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Melissa Taylor

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https://imaginationsoup.net

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Children's, Comics, Fantasy

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April 2007

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Melissa Taylor, MA., is a writer, author, children's book reviewer, marketing consultant, and former teacher. She founded and writes the popular children's book review blog, Imagination Soup, for parents, teachers, and librarians.

Her first children’s picture book, Tova’s Sweet Solution, was published on April 21, 2026. Her second picture book, Grayson the Library Guardian, will be released in the spring of 2027.

She freelance writes about topics in education for publications such as Adobe Education, Brightly, and Parenting. She’s an active volunteer at The Right Step, Inc., an adaptive riding barn that serves disabled children and adults.

For more information about Melissa, please visit her websites, melissataylor.net or imaginationsoup.net. ...more

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Tova’s Sweet Solution: A Picture Book About Food Allergies, Problem Solving, & Growth Mindset

Happy birthday to Tova’s Sweet Solution, a picture book for children about food allergies, problem solving, and growth mindset. Tova��s Sweet Solution is about a...

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Average rating: 3.82 · 293 ratings · 72 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pinterest Savvy: Strategies, Plans, and Tips to Grow Your Business with Pinterest 3.64 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Book Love: Help Your Child Grow from Reluctant to Enthusiastic Reader 3.71 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tova’s Sweet Solution by Melissa Taylor (Goodreads Author), Aurelie Lise-Anne (Translator) 4.84 avg rating — 37 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Melissa liked Andrea Wang's review of Tova’s Sweet Solution: "This is a story about the Bakers, a family of bears who run a bakery filled with delicious treats. One day, little Tova is brokenhearted to learn that she can no longer eat honeygrain, an ingredient in many of her favorite treats. With persistence an" Read more of this review »
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Melissa liked Carmela Coyle's review of Tova’s Sweet Solution: "What a darling story! Tova’s family of bears are the owners and operators of a bustling bakeshop. They make the most delicious baked goods, like toffeechip toasts and blissful biscuits. But the family is faced with a conundrum when young Tova discove" Read more of this review »
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Melissa liked Brittany's review of Tova’s Sweet Solution: "I just want to eat this book right up! Perfect for families or young ones dealing with food allergies and/or sensitivities, this story pairs adorable illustrations with equally sweet and charming text. I especially appreciate how Melissa doesn't shy " Read more of this review »
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“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: adult, childhood, children, maturity

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“Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.”
― Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

tags: achievement, children, growth, learning, potential

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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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