2022 (36 Pages, Paperback)
ISBN: 9781667820576

Cindi isn’t sure about this holiday called Valentine’s Day, but after her people pair dress her up like a flamingo and take her for a walk in front of her friends, and her handsome new neighbor dog, Chip, she doesn’t like it at all! She and her BFF, Pitty Pat, have been watching Chip ever since he moved next door. She wants to meet him, but not like this! Have you ever changed your mind about something? In this outrageously funny story, meet some of Cindi’s fur-friends and find out if she changes her mind about Valentine’s Day.

Cindi’s Chocolate Valentine is an especially SPECIAL book because it features 17 pets that were chosen as winners in the Cindi Features a New Friend contest last summer. As you can imagine, their ‘people families’ are beyond excited about their pets being part of the story. They had over 750 pets, including dogs, cats, rabbits, horses, hedgehogs, and even a chicken, goat, donkey and monkey enter the contest!

Content Rating: G

Disclaimer: I received this book free from IReadBookTours for an honest review and for a book tour
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18% of the Cindi series book sale proceeds is
donated to animal rescue and shelter organizations.

You are looking for a lovable animal book for your child or children. Cindi's Chocolate Valentine does a beautiful job of showing your child that changing your mind about liking a holiday or not. It does it through a dog getting dressed up and learning what Valentine's day is.

Though Cindi is unsure what Valentine's day is or what is going on. She has paraded around with her buddy, Pitty Pat, and is outfitted together. She does not seem to like it one bit. But will Cindi change her mind?

The pictures are done well. You can find a way to enjoy a holiday or find out what you're unsure about and decide to change your mind. Maybe meeting someone new is hard, and that someone does something to help transform your mind about it. The pictures are colorful. Ever feel like something you did but did not like at first. Maybe something made you change your mind. That's okay to change your mind.

Cindi's Chocolate Valentine is a fun and enjoyable book; It just likes some suitable lessons to teach children or a child. Parents will enjoy this book as well. It is a quick and easy read. This book will show you, love, though animals, what Valentine's day is about.

Prize: Enter to win a signed copy of CINDI'S CHOCOLATE VALENTINE (one winner/USA only) (ends Feb 21)

Beverley Reichman is a devoted mom, retired elementary school teacher and author. She co-authored her first book, Justice and Honor for My Sister: The Story of Margie Grey in 2018 and published her first children’s book, Kevin Can, in 2019. The second book in her Kevin series, Kevin is a Smart Cookie, and the first book in her popular Cindi the Teenie Chiweenie series were published in 2020. Her delightful and beautifully illustrated Cindi book series include: Cindi’s Chocolate Valentine, Cindi and Sparkles Howl-oween Ghoulfriends and Cindi’s Christmas Kitten Surprise, which earned a 5-Star Readers’ Favorite review.

Beverley teaches, tutors, and mentors children and shares with them her passion for learning, literature, living in faith, and experiencing life to its fullest. Beverley currently resides outside of Atlanta, Georgia.

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BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE:

Feb 1 –Cover Lover Book Review – book review / giveaway
Feb 1 - Rockin' Book Reviews – book review / guest post / giveaway
Feb 2 – Splashes of Joy – book review / guest post / giveaway
Feb 2 -Sandra's Book Club – book review / giveaway
Feb 3 –@twilight_reader – book review
Feb 3 - Stephanie Jane – book spotlight / giveaway
Feb 4 –Kam's Place – book review
Feb 4 -Books are a Blessing – book review / giveaway
Feb 7 –Jazzy Book Reviews – book review / guest post / giveaway
Feb 7 - Captive Dreams Window – book review / giveaway
Feb 8 – Lamon Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Feb 8 - Literary Flits – book spotlight / giveaway
Feb 8 - Older & Smarter? - book review / giveaway
Feb 9 –icefairy's Treasure Chest – book review / giveaway
Feb 9 - The Phantom Paragrapher – book review
Feb 9 - fundinmental - book review / giveaway
Feb 10 - Lisa Everyday Life - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Feb 10 – Pause for Tales – book review / giveaway
Feb 10 -Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / giveaway
Feb 11 – A Mama's Corner of the World – book review / giveaway
Feb 11 - Nighttime Reading Center - book review / giveaway
Feb 11 - Books for Books – book review
Feb 14 - Reading is My Passion – book review
Feb 14 - Lisa's Reading – book spotlight / giveaway

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February 7, 2022

7:55 PM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Book Review: Until Leaves Fall in Paris

Book Title: Until Leaves Fall in Paris

Author: Sarah Sundin

Genres: Historical Fiction, France, Christian Fiction, World War II, Romance, Adult Fiction, Suspense
Publisher: Revell Reads
Published Date: February 1, 2022 (404 Pages, E-ARC)
ISBN: 9780800736361

As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but she finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books.

