Latest Recommendation For Your Children's Home Library - Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's Meteorite Mission by Oneeka Williams M.D.!

Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo lives in Battery Grove with her parents and grandparents, Mommy and Daddy Dynamo knew from an early
age that Dr. Dee Dee had special abilities. Her hands glowed when she was born! And when Dr. Dee Dee was only three months old, Mommy Dynamo found her at the top of their mango tree, repairing a baby bird's wing...
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"What is it, Gordon?" Dr. Dee Dee asks.
"Astrid Asteroid is wailing because a part of her has broken off and she doesn't know where it went," says Gordon. "Then I heard a loud BOOM that came from Earth's Northern Hemisphere."
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"I am so confused," says Luka. "Asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, meteorites, comets! How can you possibly tell the difference?"

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Our Mission

To Educate, Empower, Enrich and create a framework for children to believe that “Not Even the Sky is the Limit!”

Goals

1. To share the excitement and love that I have for being a doctor and a surgeon with young readers.
2. To create an action figure that brings strong, positive and powerful images for girls of all colors.
3. To introduce in Children’s Literature, a counter narrative to some of the stereotypical images in the media.
4. To stimulate interest in the sciences for all kids, but especially girls, by presenting learning facts in a fun way.
5. To promote the importance of literacy.

Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's

  Meteorite Mission

By Oneeka Williams M.D.

Illustrated by Valerie Bouthyette

Let's get the team ready,"
Dr. Dee Dee says
urgently. "We must help"
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Check out the cover of a children's book and you can pretty well tell if it's one to acquire for your permanent children's library! This one definitely is! Other than the picture of Dr. Dee Dee, I found the most compelling were the inclusion of various medical instruments and each had a name! How wonderful an idea that can be effectively used to help children understand about going to see a doctor and what instruments he or she might use... especially "Sydnee Syringe"! Nobody likes getting shots, no matter how old we are! And having that stethoscope being placed on our chest for the first time, just might be what leads some children to play doctor and even dream of becoming one!

Freeda the Flying Ambulance is ready and
waiting. "Are all the instruments ready?"
Dr. Dee Dee asks Marky Medicine Bag.
"They are clean, sharp, and ready for
action, Dr. Dee Dee!" says Marky with
gusto.
"Team, fasten your seatbelts. Freeda, set
GPS for the meteorite collision site in
Earth's Northern Hemisphere," directs
Dr. Dee Dee.
~~~

So after I'd been introduced to "Marky Medicine Bag", "Ana Anesthetic" and even "Simon Scissors", I was interested enough to start looking around on the Internet... I just had to include Dr. Williams' Mission statement. When writers decide to write for children, there is a concurrent responsibility in my opinion. Having the above goals helped me see that this author is prepared to meet that! Finding an online presence and giving children a chance to meet her characters also speaks to an authors credibility. I read the second book in what will be a series. The first being a Mission to Pluto. 
                                                  
Gordon the Gullible Globe   
chimes in. "I heard Pluto
telling his moon, Charon,
that he was very happy when   
Dr. Dee Dee operated on him.
He said all he felt was a little
pinch."
                        ~~~

Now the choice to take children into outer space was something I would not have expected. However, it certainly provided the author the opportunity to move into many different scientific areas, teaching, for instance, about meteorites in this second book...

"Approaching Chelyabinsk, Russia," announced Freeda, "Meteorite 2013."

"Great!" applauds Marky. "We can tell Astrid Asteroid that 

we have found her lost piece."

"Holymackarolee! Why is there so much broken glass?" 

questions Lukas.

"The meteorite created a SONIC BOOM when it entered 

the Earth's atmosphere, which shattered the glass on the 

buildings," replies Dr. Dee Dee...

~~~

In addition to personifying her instruments, Dr. Dee Dee 

also helps the animals as well as the people and then proceeds 

to help the meteorite!

"I'm Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo, 

Super Surgeon ON THE GO!

My hands were made to heal.

I cut, I sew, I tie with zeal;

No problem is too big or small 

Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo can tackle them all!

There's magic, there's space travel, medical miracles to perform and most of all, you can see the caring and concern that is sooooo plentiful that it is used for not only people patients but for just 

about anything that needs to be "fixed up"! In fact, I love the way the book ends!

The narrative includes not only the storyline but once in a while presents a poem or two. Each of the 42 pages is beautifully done, and measures about 8 x 10. Even the inside hard covers have been filled! A Glossary and a set of Discovery Questions adds to the extensive attempt to provide both an enjoyable time as well as a tool to help with reading comprehension.

Get the idea I was impressed! Parents, Teachers, Librarians, Don't miss this one...and if you haven't started your permanent child's library at home, Start With This One!

GABixlerReviews

About the Author

Dr Oneeka Williams developed her desire to become a doctor at an early age. When she first entered the operating room while attending Harvard Medical School, it was love at first sight. Dr Dee Dee Dynamo encourages kids to live a life without limits. This is Dr Williams’ first children's book. She is a practicing surgeon and lives just outside Boston, Massachusetts, with her husband, Charles and son, Mark.

Jane Munro Turns From Microscope to Mystery in New Great Series!

"Personally, if I were going to kill someone, I would use a neuromuscular blocking agent. No muss, no fuss--you just stop breathing and that's it. It would be an awful way to die, though. You remain conscious right up till the end, but you can't move, and you can't call for help, and eventually you can't breathe, but you don't lose consciousness until the brain gets hypoxic enough. Why," I warmed to my subject, rubbing my hands together fiendishly, "you'd have time to tell your victim exactly why you had killed him, and he'd have time to think about it before he died!"

