It's official! It's exciting! Sarah's Song has been nominated for the Cybils Awards!!!
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If I Weren't with You
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"Beautifully written book, with beautiful pictures!
My 3 year old son and I love this book! He asks me to read it to him every evening." by Paco T., Amazon customer
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5-star Review by Anitra Rowe Schulte, Journalist, Writer, Mother
"If your family is anything like mine, you have WORN OUT your copies of "Guess How Much I Love You" and "God Gave Us You."
Ready for a picture book reboot?
Enter If I Weren't With You - a title reminiscent of these new-ish classics, but with a deeper focus: Quelling our children's biggest worries and most persistent fears.
The story opens with a little bear named Willy playing in the woods, while his mom stands nearby. As the two bears walk among butterflies, and through hills and trees, Willy begins asking his mom some very serious questions:
What if I got lost in the woods?
What if a hunter took me?
Would you give up and forget me?
Willy's questions all have the same angle. What he seeks - what every child seeks - is certitude of his mother's devotion and protection. To Willy, safety and security can be understood, so long as he knows that his mom would do anything for him... and stop at nothing to save him.
Through vivid nature-driven examples and illustrations, Mama Bear assures Willy: Her love for him is constant and endless.
As a parent, I gotta tell ya...
Merely thinking of my kids being taken away from me is enough to give me a panic attack. Our children aren't immune to this. They live in the same world that we do. They see the nightly news and hear stories of loss and death.
Kids know - if only abstractly, or through the lens of cartoon characters - that there are bad forces out there, just out of view. Things that have the power to separate them from what they know and love. From us.
To provide stability in the face of Willy's uncertainty, Mama Bear offers unwavering assurances that she will never give up on her son and never forget him.
Once Willy gets his pressing questions answered, he is grounded by simply hearing the words "I love you" from Mama Bear. With that, mom and cub resume the physical and emotional closeness that gives both of them such fulfillment.
It's a pitch-perfect ending to a book that both confronts and comforts - and all on a child's level."
5-star Review by Anitra Rowe Schulte, Journalist, Writer, Mother
"If your family is anything like mine, you have WORN OUT your copies of "Guess How Much I Love You" and "God Gave Us You."
Ready for a picture book reboot?
Enter If I Weren't With You - a title reminiscent of these new-ish classics, but with a deeper focus: Quelling our children's biggest worries and most persistent fears.
The story opens with a little bear named Willy playing in the woods, while his mom stands nearby. As the two bears walk among butterflies, and through hills and trees, Willy begins asking his mom some very serious questions:
What if I got lost in the woods?
What if a hunter took me?
Would you give up and forget me?
Willy's questions all have the same angle. What he seeks - what every child seeks - is certitude of his mother's devotion and protection. To Willy, safety and security can be understood, so long as he knows that his mom would do anything for him... and stop at nothing to save him.
Through vivid nature-driven examples and illustrations, Mama Bear assures Willy: Her love for him is constant and endless.
As a parent, I gotta tell ya...
Merely thinking of my kids being taken away from me is enough to give me a panic attack. Our children aren't immune to this. They live in the same world that we do. They see the nightly news and hear stories of loss and death.
Kids know - if only abstractly, or through the lens of cartoon characters - that there are bad forces out there, just out of view. Things that have the power to separate them from what they know and love. From us.
To provide stability in the face of Willy's uncertainty, Mama Bear offers unwavering assurances that she will never give up on her son and never forget him.
Once Willy gets his pressing questions answered, he is grounded by simply hearing the words "I love you" from Mama Bear. With that, mom and cub resume the physical and emotional closeness that gives both of them such fulfillment.
It's a pitch-perfect ending to a book that both confronts and comforts - and all on a child's level."
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"Mama, if I weren't born, what would you do?" Willy starts a conversation with mama Bear while he's on the move, acting like a natural youngster. In a series of simple and direct questions, the bear cub seeks and receives his mother's reassurance of love and security as the two take a walk in the forest. Mama Bear uses imagery of the forest to communicate her feelings to her cub.
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If I Weren't With You now available on Amazon
and Barnes & Noble
Fourth grade prankster Hailey feels like an alien in her own world until an alien comes into her life and shows her what it means to be human.
Like a secret agent from ‘Prankistania’ Hailey is always prepared, pulling practical jokes on everyone. But to her puzzlement, no one is laughing. Especially her parents and Hailey’s attempts to get their attention bring her the wrong kind: punishments. She might even lose her big 10th birthday party. But when things get worse, Hailey does what Hailey knows best: pranking. All the way to the principal’s office.
With her secret alien visitor, who keeps the pranks coming, will Hailey find a way out of her mess, save her birthday and her friendship? And when the secret is out, will Hailey be the one caught by surprise?
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Sarah's Song by Rosie J. Pova
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"Sarah's relationship with her grandma changes as Grandma ages and can no longer do some of their favorite activities. Sarah wants things to go back to the way they were, but of course that's not possible. In this kind and affectionate story, Sarah figures out how to tweak a family tradition to keep her connection with her grandma strong."
– Laura Purdie Salas, author of Meet My Family! Animal Babies and Their Families, laurasalas.com
"Sarah's relationship with her grandma changes as Grandma ages and can no longer do some of their favorite activities. Sarah wants things to go back to the way they were, but of course that's not possible. In this kind and affectionate story, Sarah figures out how to tweak a family tradition to keep her connection with her grandma strong."
– Laura Purdie Salas, author of Meet My Family! Animal Babies and Their Families, laurasalas.com
Reader review:
"Pova delivers again!
What a touching tale about the bond between grandmother and granddaughter, and how music makes that connection stronger and more beautiful. Rosie J. Pova pulls on the heartstrings again with this lovely story. So much heart, like her previous work, IF I WEREN'T WITH YOU. Pova is adept in creating loving, powerful relationships between her main characters."
"Pova delivers again!
What a touching tale about the bond between grandmother and granddaughter, and how music makes that connection stronger and more beautiful. Rosie J. Pova pulls on the heartstrings again with this lovely story. So much heart, like her previous work, IF I WEREN'T WITH YOU. Pova is adept in creating loving, powerful relationships between her main characters."
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Alayne Kay Chrisian modeling her copy
