I’m on my tenth year of writing poems every day in February—except that in 2016 I wrote a poem every other day, so really it’s the ninth year of poems every day, and the tenth year of February poems.
Here’s a sampling of a few so far this month, and a bit about how they came to be.
lost and found
spider’s sticky net’s gone missing from shed’s shingles next to the plum tree
On February 3, I was having a busy day and thought I’d keep the task compact with a haiku. I also wanted to write about my husband’s wonderful discovery of a hummingbird nest in the tree outside our living room window. A short poetry form, and especially one that tends to be about nature, was fitting for the topic. What I wanted to say didn’t quite fit into a haiku, but worked well as a tanka (5-7-5-7-7 syllables).
All the characters in the “Lost and Found” poem are in this photo. Look for the hummingbird toward the right, equidistant from the top and bottom. The bird is blurry, which I think is a fine way for a hummingbird to appear.
Variations on a Bumper Sticker
PLEASE BE PATIENT STUDENT DRIVER
Please be patient, student driver.
Please be a student of a patient driver.
Pleas: Be a student; Be a patient driver.
Please have patience with students and drivers.
Please be a student of patience, drivers.
Please have patience with patients, students, and drivers.
Please realize some patients are students and drivers.
On February 12, I was taking a walk with my dog. This is prime poem development time for me. The “PLEASE BE PATIENT / STUDENT DRIVER” bumper sticker caught my eye. I liked the idea of switching the two main words to create “Please be a student of a patient driver” (the second variation in the final poem). I struggled on and off all day trying to write a poem about that idea, and then came to realize there were many more variations, and a list poem was much more interesting and illustrated the idea better. Another time that I am reminded to show, don’t tell.
Daniel Ari has been writing a limerick every day based on the previous day’s Wordle over on Facebook for months. You can peruse this very entertaining endeavor here. I recommend it highly with a caveat to my children’s book crowd that many of the poems are of a PG-13 nature. Daniel occasionally varies the limerick form by adding more pairs of the shorter lines. He coined the excellent term “limeriff.” I’ve been wanting to try one and, on February 15, found a topic that fit.
It’s Poetry Friday. Enjoy many more Friday poems, by visiting this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup at Molly Hogan’s Nix the Comfort Zone. Molly is in Maine, where the trees are in a different stage from our plum here in California. Her poem and photos remind me of the beauty and strength of trees in snow. Thank you, Molly!
Today is the first January 27 in 93 years without my cousin Ira, zikhroyne-livrokhe (may his memory be a blessing). On January 27, 2006, on his 76th birthday, the United Nations held the first designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to remember the millions of lives lost in the Holocaust and encourage education to help prevent future genocide. That day was also the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps.
Ira was not a Holocaust survivor, he was born and lived in the US, but he was my last living relative who had physically been with members of our family who were murdered in the Holocaust. His parents and he traveled by boat in 1932-33 to what was then Poland and is now Ukraine to visit his father’s family. Here is a picture taken during that trip of Ira with his parents (at left) and with his grandfather and step-grandmother, and some of his aunts, uncles, and cousins.
By the end of that trip, Ira’s father wanted to stay in Europe. It’s easy to imagine how being reunited with his family of origin would leave him yearning to do so. He was visiting them for the first time since he’d immigrated to the United States in his early 20s, eleven years before. But Ira’s mother could see that the situation was not good for them in Europe and convinced her husband to return to New York—a decision that most likely saved their lives. Not many years later when some of these same relatives tried to get papers to emigrate, they could not. To my knowledge none of the other people in this photo survived the war, but it is my hope that maybe some of the younger children did and didn’t remember their family’s names to get in touch.
When I think of the importance of remembering the Holocaust in recent years, I’m acutely aware that the last of the Holocaust survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust are in very old age. I wonder and worry about how that will impact our global memory of this horrific act of genocide and our vigilance to prevent both antisemitism and any kind of genocide. There was a powerful connection in knowing that, even though it was before his memory, the cousin I chatted with about family history and the current state of the world, among other things, had been present in an area where parts of my family had lived for generations, but where their culture is now erased.
