Today marks the fourth week of my biography focus and these heroic personalities were an absolute delight for me to discover. You can backtrack and meet the folks introduced earlier via the posts here, here, and here. Perkin’s Perfect Purple: …
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a parade of people!
Welcome to this week’s parade of people. Besides the outstanding folks we’re meeting today, you can find earlier installments of weekly biographies here and here. Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson’s Journey to the Stars written by Gary Golio, …
a world-ful of interesting folks!
Every March I enjoy the opportunity to read and share excellent biographies of women from around the world and across time who have been influential in an extraordinary variety of ways. And every February my Black History posts feature powerful …
transported by fiction…middle grade reads to take you new places
Fiction is magical. It can transport us to distant lands or fantastical worlds. It can take us inside others’ minds, into lived experiences utterly distinct from our own. It can fling us into wild adventures providing a dash of spice …
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here, there, and everywhere…a list of five
Today we’re journeying about the globe… by river, by sailing ship, by breakfast menu…discovering everything from peace-makers to parathas. Feed your curiosity with these fascinating books! Pancakes to Parathas: Breakfast Around the World, written by Alice B. McGinty, illustrated by …
a fountain of joy…April is Poetry Month!
I’m celebrating National Poetry Month on Orange Marmalade with a trio of posts in April. Reading poetry is a lovely way to slow down, savor words, spark imagination, see with fresh eyes. This first poetry post features several collections vibrant …
Tour the World: Destination: West Africa plus a Book Giveaway!!
Our last week in Africa brings us to the West, an area dear to my heart. I wrote an entire post on West Africa in the midst of the Ebola crisis which so devastated several regions there. A number of …
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