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Authors: Teraab Ankhnu Feaster & Rochelle Campbell

Publisher: AuthorHouse

ISBN: 978-1-44900-784-3

Young seven year old Teraab, with the help of his mother, Rochelle, has written a charming, modern day fairy tale in a children’s book titled The Magic Seeds.

This thirty-three page book has a soft cover of painted bright purple front and back with a packet of seeds depicted on the front. On the back in white lettering is a short description and history about the young author and reason for the book.

Inside there are plenty of easy-to-read sized words on each left side of the page and a pastel/colored pencil drawing on the full page on the right side. The drawings are simplistic yet descriptive. There are three extra pages at the end of the book that are totally blank.

There was one noticeable grammatical error on page two and several misspelled words written for exclamation or purpose such as righhhtttt, waaaa-ho, or pleeeezze. This may confuse a young reader in the correct spelling of the normal word. Also, some words are italicized for emphasis, which may cause some concern for a young reader. There are a few rather big words such as “askew” and “immediately” that a young reader may have trouble either understanding or reading aloud.

The story is about a single mom who has an inquisitive son with a supposed imagined friend. The son is given a choice to either take coins or some magic seeds from this old lady that the mother never sees. The son tries to tell his mother about the seeds but daily circumstances, being sent to a neighbors and roller skating do not allow it. Later, with the mother’s help, the boy plants the seeds in a pot and says magical words. That night the seeds sprout into a large plant with colorful diamonds hanging from its branches. Every time a diamond is plucked, another one grows in its place. With this newfound financial gain, the mother buys a house of her own and gets a puppy for her son. Of course, they both live happily ever after.

Keeping in mind that a seven year old wrote this story with his mother’s help, it is cute, idyllic and exactly what any young, intuitive child would want to happen. However, in reading the “behind the scenes” story about why Teraab wrote it, there is more humanism and grace as he had found a toy “gem” and his mother and he bonded, wondering “what if” it actually was real.