Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
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 [...]
Book Review | Black Radishes
by Susan Lynn Meyer
Score: 2
© 2010, Delacorte Press.
In this novel, based on actual experiences of the author’s father and aunt during the War, young Gustave and his family, who are Jewish, flee the Nazi occupation of Paris and find themselves in a small village right on the border of Occupied and Unoccupied France. In order to obtain food for [...]
Book Review | Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
by Meg Wiviott
Score: 3
Illustrated by Josée Bisaillon
© 2010, Kar-Ben Publishing.
Using picture books to explain the Holocaust to children is rarely a good idea. However, this may be a rare exception. We watch a German neighborhood going about its business in the days leading up to Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) through the eyes of a at building’s [...]
Book Review | Annexed
by Sharon Dogar
Score: 4.5
© 2010, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Let me state from the beginning that I believe it took an enormous amount of courage, and an iron backbone, for Sharon Dogar to write this book. If there was ever such a thing as canonization in Judaism, I am sure Anne Frank would be in the top ten list of [...]
Book Review | The Life and Opinions of Amy Finawitz
by Laura Toffler-Corrie
Score: 3.0
© 2010, Roaring Brook Press.
In an effort to distract Amy from her sadness over losing her best friend to a move to the heartland (Kansas), a caring teacher creates a class assignment involving the diaries of 19th century immigrants. Not only does Amy immerse herself in the project, but she enlists a kind, elderly neighbor, [...]
