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Articles

Social Earth Website Article (April 2009)

National Black MBA Twin Cities (Aug/Sept 2007)

Independent Publisher’s Magazine Article (Feb 2017)

Minneapolis Spokesman-Recorder Article (Dec 2016)

Black Children’s Books and Authors Article (July 2017)

Newport Elementary School Visit Article (Nov 2016)

Blavity Website Father’s Day Article (June 2017)

Minneapolis Star Tribune Article (Dec 2017)

Interviews

Minneapolis Youtube Interview (March 2017)

WCCO Minneapolis Ch 4 TV Interview (Jan 2018)

Karen Hunter Show Radio Interview Sirius XM Ch. 126 Urban View (Nov 2017)

Press Releases

Papa Lemon Book 4 Press Release

Papa Lemon Book 5 Press Release

Papa Lemon Father’s Day 2011 Press Release

Papa Lemon Book 7 Press Release

Media One-Sheet

Papa Lemon Book Media ONE SHEET

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Reviews

This short children’s story transports the reader into the past aboard a time traveling train. Children learn about Martin Luther King’s passion for respect and equal rights for all people.

Guest on BN.com

I fully support your book series and find it to be a very innovative way to teach children about multi-cultural history while at the same time making it fun. The use of grandparents as positive role models for the children emphasizes the importance of family and community that creates an additional level of depth that truly makes this a unique book and one worth reading.

Mayor R.T. Rybak, Minneapolis MN

I thought he was great!

Carolyn, Teacher, Oak View Elementary School (Maple Grove, MN)

I recommend the Papa Lemon books to all kids, parents and grandparents. Join Papa Lemon on his Magic Train and travel back in time on a joyous journey making family, culture and history come alive. The author, Lehman Riley, has created books which grandparents, parents and kids should all read and enjoy together.

Mike Wood, Founder of LeapFrog Enterprises

Papa Lemon’s Little Wanderers are in for another exciting and valuable history lesson when Kaya’s uncle Walter comes into town with a truck full of memorabilia. Curious children start asking numerous questions and in this way, they find out about World War II, the soldiers and the women and children who stayed behind. Uncle Walter tells the children more about the Navajo Talkers whose obscure language proved very useful and lifesaving during the war. The highlight of the adventure was a trip…

Armchair Interviews, Amazon.com

My 8 year old son thought this book was great. “It just pulls you in the first few pages, and keeps going from there”. I don’t think he knew much about Babe Didrikson before this book, but he has a great appreciation of her after reading it. At 47 pages, it’s a quick, easy read with bright, colorful illustrations. We’ll have to read the previous books now…

Motherly Way Enterprises, INC, Amazon.com

Papa Lemon reminds us of the power of our imaginations to engage us personally. The Magic Train becomes our vehicle into the lives and experiences of those who have come before us. Now that I have traveled with the Little Wanderers in to 1963 America, I am anxious to go on another journey. I recommend your series for schools, and other organizations and community programs, and Papa Lemon as a storyteller, not just for the Little Wanderers, but for all our children.

W. Toni Carter, Ramsey County Commissioner District 4

Life is sweet when your children read Papa Lemon books….they teach our children the much needed important lessons of a morally grounded and spiritually rooted life. Thank you Papa!

George Fraser, Author of “Success Runs in Our Race.”

This book tells a story about real people and how they met Dr. King. A really neat way to learn about history and civil rights. Two of the characters are my mother and father!

Guest on BN.com

The Adventures of Papa Lemon’s Little Wanderers Book 5: The California Gold Rush” is a history lesson via time travel for the Little Wanderers, an adventurous multicultural band of time explorers who have the wonderful guidance of the neighborhood grandparents, Papa Lemon and Mama Sarah. For this adventure, the time dial is set for 1848 and the California Gold Rush, but somehow the group overshoots their date with destiny and lands in 1851. What will happen? Clearly illustrated portraits show th…

Midwest Book Review, Amazon.com