This is a religious story set in a village long ago. The villagers are obsessed with accumulating as much gold as possible, despite the detrimental effect it has on their health. Every day, the shaman comes down from a nearby mountaintop to care for the sick villagers and teach his grandson the healing skills he possesses. When the shaman turns 100, it is time for his grandson to begin his own journey in life by taking over his grandfather’s duties.
Kona and the Lumpy Bumps is a fun, funny, and engaging rhyming story about an endearing dog with several interesting characteristics, some common in dogs but some not so much.
Books about grief are difficult to write, but the challenge is even greater when the book is meant for children. But Mandy Woolf does an outstanding job in her book Harmony Dances On: A Book About Grief.
