Today you are getting four book reviews in one post! The focus is on the wonderful Ella picture book series which are: Ella the Elegant Elephant, Ella Takes the Cake, Ella Sets the Stage, and Ella Sets Sail by Carmela and Steven D’Amico. In this delightful series, Ella, a sweet little elephant, lives on Elephant [...]
Ken Mochizuki is the author of the picture books Be Water, My Friend: The Early Years of Bruce Lee (reviewed here), Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story (reviewed here), Baseball Saved Us (reviewed here), Heroes, and the young adult novel Beacon Hill Boys. Having spent the past few days with Ken Mochizuki and his books, [...]
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee is a wonderful picture book for younger readers to introduce them to a part of American history, particularly the relocation of Japanese Americans from their homes to internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II. “Shorty” was thus nicknamed because [...]
Be Water, My Friend: The Early Years of Bruce Lee by Ken Mochizuki and llustrated by Dom Lee is the picture book biography of Bruce Lee. I have to admit that I’ve never had much interest in Bruce Lee but because my husband is a fan I’m well aware of him, his movies, and we [...]
Passage to Freedom, The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee is not only a wonderful book but it’s based on a wonderful true story that I’m going to say is safe to believe that many people don’t know. As we learn from the author interview that I conducted with Ken Mochizuki [...]
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