Ira was also one of my few remaining family members who spoke Yiddish, a language I’ve dearly loved learning over the past few years. I was beginning to be able to speak with him a bit in Yiddish, and he liked sharing favorite words and phrases with me and seeing what I knew. I was always trying to discern more about his accent. I miss those conversations and that vital connection to the language of our ancestors.
Ira valued the perpetuation and vitality of Jewish culture and Yiddish language, and became a donor to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. One of many ways to honor this day is to visit their website and see what you discover: https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/.
On this day, I think of the importance of remembering—remembering history and remembering loved ones. And I am glad we have many resources to help us remember.
Happy Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCBD) 2023! Use the #ReadYourWorld hashtag today and every day to find books that give more children opportunities to see people and characters like themselves and give everyone opportunities to see the rich and true diversity of people in our world.
This year I am grateful to Nancy Tupper Ling for sending me a review copy of For Every Little Thing: Poems and Prayers to Celebrate the Day. This picture-book format collection of poems, selected by June Cotner and Nancy Tupper Ling and illustrated by Helen Cann, is a Junior Library Guild selection.
For Every Little Thing cover image
For Every Little Thing is filled with evoking details of life— “tiny shells,” “the soft purr of a sleeping kitten,” “noodly soup,” ”the playful sounds of day.” And through those details, the collection speaks of larger themes: wonder, gratitude, connection, family, spirit. Its verses use of the word “God,” but the collection is not strongly tied to any particular spiritual practice.
illustration that accompanies “Hearts in My Pocket,” For Every Little Thing, p. 53
The styles of poetry and the poets themselves further depict our varied and wondrous world. The authors of the poems range from people who lived long ago, like Emily Dickinson and Helen Keller, to modern poets, including an eight-year poet, and spiritual leaders like Amma and Rabbi Rami Shapiro. The poems are short and long, rhyming and not-rhyming, structured and free verse. They are filled with moments that make the reader (or at least this one) pause in awe or contemplation and feel the relaxation and opening that comes with that.
“Tonight…” poem and illustration (half spread), For Every Little Thing, p. 78
Helen Cann’s artwork is both rich with details and leaves plenty of white space. This works perfectly with the poetry to provide space to focus and notice the big feelings that small details can bring. The diverse aspect of this book depicted in the images is more through visible race than through clothing and customs.
“Simple Graces” poem and illustration (full spread), For Every Little Thing, pp. 43–44
For Every Little Thing is the kind of book that has fed my lifelong love of picture books. It feels solid in my hands. Every spread has visual and verbal delights. It is fun both to open at random and to read in order and experience its structure. The poems are organized around themes such as “Morning,” “Love and Kindness,” “Family and Friends,” “Nightfall,” and “Dreams.”
Nightfall section opening, For Every Little Thing, p. 59
The “Nightfall” and “Dreams” sections could be used by families to choose poems or prayers for bedtime rituals. The entire book is a plentiful resource for youth spiritual educators.
I was struck as I spent time with the book and read its introduction that its aim is very similar to that of My Amazing Day, the board book I wrote in partnership with photographer Lori A. Cheung and designer Elizabeth Iwamiya. Both center on noticing the wonder in everyday things and becoming conscious of that wonder through language, which leads to gratitude. Though My Amazing Day is secular, much more brief, and for a younger audience. For Every Little Thing strikes me as a perfect book for older children in families who love My Amazing Day and for whom the word “God” is part of their spirituality.
Wishing you many wonder-full discoveries on MCBD and always!
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Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2023 (1/26/22) is celebrating its 10th year! This non-profit children’s literacy initiative was founded by Valarie Budayr and Mia Wenjen; two diverse book-loving moms who saw a need to shine the spotlight on all of the multicultural books and authors on the market while also working to get those books into the hands of young readers and educators.
Ten years in, MCBD’s mission is to raise awareness of the ongoing need to include kids’ books that celebrate diversity in homes and school bookshelves continues. Read about our Mission & History HERE.
MCBD 2023 is honored to be Supported by these Medallion Sponsors!
Join us on Thursday, January 26, 2023, at 9 pm EST for the 10th annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day Read Your World Virtual Party!
