Fiction – Page 4 – Janet Ruth Heller

Review of the Novel Matilda by Roald Dahl

Author: Janet Ruth Heller August 5, 2019

Matilda, a novel for children by Roald Dahl first published in 1988, focuses on a precocious young girl whose parents mostly ignore her. Matilda attends an elementary school run by the abusive Headmistress Trunchbull, who hates children. Writing with a…
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Review of the Middle-Grade Novel Worth by Alexandria LaFaye (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2004)

Author: Janet Ruth Heller April 18, 2019

This historical novel set in the 1800s poses a challenging question: how much is a child worth when differently abled or orphaned? Eleven-year-old Nathaniel “Nate” Peale helps his parents Gabriel and Mary Eva to farm their land in Nebraska. He…
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Book Review, Books, Children's Literature, Coping with Deaths in a Family, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humanities, Literature, Novels, Parenting, Psychological Issues, Reviews, Sibling Rivalry

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Good Books for 1-Year-Old Boys

Author: Janet Ruth Heller March 14, 2019

Janet Ruth Heller’s picture book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 4th edition 2016), is mentioned in the article “Books a 1-Year-Old Boy Would Enjoy to Read.” The author is Jacob Jacobowitz, and the article is…
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Books for Babies and Toddlers