Rick and Bobo was written by brothers, Nick and James Ventrillo. This unique book is well written with an imaginative plot, while still firmly based in reality. It will appeal to young adults and adults who are young at heart, especially if you have a...

I was hooked from the moment I read the Prologue of Just a Common Lady. Karen Pirnot knows who she is and she is proud of it. She does not have to put on airs and pretend to be one of the elite. Pirnot cares...

Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Award WinnerEvery time I pick up my grandchildren they ask for a Buddy story. Buddy is our German shepherd. It is a long drive home. When they were toddlers, they would get bored so I began telling them stories about Buddy....

Readers' Favorite Silver Medal Award Winner"A Colorful Day" by Karen Hutchins Pirnot is a delightful book for young children. Each page rhymes and has a corresponding picture. Purple cows, turquoise horses and a bright red dolphin are among the animals that adorn this book. Taryn...

Pookie was different. She was a blue penguin and all of her friends were black penguins. Her mother tried to explain to her that she was a special penguin but Pookie just felt different. Some of the other penguins teased her. Pookie felt like she...

Khaya Dawn Klanot clearly expresses the definition of a real friend in her poem "A True Friend". In "A Rainbow of Moods", the author expresses the emotions and moods that she associates with colors. Parents will appreciate the words in "A Very Busy Family". "My...

One summer day, during the excitement of a baseball game, there was an accident, lives were changed forever. Peter Michael Henderson hit the ball and slid into first base. The second baseman and pitcher collided. One of them fell on Peter’s head and severed his...

Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Award WinnerGina Hutchins Inman is a German-American citizen. In her desire to give to those less fortunate than herself, she traveled to Owamboland, Namibia, Africa where she spent 8 weeks with the children of the Twaahililwa School. She enjoyed the simplicity...

The setting for Pat Gillespie’s Cynthia Morgan Story is the plantations of New Orleans. The author will keep the reader wondering what is fact and fiction. Catherine Habersham-Fairbanks and her husband Morgan were about to have their first child, a little girl. No woman in the...

Eight year old Allie was swept away during a flash flood. The spunky little girl kept her head by remembering things her grandfather had told her. She thought through her situation and kept her head. "Clear headed action" was what he always said. Plan A...

Skye the Troll and other Fairy Tales for Children is a collection of short fairy tales and poems for young children. I love how each is broken down into different stories, so you can pick different ones to read each night to your child....

This book's cover is an eye-catcher with beautifully illustrated pictures. The story line is short and precise without being too brief to not capture your interest. Whether you are reading it for yourself or a child, it will take you away to a simple time...

This is a poem about Halloween night, how eerie it feels with the moon shinning bright, casting shadows. The stillness in the pumpkin patch, the cornstalks and scarecrow, but wait, did that scarecrow lurch in the moonlight? Can that really happen? Another feeling is the chilly...

Unstoppable Confidence: A Life-Changing Workbook by Astrid Harris is a six course workbook to help those who have no confidence in themselves or for those who work in the field of counseling to help with their clients. How many times have you had to give...

This book is definitely intended for little girls, with the use of colors like pink, purple, yellow, and light green looming out from the cover illustrations. The illustrator, Julie Ross, created a dreamy image of a little girl lost in imagination. Each image matches the...

'The Colors of Myself' by Dr. Karen Hutchins Pirnot is written in poetry prose form of illustrations of a four-year-old child in which his illustrations are painted to represent the thoughts in his mind. The words relate to the child's feelings during the time he...

Joel and his young friends are pot smoking, carefree people with little thought for their futures. Worried about the Grimm Reaper and his threat to unleash a nuclear holocaust, the group goes on a camping trip. Rain forces them home where they find the town...

"3 Off the Tee" is the first in a series of four books. Its cover was clever, with the depiction of a business man wearing a suit lying on the golf course with a tee in his mouth and a golf club getting ready to...

Any Stevens and Wade Hamilton had been friends since their early childhood. They both wanted to fly fighter jets. The US Navy gave the opportunity. They attended the US Naval Academy together. They also served in the same POW camp during the Vietnam War. They...

The book "Adventures with Scarlet the Dolphin: Green Sea Turtles" by author Jennifer Wallis is a deep sea ocean adventure about a young girl named Hailey and her very best friend, a dolphin by the name of Scarlet. Hailey and her friend Scarlet embark on...