This epically fun and fast-paced hour includes multicultural book discussions, addressing timely issues, diverse book recommendations, & reading ideas.
We will be giving away a 10-Book Bundle during the virtual party plus Bonus Prizes as well! *** US and Global participants welcome. **
Follow the hashtag #ReadYourWorld to join the conversation, and connect with like-minded parts, authors, publishers, educators, organizations, and librarians. We look forward to seeing you all on January 26, 2023, at our virtual party!
Happy National Poetry Month! I’ve admired the progressive poem tradition as a reader for many years. I’m pleased that I was at the right blog at the right time this year to get to sign up and participate.
Before I get to the progressive poem, I’m taking a National-Poetry-Month moment to say “Yay, poetry!” Many poets write a poem-a-day this month. (Go, poets!) I’ve done that in Februarys with my online poetry group for eight-and-a-half years (the half because one year I wrote every other day). That practice, along with writing poetry in general, has given me many gifts. Writing poetry helps me remember significant events, novel thoughts, and stunning sensory experiences. Writing poetry also helps me process events that are hard to get my mind (or heart) around. The practice of writing poetry improves my writing in general. And I haven’t even touched on the inspiration in reading poetry. Happy National Poetry Month—read ’em, write ’em, enjoy!
Irene Latham began this year’s progressive poem with a line from a book. Others followed, though some have worked with lines from poems and movie soundtracks. So far, the poem is a sort of cento (“sort of” because a cento usually uses lines from poems—I wrote a cento based on poems for children for National Poetry Month in 2015).
Here is the 2022 Progressive Poem as of April 13, with my newly added line at its end:
Where they were going there were no maps. (1 Irene)
“Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not today.” (2 Donna)
Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! (3 Catherine)
“We have to go back. I forgot something.” (4 Mary Lee)
It’s spring, and the world is puddle-wonderful, we’ll whistle and dance and set off on our way. (5 Buffy)
“Come with me, and you’ll be in a land of pure imagination.” (6 Linda M.)
Wherever you go, take your hopes, pack your dreams, and never forget—it is on our journeys that discoveries are made. (7 Kim)
And then it was time for singing. (8 Rose)
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain, paint with all the colors of the wind, freewheeling through an endless diamond sky? (9 Carol)
Suddenly, they stopped and realized they weren’t the only ones singing. (10 Linda B.)
Listen, a chattering of monkeys! Let’s smell the dawn and taste the moonlight, we’ll watch it all spread out before us. (11 Janet)
The moon is slicing through the sky. We whisper to the tree, tap on the trunk, imagine it feeling our sound. (12 Jone)
Clouds of blue-winged swallows, rain from up the mountain, (13 Karin)
The sources of the lines are:
The Imaginaries: Little Scraps of Larger Stories, by Emily Winfield Martin
The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
inspired by “[in Just-]” by E. E. Cummings
“Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Maybe by Kobi Yamada
Sarah, Plain, and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
inspired by Disney songs “A Whole New World” from Aladdin and “Colors of the Wind” form Pocahontes
The Other Way to Listen by Byrd Baylor
adapted from Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman
adapted from The Magical Imperfect by Chris Baron
adapted from On the Same Day in March by Marilyn Singer
My son and I both have March birthdays, so On the Same Day in March: A Tour of the World’s Weather, by Marilyn Singer and illustrated by Frané Lessac, has been a treasure for many reasons. I love the way Marilyn Singer uses poetic language to give readers a tangible sense of how people all over the world have a wide variety of weather experiences on a single day.
The text I chose for my line in the progressive poem comes from the spread on Xian, China, which asks, “What will the wind carry today? / Clouds of blue-winged swallows, / dust that hurts their eyes, / rain from up the mountain, / kites shaped like butterflies?” When I wondered where to go from the monkeys, moon, and tree in the previous lines of the progressive poem, flocks of birds came to mind. The abundance and movement of those swallows fit right into the poem’s story. And I imagined the mountain rain, two lines later, slicing through the sky along with the moon in Jone’s line and bringing out the smells of dawn in Janet’s line. Where will Denise take us next?
