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Mrs. D. (Olga D’Agostino), is an award-winning children’s author (recipient of multiple Mom’s Choice Awards, Beverly Hills Book Awards, and International Readers’ Favorite Awards). She grew up in western Ukraine as the daughter of a forest ranger. Inspired by the beauty of nature, she loved to write stories and poems in her native language and dreamed of becoming a writer. She finished Lviv business college and in 1992 immigrated to the United States with her two small daughters. In 2011 she started to pursue her childhood dreams, among them writing books for children. Her illustrated children’s books include The Trees Have Hearts, Good Morning, World!, The City Kittens and the Old House Cat, Runaway Clothes, and The Royal Palm. She speaks several languages fluently and loves reading, writing, gardening, and traveling. She lives in Smithville, NJ, with her husband, Patrick. They have four children and four grandchildren. Her unpredictable calico cat, Nyda, has been the inspiration for many of her stories. Her books are available in print on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and as e-books for most popular e-devices. For updates on Mrs. D.’s books, please visit www.mrsdbooks.net or email olga@mrsdbooks.com
Reviewed by Lee Ashford for Readers' Favorite
Carlo the Mouse, Book 2: Now We're Talking! by Mrs. D. is a fun follow-up to Book 1, in which we were introduced to Carlo, a happy-go-lucky - but perhaps too curious - little mouse who resides with his family inside a hospital. In this adventure we follow Carlo as he follows his nose, against his parents' counsel, toward the hospital kitchen. But the aromas wafting from that quarter are just too tempting to resist, so little Carlo soon learns that perhaps he should pay more attention to the adult mice in his life. Mrs. D. cleverly teaches children that parents really are looking out for their best interests by portraying Carlo as a surrogate child who thinks he knows better than his parents. Your children will enjoy having you read this tale to them, scarcely realizing they are learning a valuable lesson as they engage with Carlo.
Mrs. D. has once again teamed up with an excellent artist to illustrate Carlo the Mouse, Book 2: Now We’re Talking! The colorful graphics, exaggerated facial expressions, and attention to detail perfectly complement the text, and will be certain to hold your little one's attention, whether you are reading the story to them or they are reading it themselves. As with all her previous stories, she has seamlessly merged an engaging tale with beautiful graphics, and the result is ideally suited to young readers and pre-readers. Mrs. D. promises several more episodes in Carlo's story, so your youngsters will be able to follow Carlo’s upcoming adventures as they continue to advance their own reading skills. I heartily recommend inviting Carlo the Mouse into your children’s library.