"Hal shivered. "Toni, you scare me sometimes. Remind me not to get you made at me. Come on, let's go to bed."

~~~

Murder Under the Microscope  Debut of Toni Day Series

By Jane Bennett Munro

As a winner of an IP Book Award for Excellence, I wasn't the least surprised that this book was selected. Written by a pathologist, based upon years of experience, Munro takes us directly into the life of Antoinette Day, who leads a small department at Perrine Memorial Hospital in Idaho. And then creates a life for her, as she says on the back cover, that becomes "a living hell..."

Which always makes for a good murder mystery, of course... This is a solid, well-written novel, but the poor main character, Toni Day...I'm surprised that she made it through all that was thrown at her in her first book! Will she be able to be the lead in a series, if her writer is going to be doing this? LOL...Seriously, just when you think you've begun to get a handle on whodunit... The bodies keep appearing!

"I told you to shut up, bitch."
"Oh year? Who died and made you king,
dickhead?"
"I don't have to listen to you whining all day, cunt."
"Yes you do, fuckhead. "You're in a cage just like
me."
"So, what're you in for? Stealing lingerie from
Macy's" he sneered.
"Don't you wish, big boy."
"You better shut up, bitch, I'm not gonna tell you
again."
"Good," I said. "I was getting tired of it.
"You better not get smart with me, bitch. I can tear
you into little pieces. You'll wish you'd never been
born. I'll beat your pretty face to pulp. I'll carve it
up with a hunting knife. No man will ever look at
you again."
My blood ran cold, and I shivered. Thank God this
animal was in a cage.
"Is that what you're in for?" I asked.
"I beat up my girlfriend. She was steppin' out on me.
Nobody does that to the Bruiser and gets away with
 it," he bragged.
"I hear you," I said, suddenly inspired. "My boyfriend
did the same thing to me. But he'll never do it
again."
"Yeah?" he said, interested in spite of himself.
"What'cha do to him?"
"I strangled him with a pair of her panties and
carved my initials on his scrotum."
"I heard what I thought might be a little gasp."
"With a razor blade..."
~~~

And it's all about trouble at work. Except when you're in a hospital, that work affects lives... And some of the bodies were incidental "patients" that got in the way. Yikes!

Oh, yeah...An old stalker of Toni's also shows up--but he's threatening Hal, Toni's husband!

Toni was fairly well established and respected for her department's work, except by one man. But when a new temporary doctor came--a beauty that had all the men drooling, it seemed that nothing was going to satisfy her!

And she used Tyler as her front man to get Toni into trouble... First they fired one of Toni's long-time employees!

Of course, Toni took immediate action and got her back on the job... But then she was hit by a car in the hospital parking area, and was off work for months! Surprising Toni even more was that a new qualified young woman was found and on the job by the next day!

When that young woman made a serious mistake which could have gotten Toni in trouble, Toni really began to watch and worry about what was happening!

Somehow Dr. Shore, the new doctor had to be involved--but how?! But when the body of Dr. Shore is found...in Toni's office... everybody was suspicious!

Toni even called for her mother to come to be with her (one cool lady!)

Now most of us, these days, because of the many television shows which delve into forensics, would probably think that Toni is going to find the answers through her own work...Not!

Toni is a pathologist, not into forensics, so you will learn the difference, while Dr. Day continues to be called upon to do her normal work, during surgeries, to assist there...and more... In one way, this is closer to a cozy mystery since the pathologist is acting to investigate the crimes through the normal interview, tracking, and analysis phases. This in itself is a different twist that I enjoyed, especially since many TV programs slot these specialists into jobs that they do not normally do in everyday life.

What this does for readers is allow us to experience the reality of pathology, while at the same time working to solve a murder mystery. I applaud Monro, for staying true to her professional credentials and sharing her experience in an important medical field.

The angle Munro used to slowly eliminate suspects, by death, LOL, was fun as well, since readers have to keep on working on the mystery right up to the end. Yeah, we get some hints at that point, but, you'll be guessing wrong, I'm thinking, even when surprises are revealed along the way. Not many thrills, but a steady strong whodunit that is sure to please those who love to play the investigator along with the main character.

Toni, by the way, fooled me at first...I thought she was somewhat of a wimp...LOL...I was wrong... Enjoy! 


GABixlerReviews

I'm a pathologist in a rural hospital in Twin Falls, Idaho, trained in Southern California. I worked my way through medical school as a medical technologist. I came to Twin Falls right out of residency, and was in a solo practice for 24 years before my hospital was purchased by the other one; now I have three partners. I now work part-time at St. Luke's Magic Valley in Twin Falls. I'm 67, divorced, and live in Twin Falls with my best friend, Rhonda, and our cat, Henrietta.

Unlike most pathologists in murder mysteries, my protagonist, Toni Day, MD, is not a forensic pathologist, and neither am I. Like me, she is a hospital based general pathologist who has forensic autopsies thrust upon her. Instead of the usual morgue scene, Toni's work involves all the other things pathologists do that nobody knows about; surgicals, cytology, the clinical laboratory; all this in addition to solving the odd heinous crime.

Reviewers have suggested that I develop a platform upon which to provide information for those who have lab work done, or must have something biopsied or removed at surgery, and the interrelationship between pathologists, surgeons, and oncologists (cancer doctors) which are so frightening and mysterious to the average patient.

The readers of my books will at least get an idea of what the average pathologist does all day besides autopsies.

We're not all Quincy.

Some of us are Toni Day.