Archive for the ‘Immigrant Experience’ Category
Book Review | Mrs. Kaputnik’s Pool Hall and Matzo Ball Emporium
by Rona Arato
Score: 2.5
© 2010, Tundra Books.
The Kapustin family cannot understand what has happened to their father. He left for American and has not written for 5 years. Where could he be? With the help of a dragon, a pirate, a circus barker, matzo balls as hard as rocks and some real American resourcefulness, not only do they [...]
Book Review | Feivel’s Flying Horses
by Heidi Smith Hyde
Score: 4
Illustrated by Johanna van der Sterre
© 2010, Kar-Ben Publishing.
The author who brought us the delights of Klezmer music in Mendel’s Accordion, now shares a lesser known path from the Jewish immigrant experience, the wooden carousel horse carvers of the 19th century. This beautifully told tale describes the life of Feivel who leaves his wife and [...]
Book Review | Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
by Linda Glaser
Score: 4
by Linda Glaser
Illustrated by Claire A. Nivola
© 2010, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
~ from The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
I am sure I learned these [...]
