Allison's Blog – June 2012 Archive (9)
Road to Memphis by Mildred Tayor
Having now read five Logan books by Mildred Taylor, I have two favorites: Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and Road to Memphis. The first is about childhood; the second is about adolescence. While both contain a mixture of happy and tragic moments, Road to Memphis is about change and so is sadder in tone. Yet in many ways, the two books have parallels.…
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The Friendship by Mildred Taylor
The Friendship by Mildred Taylor is a deceptively simple book. Being about fifty pages, with bigger print and many illustrations, you’d think it most suited to primary-aged students. Yet The Friendship doesn’t pussyfoot around its portrayal of racism. Moreover, it includes an event that still seems shocking almost twenty-five years after the book’s publication.…
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Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Tayor
A former librarian friend of mine used to ensure that their school library’s shelves carried multicultural books. Unfortunately, she found that very few students in her predominantly white school checked them out. Now that the school has become more culturally diverse, the multicultural books apparently have become more popular. I wondered a lot about her observation while researching the amount of diversity which could be found in children’s literature for a recent graduate course. And I…
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Song of the Trees by Mildred Taylor
Song of the Trees by Mildred Taylor is an excellent example of a story that could have been composed wrongly in so many ways. It is the sign of a truly talented author that Mildred Taylor gets it right.
http://allisonsbookbag.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/song-of-the-trees-by-mildred-taylor/
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Ginnie West Books 1-2 by Monique Bucheger
What impresses me most is how Monique never swayed from her original goal of writing wholesome family novels. As in the Austin books by Madeleine L’Engle or the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, the main character’s dad plays just as important of a role as her twin sibling Toran or her best friend Tillie. In contrast, parents get a bad rap in most books for middle school students.…
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Watch for the Raven by Billie Williams
One thing I have realized in my two years as a reviewer is how many good books for young people there are, many of which get overlooked. Case in point, Watch for the Raven is an historical adventure for boys published in 2005, not even ten years ago. Author Billie Williams contacted me earlier this spring because she hoped to revive interest in it. I now have the pleasure of introducing you Watch for the Raven.…
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Dizzy Miss Lizzie by R.M.Clark
Ah, a good old-fashioned children’s ghost story. When is the last time I’ve read or seen one? You know the type where a child has been killed and is searching for just the right person to find the murderer so that she can be at peace. Or something of the sort. It feels as it’s been, well, since the 70s since this plotline was popular. That’s back when I read Nancy Drew books and watched Walt Disney movies. Then along comes Dizzy Miss Lizzie by R.M. Clark. Ah, I’ve missed the genre.…
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Watership Down by Richard Adams
For our family’s summer reading selection, I picked the mammoth four-hundred-page Watership Down by Richard Adams. Some novels will feel like an endurance test just four pages in. Without fail, whenever I read Watership Down, those four hundred pages feel to me like a summer holiday. My husband, who groaned at the idea of reading such a long book about rabbits, instead has eagerly returned to the book whenever he has a spare minute.…
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Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams
Twenty years after the publication of Watership Down, Adams blessed the world with nineteen more tales about his beloved rabbits. In a pocket-sized volume called Tales from Watership Down, Adams once again proves himself a master storyteller.…
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