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“A Is for Always has as its core the love and sense of belonging that adoptive family members have for each other…You can imagine the delight and reassurance that a three-to-six year old would find in this book. But its perceptive, funny, and tender pages have a broad appeal that caregivers will enjoy just as much.” – Spirituality and Practice
Beautiful coloring, perfect animal families, great graphics!
I just became a grandmother AGAIN two months ago. My son and his family adopted Donnie, and we are all thrilled. This is the sweetest little book, TRULY. There were so many books to choose from, and I wanted a special one. My final decision to choose this one was because of the beautiful coloring (as shown on the cover). It was all about animal families, which was so inviting, and the graphics were just perfect!
A IS FOR ALWAYS: an Adoption Alphabet in verse was published by Familius on August 2, 2022. It has garnered rankings on Amazon of #1 in new releases of children’s adoption books, #1 in new releases of children’s alphabet books, and #1 in new releases of children’s stepfamily books.
Since the illustrations display animal families of different species, it is not only a book for all adoptive families, but for interracial, single parent, gay parent, and step-parent families. Especially well-suited for adoptees from ages 3-6, it’s a perfect book for adoptive parents to share with their children.
The illustrator, Léonie Little-Lex, is a Boston-based artist and arts educator. She received both her BFA (2009) and MAT (2012) from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She exhibits on Cape Cod and in the greater Boston area, and has also exhibited nationally in Portland Oregon, New York, and North Carolina. Her work can be described as both fine art and illustrative, she works in a variety of media with an emphasis on oil painting and pen and ink drawings. She finds inspiration in exploring various environments as she seeks to capture both natural and fantastical elements in her pieces.
The late poet, essayist, and memoirist Carol Dine, weeks before her untimely death in March 2020, asked Linda Cutting, Jennifer Barber, and Tehila Lieberman to edit and publish her final collection of poems.
Blood Moon explores twentieth and twenty-first century history through the stories of women who acted heroically under the most extreme circumstances, at great personal danger, during wartime and times of political oppression. It also focuses on the lives of women artists who documented the violence of their times through their art. The author drew on many memoirs in the writing of this collection, and the poems are both powerful and redemptive.
“Dine’s poems about women in extremis are pressed and compacted like diamonds. Her ability to empathize so completely with brave women who suffered terribly, in wartime, from the never-ending human appetite for cruelty, moved me profoundly. I have read Blood Moon over and over, and in my opinion, there is true greatness here. This volume of poetry surely deserves a place in the canon.”
-Michael Sandle, British sculptor and artist
The author, Carol Dine, was a celebrated poet, essayist, and memoirist. Art critic and author John Berger wrote of Dine’s Van Gogh in Poems (Bitter Oleander Press, 2009), “Her observation of [Van Gogh’s] drawings equals his observation of what he was drawing.”
UPCOMING
BLACK ANGEL
by Ann Hobson Pilot and Linda Cutting
illustrated by Ekua Holmes
published by Candlewick
Ann Hobson Pilot, principal harpist for the Boston Symphony orchestra for 40 years, teamed up with Linda Cutting, author of Memory Slips and A is for Always, to write a biography of Pilot, who was taunted by white peers for starting harp lessons when “only angels play the harp, and who ever heard of a black angel?” Illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Ekua Holmes.
MEMORY SLIPS
“A beautifully written meditation…Her courage will lend great strength to other sufferers…Dignified, eloquent.”
– The New York Times Books Review
“When she writes about music…the words sing.”
– The Boston Globe
Written two decades before the #MeToo movement, Linda Katherine Cutting’s memoir of family and music movingly portrays the trauma and recovery of a woman whose childhood was betrayed by those who were supposed to protect her. In exquisite prose she illuminates the inner life of a child for whom the gift of music was the only refuge, a refuge that protected her as long as it could. For when Linda began to remember what her father had done to her and her brothers – both eventual suicides – she stopped being able to remember Beethoven’s notes. Linda Cutting’s writing bears witness to what had occurred. Her stunning “Hers” column, originally published in the New York Times Magazine in October 1993, was clipped and carried in wallets and pocketbooks and reprinted around the world. Now her memoir, Memory Slips, will not only reach out and give voice to victims of sexual abuse, but also move anyone who cares about the power of writing, the beauty of music, and the innocence of children.
Memory Slips has been translated into seven languages, including Japanese, Dutch, German, Chinese, and Swedish.
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