At the Mountain's Base

I needed more from the story-- better illustrations that weave in the family waiting at home, better connection to the family at home and the woman in the sky, more about the woman in the sky. This only scratched the surface of what it's intention likely was so it was a good start but it feels like......more

Read for my toddler as a story time.......more

One of those picture books that expresses a nice sentiment about a family -- Native American in this case, on the World War II home front awaiting the return of a female aviator -- but the poetic lamentation of their fears and concerns is overshadowed by the author's afterword wherein they briefly d......more

"At the mountain's base grows a hickory tree. Beneath this sits a cabin." And in this cabin lives a Cherokee military family. Watched by her grandchild, a worried grandmother weaves together red, gold, green, and black threads while sitting by an old wood burning stove where there is something warm and......more