You can read the poets’ posts about the 2022 Progressive Poem at these blogs:
As a lifelong fan of number patterns, I have been looking forward to this day for quite a while. Yes, I even took a screen shot on my phone at 2:22. If I could have done something about that battery percentage, I would have. At least it’s (2 + 2/2)2 x (2 + 2/2) x 2.
Poetry is such a fine way to have a souvenir of a moment in time. Here’s what I wrote two-day:
Twosday
Day twenty-two of month two of the year twenty twenty-two falls on a Tuesday— that’s today.
To tribute the fleeting beatitude of this totally tubular today stay tuned . . .
To celebrate, go beyond true: put on a tutu over your tunic tuck petunias into your hair get out your tuning fork and tune up your tuba then toot a tune with attitude, hop on a tule elk tooting all the way to Tomales Bay then continue by tuna and be sure to take an innertube for your tureen to partake in tubers with turmeric while you ride with that tuna toward Tunisia tooting your tuba in gratitude for the tune of twos till it’s time to say toodle-oo to this Twosday.
Edited to add: I’m savoring the Twosday event a little longer by participating in Poetry Friday this week. Head over to The Miss Rumphius Effect blog for all the links and to learn about an intriguing poetry activity, well-executed : https://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/2022/02/poetry-friday-is-here.html
Happy Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCBD) 2022!! For this year’s MCBD, I was delighted to receive a copy of One Whole Me: A Book about Being Bicultural written by Dia Mixon and illustrated by Natalia Jiménez Osorio. A big, warm thank you to Dia Mixon for the beautiful book and for being an author sponsor of MCBD!
In well-crafted rhyme, One Whole Me describes what it is like to be bicultural with the repeating refrain “two different [languages, families, histories, etc.], make one whole me.” What a perfect book to celebrate this day!
cover of One Whole Me
Mixon’s lyric language describes a specific character’s bicultural identity with fun, engaging, and sometimes educational examples from the United States and Columbia. She also presents a general situation that can apply to anyone with a multicultural background. From my own life experience, I know that it can be too easy to not feel fully part of any of the cultures in one’s rich background. Messages from others create that situation. Mixon alludes to these difficulties in the opening of the book, but she does not dwell on them. Instead she focuses on the positive, always landing on the powerful words, “one whole me.” The words “one” and “whole” can be healing to those who have already received negative messages. But this book and this day offer hope that strong, positive messages about the beauty of who we are, exactly as we are, will be well-established in children’s minds and hearts before negative messages begin to reach them.
excerpt from One Whole Me
Mixon includes a few Spanish words in each spread, most of which are understandable in context or because of their similarity to an English equivalent. A glossary in the back of the book provides more definitions and information. The Spanish words make the rhyming, rhythmic language all the more fun to read aloud. The experience of another language getting mixed to English will be familiar to many families whether that language is Spanish or another one.
Osorio’s warm, colorful illustrations portray the everyday joy that emanates throughout this book—and create a sense of the abundance of rich elements that make up the narrator’s one whole life.
Be sure to check out the MCBD 2022 Giant Linky to see the book reviews of more books that reflect the rich diversity of who each of us is and of those who we share this world with. And read below for more information on MCBD 2022. #ReadYourWorld
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Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2022 (1/28/22) is in its 9th year! This non-profit children’s literacy initiative was founded by Valarie Budayr and Mia Wenjen; two diverse book-loving moms who saw a need to shine the spotlight on all of the multicultural books and authors on the market while also working to get those books into the hands of young readers and educators.
MCBD’s mission is to raise awareness of the ongoing need to include kids’ books that celebrate diversity in homes and school bookshelves. Read about our Mission & History HERE.
MCBD 2022 is honored to be Supported by these Medallion Sponsors!
Join us on Friday, Jan 28, 2022, at 9 pm EST for the 9th annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day Twitter Party! Be sure and follow MCBD and Make A Way Media on Twitter!
This epically fun and fast-paced hour includes multicultural book discussions, addressing timely issues, diverse book recommendations, & reading ideas.
