Heroes by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee is the story of a Donnie who wished his father wouldn’t drive him to school each morning. It was embarrassing. The other kids who walked would turn around and stare at them. most of the time, they’d point their fingers and pretend to shoot them. They [...]
You may remember me recently blogging about how I made tomato aspic for my Children’s Literature Book Club when we read World War II themed books. Tomato aspic was eaten by the characters in the book Jimmy’s Stars by Mary Ann Rodman, so even though I knew it would be nasty I couldn’t help making [...]
When the characters in Mary Ann Rodman’s novel, Jimmy’s Stars, ate tomato aspic I asked Mary Ann for the recipe simply out of curiosity. When she gave it, I knew there was no way I was going to be making it. Mary Ann herself was gagging over the mayonnaise garnish. But I hosted my Children’s [...]
On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck is a really wonderful book. Richard Peck is one of the most loved authors of our time and it’s certainly for good reason. I loved everything about this book. I was drawn into the story immediately with the first page:
Before the war . . .
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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, [...]
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