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The second symbol shows that I'm participating in a reading challenge at Gathering Books. The Award-Winning book is More Than Anything Else. 
MORNING
COFFEE AND CONVERSATIONI find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx
I
have also taken the Gathering Books Award
challenge this year, and have read my first book that has won several awards,
Michael Rosen’s Sad Book, by Michael
Rosen and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Michael doesn’t hold back, but shared how the sadness affects him
because his son dies. He uses the story
to tell about his personal sadness and how that looks. For example, sometimes he wants to talk with
someone about his sadness and sometimes he wants to be alone. This is a book that shows the rightness of
being sad, and also, that sometimes things are better. It’s a perfect book to share with students or
adults who are grieving. It touched me
with every page, along with the stark black & white drawings that show
darkness when needed, but colors too in a light style of pen and ink outlining
plus watercolor.