Widower Paul Aubrey wants nothing more than to return to the States with his little girl, but the US Army convinces him to keep his factory running and obtain military information from his German customers. As the war rages on, Paul offers his own resistance by sabotaging his product and hiding British airmen in his factory. After they meet in the bookstore, Paul and Lucie are drawn to each other, but she rejects him when she discovers he sells to the Germans. And for Paul to win her trust would mean betraying his mission.

Master of WWII-era fiction Sarah Sundin invites you onto the streets of occupied Paris to discover whether love or duty will prevail.

Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book though Revell Reads for an honest review. My thoughts and opinions are my own.
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Are you a history buff or a fan of historical fiction? Are you learning about World War II before the Americans entered the war? Desire to find out more about Nazi Germany and what Hitler did in France. Well, this book “Until Leaves Fall in Paris” by Sarah Sundin will take you on a lovely adventure and danger of two people trying to flee and get home save to America.

At this point, we have to meet Lucille and Paul. Will they learn to work together and see if they are made for each other? Will Lucie’s friends influence her to stay away from the new friend she meets and enjoy the company of?

Hitler and Germany are now really somewhat abetted in Paris, France. Is America still unaligned, or are they getting ready to jump in and fight? Both Paul and Lucie have stayed in Paris for two different reasons. The other was convinced to remain; and help the US, while the other chose to help her fled friends.

We are dealing with more resistant and some Germans. The Germans are occupying more of Parisians. Lucille and Paul are doing some dangerous work. Will they be found out?

Paul seems to have detected bad things in his factory. But Will his worker blackmail him? Lucille finds out Paul is working for the US. Paul finds out the bookseller is involved.

What will happen to Josie? Will they all get out safely?

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February 1, 2022

8:48 PM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Monthly Wrap up: January 2022

Welcome to 2022.. January is a a new year and new month. Hope all is doing better. We are having a cold and snow January. I have some amazing new books that are all unique. They were all children book this year. I love bring in each year differently. First time I read a total of 4 books in a month. Mostly are book tours and review books.

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Books Read in January:

If Puppies Had Pockets by Lyn Willy
A Celebration of Winter by Roger Carlson
Hello! Hometown Heroes by Toni Armier
Helping Hats by Regina C. Brown

My books really fell in 1 different genres for this month. They are in 2 different media categories I believe as well. They will be shown below.

Books by Genre:

Children - 4 Book

Books by Media Categories:

Paperback - 2 Books
Board Book - 2 Book

I have read a total of 124 Pages, for the month of January. I am finally back to reading around what I think I can for a month. The total for 2022 is 124 Pages and 0.00 Hours of Listening.

Books by Pages Total:

If Puppies Had Pockets - 8 Pages
A Celebration of Winter - 34 Pages
Hello! Hometown Heroes - 24 Pages
Helping Hats - 58 Pages

Total Pages by Month:

January - 124 Pages

Total books by Month:

January - 4 Books

Favorite Book of the Month:

My Review for Hello! Hometown Heroes

Get to Know the Everyday Heroes in Your Hometown Hello Hometown Heroes is a charming and fun read-along board book that introduces children to the people who make our neighborhoods and lives better. Follow along as a little boy, his mother, and his dog walk through town, meeting and greeting everyday heroes along the way. With gently rhyming text and engaging illustrations, Hello Hometown Heroes introduces young readers to the people in our neighborhoods who make our lives safer, cleaner, and better. From the mail carrier and sanitation workers to firefighters, doctors, nurses, and more, the text succinctly describes what each hero does, and then provides children the opportunity to say "hello" to them. The final spread shows the whole town with each hero doing what they do . . . along with a simple act of heroism the child performs--proving that all you need to be an everyday hero is a little bit of kindness and thoughtfulness.

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Here is everything that been posted for the year. Some things have been will be posted later then when I read the book or reviewed it. Most cases this is when a book is on tour with me. The Book review may be posted later or a month or so done the line. I will gladly mark these when I read the book so you know.