“Mama Zooms” by Jane Cowen-Fletcher,1993. Scholastic. Picture Book. Ages 3-6. Written from the point of view of a child, the narrator tells about the many things that he does together with his mother, who is wheelchair-bound. The day begins with Daddy putting the little boy in his mother’s lap. In her wheelchair, “mama zooms” him [...]
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Shy Charles
“Shy Charles” by Rosemary Wells, 2001. Puffin. Picture Book. Ages 4-8. In her toddler and preschooler years, Joy was a very shy child. She did not want to participate in the singing during playgroup sessions, not to mention play Sunday School sing-alongs. I let her be, because I had been a shy child myself, and [...]
