I've been doing ThrowbackThursdays for a while but I noticed that I wrote a lot of reviews in a short time when I first started. So, I post more than one Throwback every week. These are my reviews from February 2013.
Ansay, A. Manette "Vinegar Hill" - 1995
It is always amazing to see how much a person can endure. And how long they can watch to see how their loved ones, their children, can go through hard times.
Barnes, Valerie "A Foreign Affair. A Passionate Life in Four Languages" - 2004
Valerie Barnes tells us about her life as an ex-pat, the life of someone who juggles several languages at the same time, lets us look behind the scenes of an international organization, gives us a glimpse into an unhappy marriage to a philanderer, shows us all her international travels around the world, just a wonderful account of an interesting life.
Coerr, Eleanor "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" - 1977
A sad story about a Japanese girl who was born in Hiroshima and was still a baby when the atom bomb was dropped on her home town.
Estes, Eleanor "The Hundred Dresses" - 1944
A beautiful children's book that teaches children about bullying, about poverty, about friendship and acceptance.
Hagena, Katharina "The Taste of Apple Seeds" (German: Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen) - 2008
A beautiful story about three generations of women. A quiet read that you can enjoy slowly.
Tucker, Helen "The Sound of Summer Voices" - 1969
What do you think when you are eleven years old and find out that your aunt is your mother and your mother never existed?
I read Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes with my 4th grade reading group two years ago, and we had some good discussions about it and even learned to fold paper cranes.
ReplyDeleteGreat, Lark. That is a good idea to do while reading it with them. I am sure that was a great discussion. And it should warn us all not to start anything like that again.
DeleteSadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes absolutely gutted me as a child. It is one of the first books I remember sobbing my eyes out over.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's one that stays with us forever. And that is the reason why everyone should read books like that, so that it won't happen again. They always say history repeats itself when you forget about it. I must put that in my next quotes post.
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