We will be giving away an 8-Book Bundle every 5 minutes plus Bonus Prizes as well! *** US and Global participants welcome. **
Follow the hashtag #ReadYourWorld to join the conversation, connect with like-minded parts, authors, publishers, educators, organizations, and librarians. See you all very soon on Twitter!
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One of the books I’ve read in the past year that has stuck with me most is Boy from Buchenwald: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor by Robbie Waisman with Susan McClelland. This first-person account from an eighty-nine-year-old (at the time of its writing) presented so compellingly for a young audience is truly a gift for the world. As Mr. Waisman recounts, this was a story he rarely spoke of until 1984 when he learned of an incident of Holocasut denial.
Today is the United-Nations-designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day—with a stated purpose of “rejecting any denial of the Holocaust as a historical event, either in full or in part, . . . by consensus condemning ‘without reserve’ all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, whenever they occur”—so a fitting day to share about this book.
Boy from Buchenwald cover
While Boy from Buchenwald includes many flashbacks to Mr. Waisman’s experiences during the Holocaust, the main narrative focuses on what happened to him after the Holocaust. How does a boy of fourteen who has been through layers of extreme trauma and does not know where his family members are move forward in his life? This is a less-explored topic than survival of the Holocaust itself. In the introduction to the book, Mr. Waisman writes of his experience of the Holocaust: “So many times I was slated for death, and each time I narrowly missed the fate of so many others.”
Then called Romek, Mr. Waisman was one of a thousand boys who were discovered when Buchenwald Concentration Camp was liberated—the largest group of orphaned Jewish children found after the Holocaust. Among the others was Nobel-Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel. Caring adults, who were not sure it was possible to prepare these children for adulthood, made thoughtful efforts. We see a variety of ways that plays out. In Romek’s case, we get a personal view of a challenging journey that is ultimately the story of survival beyond the physical. The book is written in such a straightforward, emotionally true way that today’s teens can relate to the coming-of-age elements, while also learning about a history that is and will always be vitally relevant.
The only criticism I had of this excellent book is that the publisher called it a middle grade novel (for ages 8-12). Both the age of the protagonist and the questions he is asking himself are a better fit for a young adult audience (ages 13 and up). I was pleased that earlier this week the Association of Jewish Libraries recognized Boy from Buchenwald as a Sydney Taylor Award Notable Book in the young adult category. I am hopeful this well-deserved recognition will help bring the book to the attention of teen readers.
Happy Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2021! Celebrating books that allow children to read their world—to see themselves in books and to see the rich human diversity of this planet we share—is a good way to start any year, and especially the one following 2020. I am honored that this year I celebrate Multicultural Children’s Book Day as a member of its Board of Advisors. You can read my thoughts on joining them late last year here.
I am grateful to Wisdom Tales Press for gifting me with a review copy of The Generous Fish, written by Jacqueline Jules and illustrated by Frances Tyrrell. Jacqueline Jules is the author of over forty books for children, including multiple award winners and some that were already on our family’s shelves.
The Generous Fish has the feel of a classic Jewish folktale, inviting readers to ponder its ideas and enjoy it again and again. However, the story was created by Ms. Jules, who was inspired by two Jewish folktales, as she describes in an Author’s Note. In her story, young Reuven befriends a fish with whom he shares his bread. When he discovers that the fish’s scales are made of real gold, he begins to sell them. Both the fish and the boy are generous, and Reuven sells more and more scales to help villagers who always have good reasons for wanting more. But the fish cannot grow back his scales quickly enough and is eventually harmed. When Reuven and the villagers see the impact on the fish, they decide to stop taking scales and help it recover.
Like any good folktale, there are timeless lessons in this story. Though Reuven and the villagers have good intentions, they miss that their actions are having a negative impact. I like that this complexity encourages children to look deeper and consider consequences. In her Author’s Note, Ms. Jules relates this lesson to the environment, which we humans have taken from to the point of harm.
The story is populated with characters and names typical of an old Ashkenasi Jewish town. It is refreshing to see them by the sea. Frances Tyrrell’s illustrations are gorgeous with detailed traditional dress, and colorful nautical borders and insets. The book has the feel of both honoring traditions and providing something fresh and relevant. What a lovely combination for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2021!
