Mrs. D

I rarely order books for children. This one did catch my eye with it’s colorful cover. Anytime the topic includes our environment and how to love our mother earth, I get excited. This is a story to share and to pass down. It is a powerful message to carry with us always. Nature will nurture and love us if we return the favor.

The Trees Have Hearts and voices! The author inspires the reader to see nature through the eyes of a child. The Trees Have Hearts by Mrs. D. is a brilliant and beautiful children’s book. The illustrations are just wonderful and the story is sweetly told to connect one with nature. One to be enjoyed by adults or a book to read to your child. Children will love reading this one too!… (mehr)

Once upon a time they told us babies were brought by storks, but today’s children are more likely to know they grow in mommy’s tummy. Baby from the Moon combines both stories, giving the baby a pre-birth existence where he longs for his fair-haired mother, followed by a frantic flight over the earth where the stork finds all the wonderful moms who houses are already full, till he eventually finds one longing for Baby.

From here, the story takes on a real-world sense, with food cravings, voices heard through the pool where baby swims, to birth with its pushing and mom saying she’ll never go through this again. When the baby arrives, love conquers all, and the moon and stars look down.

Baby from the Moon is a sweet story, a nicely modern take on the old stork tale, and a pleasingly real introduction to where babies might really come from. It’s beautifully illustrated with convincing character, whimsical dream, and bright colors, one picture across from each page of clear black-and-white text, an enjoyable book.

Disclosure: I was given a free ecopy and I offer my honest review.… (mehr)

Olga D���Agostino���s story, The Little Girl Praying on the Hill, evokes soliloquy elements with her monologue of a lonely girl���s friendship with the wind and her imaginary friend, the ���snow-white princess���, who represents ���the doll she never had.���
This is a sad story of a child���s feelings of helplessness as she tries to cope with her alcoholic father who continually humiliates and beats up on her mother. The only way her brothers and sisters can protect their mother is by hiding her under the piles of hay in the barn while the father is on a drunken rampage. Yet the young child feels conflicting emotions between the love she has for her father and her despair as she watches his cruelty towards her mother.
There is no love in the young girl���s life; the mother is too exhausted from her long days toiling on the farm, and the alcoholic father is emotionally unable to fulfill his role of husband and parent. She finds solace from her loveless world by embracing the beauty and stability of nature: ���the blue sky became her escape from reality���. Love only comes to her when she imagines herself dead���only then does the mother show her affection by mourning for her loss child.
This is a poignant story���a variation from the author���s usual child-oriented stories���but one that will remind you of the stark reality lived by other children around us who are starving for love. Well done, Olga D���Agostino, this story will bring tears to many.
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Mrs. D. has written a sweet tale about the pains of a young girl growing up in a new country. Singled out and ostracized because she speaks a different language, she turns to the trees in her garden for friendship and comfort. They communicate through a universal language, one that emanates from a spiritual connection of the heart. The tree friends provide a refuge from the rejection she experiences at the hands of the other children in the neighborhood and help to compensate for the loneliness of being the only child of a hard-working singe-parent.
The story presents a deep respect for nature and all living things. The trees become an oasis for the outcast, they will always be there ready to listen and comfort.
The illustrations are delightful and follow the young girl's emotional journey in her quest to gain acceptance in the new world. She must learn to deal with the transitions of change, not an easy task when it involves deep-rooted emotional ties.
Just as the trees became a sanctuary for the young lonely girl, this book can very well be a refuge for the parent seeking help for a child living rejection at school or at home. A must read for those who believe in the heart of trees.
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