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, [...]
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 he [...]
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 [...]
