Giraffe lives in a comfortable cave in a cozy kingdom in the middle of Montana. His friends include the king and queen, a know-it-all raccoon, two kangaroos, one mole, one elephant, a footman’s son named Fergus, and two princesses, both named Isabel.

In the same manner as Volume I, the stories found in Volume II teach values such as cooperation, forgiveness, bravery, and self-identity.When Giraffe and his friends build a pavilion as their community center, they argue about its name. Can they stop fighting and agree on what to call it?

When Queen Isabel asks Giraffe to save Camelot from a merciless dragon, Giraffe concocts a perilous plan. Can he subdue the monster or has Giraffe met his match?

Young children can find life confusing when grappling with new terms. Mary Wright’s insightful book Grandma Spoils Me is a poignant reminder that new words can have a power over a young child’s life. Henry is trying to determine whether or not his Grandma spoils him, and takes a journey of discovery and self-realization until he learns that his grandma spoils him with love and affection rather than material things. He realizes that it is not a bad thing to have a surplus of love, and grows to cherish the relationship with his Grandma.

Don’t Eat the Bluebonnets, is a delightful romp with a sassy cow named Sue Ellen who loves the taste of bluebonnets.

Sue Ellen is constantly being tempted by the yummy bluebonnets in her pasture. Max, the Longhorn, tells her they won’t come back if they are eaten, but when she can no longer stand the temptation that the flowers present she eats all the bluebonnets she can see.

To everyone’s dismay, the next spring the flowers don’t come back so Sue Ellen must solve this problem she has created.

So having a mind of her own, Sue Ellen decided she could…look at the bluebonnets…smell the bluebonnets…lick the bluebonnets…but she could not eat the bluebonnets.

Cha-Cha and ZEE are penguin siblings who travel around the United States, bringing the adventures of exciting destinations to young readers. The penguins explore Washington, D.C., San Antonio, San Francisco, New York City and eventually Europe. During their San Antonio stop, Cha Cha and ZEE meet their cousin, Frobby.  Together, the three of them:

• Shop in El Mercado
• Eat Mexican food on the River Walk
• Explore historic La Villita
• Visit all five of the missions
• Enjoy a bird’s eye view of the city

And of course, remember the Alamo!

Coyote Jack overlays a fascinating exposition of life and death in the most enigmatic of American conflicts with an individual’s struggle to free himself from the real enemy that stands ready to thwart a full and authentic life. Through Jack we live in sandbag bunkers, bathe out of wells, and dodge booby traps as he learns the privations and landmines of his personal life are as complex as the clashing cultures and divisive politics that created, and ended, the war in Vietnam.

Flood of Memories is a collection of family stories which depict the character and personality of our parents and grandparents.  The authors have named them “The Cast-Iron Generation.”    The thematic organization of the book presents pictures of the lives of the authors and how the entire family lived during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

The opening chapters give an account of the family’s adventures during the Great Ohio River Flood of 1937; the following sections present individual memoirs,  anecdotes (amusing, or character-building), and a string of activities, all of which reveal how a middle-class  family lived through depression, flood, war, and a terrible accident.  The importance of this work is the fact that it is typical of most average families of the mid-20th Century.    

Who are we? Who decided that we were “African Americans?” How did the world conclude that to be our designation? As children growing up we were called, with apparent acceptance “Colored people.” By the time the Civil Rights Movement was ushered in by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we were elevated to the respectable status of “Negro.” In college, I saw us move to “Afro American” and then to the preferred “Black American,” which I thought represented the result of the efforts of slain martyrs like Medgar Evers and Dr. Martin Luther King, who perished so that we could be known as Black Americans. They died so that we could move forward and share in the fruits of our labor in America.

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