The title of this review explains a lot about the book. A boy’s parents were killed by a man named Jack. The boy wanders to a graveyard, then he gets taken in by the spirits. They don’t know what to do with him and then a Lady in Grey comes and tells them to take him in. He doesn’t know his own name cause he’s only a little boy so they call him Nobody. His guardian is not necessarily human, but as soon as you […]
The Book About Basically the Same Thing as The Invention of Hugo Cabret, But This Is a Very Bad Book
You know Brian Selznick as the person who wrote The Invention of Hugo Cabret, but this is his less famous book. It’s the same basic idea as The Invention of Hugo Cabret, except it’s a brother and a sister who are orphans, and instead a train station, they are living in their parents’ old house. They make a machine which can pull part of itself off to make an object float in the air. Pretty great idea, right?, but poor execution. When I read the book […]
The Fox, the Crow, and the Shadow
Set in 17th century London, I, Coriander is the story of a girl who finds things very strange. Things go on around her that she doesn’t understand like her father is constantly saying, “Don’t touch these, don’t touch those,” especially with these silver shoes that she found with the letter “C” for Coriander, but apparently she can’t have them. And then things get much more complicated. Her mom dies at the sight of a crow, her dad marries a woman who is way too religious, […]
Louis Armstrong Is Amazing
I have read several books from the Who Was series. I recently re-read Who Was… Louis Armstrong because I had to do a Black History Month project and I remembered reading it and loving it. Who Was… Louis Armstrong by Yona Zeldis McDonough tells the story of Louis Armstrong’s life and how he didn’t get much proper schooling, he spent most of his schooling in a corrective school because him and his friends were going to shoot off a few cap guns in the street and […]