See below to learn more about Multicultural Children’s Book Day, its generous sponsors, and free resources available for educators and librarians. Their website includes links to hundreds of reviews of multicultural children’s books. #ReadYourWorld.
Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2021 (1/29/21) is in its 8th year! This non-profit children’s literacy initiative was founded by Valarie Budayr and Mia Wenjen; two diverse book-loving moms who saw a need to shine the spotlight on all of the multicultural books and authors on the market while also working to get those book into the hands of young readers and educators.
Eight years in, MCBD’s mission is to raise awareness of the ongoing need to include kids’ books that celebrate diversity in homes and school bookshelves continues. Read about our Mission & History HERE.
MCBD 2021 is honored to be Supported by these Medallion Sponsors!
Join us on Friday, Jan 29, 2021, at 9 pm EST for the 8th annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day Twitter Party!
This epically fun and fast-paced hour includes multicultural book discussions, addressing timely issues, diverse book recommendations, & reading ideas.
We will be giving away an 8-Book Bundle every 5 minutes plus Bonus Prizes as well! *** US and Global participants welcome. **
Follow the hashtag #ReadYourWorld to join the conversation, connect with like-minded parts, authors, publishers, educators, organizations, and librarians. See you all very soon on Twitter!
Hashtag: Don’t forget to connect with us on social media and be sure and look for/use our official hashtag #ReadYourWorld.
A woman about my age who grew up in my hometown got chosen to be the Democratic nominee for vice president of the United States of America this week.
Kamala Harris wasn’t my top choice for vice presidential candidate (though now I think she was a brilliant choice). So I didn’t expect to be so powerfully impacted when she was chosen, but I was. Especially when I saw this photo:
Kamala Harris
I’ve learned that when I feel like I did, it’s a good idea to write a poem. Here’s what I wrote:
You may recognize that the poem’s title was inspired by Harris’s words “that little girl was me” from the first round of Democratic primary presidential debates in June 2019. She was calling Biden out for opposing busing to desegregate schools, a policy that brought Harris to a school I didn’t attend, but is not far from where I grew up—a school I still drive by and park next to often, and a place with a playground where my son played and learned to ride a bike. Although those words were against Biden, now they make me all the more positive about him and their partnership. It takes strength to partner with someone who has called you out publicly, and, in 2020, that is most true when a man has been called out by a woman. I respect Biden’s willingness to wholeheartedly make that choice.
I know that many people are deeply moved by Kamala Harris’s candidacy. And I’m guessing I’m not the only person who wrote a poem or might write a poem with some allusion to “that little girl was me” this week. If you know of any such poems or are inspired to write one, please let me know in the comments.
For more poems this Poetry Friday, visit https://nixthecomfortzone.com/2020/08/13/poetry-friday-is-here-2/—not only for poetry links, but also a post with two excellent poems where you can learn about a poetry form called a monotetra. I hope to try one soon. Thank you, Molly Hogan of Nix the Comfort Zone blog!
(This post is identical to one I posted earlier today on my book’s blog, OurAmazingDays.com.)
I hope this post finds you and those close to you well. Whatever you are facing, may you also find what gives you peace and joy during these strange times.
Being the author of My Amazing Day keeps gratitude top of mind for me, and I’ve noticed that it is helping me and my family stay in good spirits during the pandemic. We are benefiting from the gratitude traditions we’ve put in place. And we are experiencing firsthand the gratitude science I studied when prepping to write the book.
I made a brief video to share about how all that works in hopes it might benefit others. I hope you will enjoy it and learn something that inspires you.
I'm Karin Fisher-Golton. I love the water and my family and friends—this photo reminds me of both. I write picture books, poetry, early readers, middle grade novels, and nonfiction for children. I also edit children's books (picture books through young adult books). Click on my photo above for more about me.
A book by Karin…
My Amazing Day: A Celebration of Wonder and Gratitude is a board book for ages 0-3. Reviewers have called it “a perfect first book to gift a new mother” and “a book that takes your breath away.” Click the cover image above, for more information.
Karin Fisher-Golton 