Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Book Review | As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom
by Richard Michelson
Score: 5
Illustrated by Raul Colón.
© 2008 – Knopf Books for Young Readers.
Winner of the 2008 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Younger Readers. This is an outstanding book about how Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel grew up on different continents at different times yet with similar experiences, and how those experiences caused their lives [...]
Book Review | Harvest of Light
by Allison Ofanansky
Score: 4
Photographs by Eliyahu Alpem.
© 2008. Kar-Ben/Lerner
More than just a Hanukkah book, this could also be shelved with the science collection as it is a fabulous story of how olives become oil. What better way to share the story of the Miracle of Hanukkah than by showing children why the eight days were so important and [...]
Book Review | Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman
by Marc Tyler Nobleman
Score: 3.5
The liner notes of this book start out: “It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Siegel and Shuster!” Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two young, Jewish residents of Cleveland, were the creators of Superman. However, with the exception of a paragraph in the book’s Afterword that refers to Jerry Siegel’s Jewishness being ridiculed by the [...]
Book Review | Nothing
by Robin Friedman
Score: 5
This is a timely, completely engaging, amazingly unique book. In it we meet a 17-year-old high school senior, Parker, who has Bulimia, his father who has just been diagnosed with Breast Cancer, his 14-year-old sister, Danielle,and his mother. In opposing chapters we read the young man’s story in prose and his sister’s version of events [...]
Book Review | Penina Levine is a Hard-Boiled Egg
by Rebecca O’Connell
Score: 3.5
There are certain aspects of this story that did not ring true to me. I found it hard to believe that a sixth grade public school teacher would have her class writing Easter bunny letters for a group of kindergarteners at a Catholic school where a friend teaches. I also found it difficult to believe [...]
