Walking With Maga

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Summary: An elegant, gentle prose picturebook
Review: Author Maureen Boyd Biro's Walking With Maga is an elegant, gentle prose picturebook about Maga and her young granddaughter, who go for walks through the seasons discovering simple joys in the world around them. At last, the granddaughter makes a special wish. Filled with heartwarming color illustrations by Joyce Wheeler, Walking With Maga is a beautiful and restful book excellent for reading aloud. A strong choice for family, school, and community library picturebook collections.

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Summary: Brilliant and Charming
Review: I found this book to be wonderful for my three children they loved it, and I felt it had a lot of heart, something you don't find much anymore. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a nice children's book for their child to read or be read too.

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Summary: Walking with Maga
Review: I found this book to be wonderful for my three children they loved it, and I felt it had a lot of heart, something you don't find much anymore. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a nice children's book for their child to read or be read too.

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Summary: Beautiful, serene illustrations from yesteryear
Review: This book brings back memories from my own childhood of tagging along with my grandmother as she ran errands, worked in the garden, or baked her special oatmeal cookies. Walking with Maga is a delightful picture book for all generations to share. Joyce Wheeler's illustrations complement Biro's prose well. Together they create a world where life was slower and filled with simple pleasures.

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Summary: Brilliant and Charming
Review: Told from a child's point of view, WALKING WITH MAGA captures a young girl's moments spent walking with her grandmother. Biro brilliantly describes the simple pleasures of walking during all seasons, and taking in every scent and scenery around.
Whether you are watching shapes in the clouds, listening to seashells, or playing with a caterpillar-it's always best when shared with a loved one.

Biro's writing style and Wheeler's pastel illustrations seem to go hand in hand. The charming pictures cause you to feel as though you are there with the young girl and her Maga. Their relationship shines.

If this story doesn't make you think of your own childhood memories, then you better read it again, preferably to a child, and read it slower. They'll come to you.

After reading it to my 4-year-old-daughter Jordan, she wanted me to go through each page with her again just to look at the illustrations in detail.

Author, Maureen Boyd Biro is a freelance writer who has had several of her articles, essays and fiction published in numerous magazines.
This book is her first picture book. Biro resides in Pleasant Hill, California with her husband, Martin and her daughter, Jordan, and her son, Martin Jr.

Illustrator, Joyce Wheeler has illustrated several books and she lives and teaches illustration in Santa Monica, California.

ASTORYWEAVERs Book Reviews highly recommends WALKING WITH MAGA by Maureen Boyd Biro.

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Summary: A charming story that is sure to please
Review: Walking with Maga is a lovely picture book that conveys the tender relationship between a little girl and a special adult in her life. Together they build memories in the simple act of taking a walk. Wheeler's illustrations and Biro's sensitive text combine to remind us all of the importance to take time to appreciate the little things in life.