American Authors Association Book Review

Ev’ry Little Soul

Author:  Terry A. O’Neal

Publisher:  Motion Publishing

Reviewer: W. H. McDonald – AAA President

Terry A. O’Neil writes adult poetry and books aimed at adolescents; now she has that book for your youngest ones that they will enjoy. She has partnered up with a woman artist from Africa - Wendy Robinson for a delightful and colorful book for small children. Terry has taken her children’s poem and made it with the illustrations into something small children will love.

The real test however is to read it with my own grandchildren. I figured the book aimed best at my two youngest ones, Daylana, who is almost 3 years old, and her little brother Gianni, who is 16 months old. So began my product testing. The first thing I realized is that the colorful pictures do capture their attention and that my grandchildren will sit still with me to listen and follow the story. Daylana seemed to enjoy the marching parts of the story and my littlest one Gianni thought that the book tasted good. He has a tendency to eat books if not watched too closely. The pictures that they enjoyed best were the one with the young boy with a cooking pot on his head and the other with several girls skipping rope.

So my grandchildren give this book a rating of FIVE TEDDY BEARS.