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'Living With Viola' , by Rosena Fung Title: Living with Viola Author: Rosena Fung Genre (s): Nonfiction, Mental Health Language: English Publisher: Annick Press Publication Date: 26th October 2021 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Link to buy the book! Thank you to the publisher Annick Press and Edelweiss for this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.  Living with Viola is a middle grade story about Livy , and how she feels about the world and everything that surrounds her, how anxiety and fear doesn't seem to let her go. It's a story about mental health in teenagers, how many factors can affect them.  It's a graphic novel that explores feelings and negative thoughts. There are two topics that I find them of more importance: racism and anxiety and panic attacks . I won't talk about these topics here because it will be spoilers from the book and I don't want to ruin the experience of reading such great work.  Regarding the illustrations , they are beautiful and full of co...

' Michelle Obama' , by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vergara (writer) & Mia Saine (illustrator) Thank you to the authors, Frances Lincoln Children's Books (Quarto Group) and Edelweiss for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.  In this new installment of Litte People, Big Dreams , written by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vergara, we can read about Michelle Obama's life .  It's a short , and illustrated biography about her infancy, her college years, and adulthood.  I really enjoyed it because Michelle Obama is one of the public figures I want to know more about.  The illustrator, Mia Saine, did a great job with the illustrations , which are so beautiful and lovely. I loved them!  In this book, we get to know more about Michelle Obama's life: how she became one of the most influential public figures around the world.  We get to know about how she became a lawyer, how she met her husband, Barack Obama, and how she supported Obama's campaign to become President of the...

' Ruth Bader Ginsburg ', by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vergara Thank you to the author, Frances Lincoln Children's Books and Edelweiss for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.  In this new installment of Maria Isabel Sanchez Vergara's Little People, Big Dreams book Series, the author explores the life of the judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020). It is a beautiful, inspiring human story about a girl, a woman, who believed in herself , who never gave up. It is lovely, and it is so beautifully written, with illustrations. Ruth became one of the symbols for female lawyers. She fought for women's rights , for equality of gender. She spent all of her life fighting for it. She wanted to become the person her mother believed she could be. Her mother died before she graduated from high school.  Ruth and Martin's story is so sweet- how Martin cared for her, how he admired her and saw her as his equal. She became the leader of a feminist law group, and worked to e...