Monica Brown

Aug 28, 2024 | catholicoutlook.org | Monica Brown

The 2025 Jubilee theme, “Pilgrims of Hope”, is such a relevant theme for our times. In the face of overwhelming human suffering, devastating warfare, unprecedented human displacement and migration, climate crisis and global political and economic volatility, hope is scarce. In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis calls us to heed and respond to the “cry of the earth”.  Without a sure and solid hope, this is a daunting, almost hopeless challenge.

Aug 14, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Deborah Hopkinson |Kari Lavelle |Monica Brown |John Parra

A page-turning medical mystery that makes a compelling case for following the facts. Dr. John Snow, “the father of modern epidemiology,” discovers the cause of cholera. Behind every great scientist is evidence. When cholera broke out in London in 1854, most people blamed the “bad, smelly air” for the rapid spread of the disease.

Jan 9, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Lesa Cline-Ransome |James E. Ransome |Monica Brown |John Parra

An excellent depiction of a life lived with purpose. A kid-lit powerhouse team delivers a warm tribute to a civil rights icon known for making good trouble. John Lewis grew up in segregated Troy, Alabama, raised by sharecropper parents who worked hard but had little to show for it. What his family did provide was love in abundance. Lewis’ desire for education often took a back seat to the needs of the farm, but he read whatever was available.