This is another novel I picked up thanks to an Audie Cornish interview with Michael Donkor that I heard on NPR’s All Things Considered while driving home earlier this fall. I came in right as they were talking about Donkor’s ear for language, and the rhythms of different accents are one of the many things that stood out to me in the novel as well as the interweaving of expressions in Twi, a Ghanaian dialect. It’s a story about relationships—one is between Belinda, a 17-year-old […]
Two more books that will tie up your day with reading
Making a Friend is a clever pun. As Beaver is good at making a lot of things (slides, stripy socks, a lodge) but he is not good at making friends. Oh, he tries, but it never works out as he hopes. Though I would say the others are not really appreciating the attempts. A skunk should appreciate flowers (who does not like flowers?) and the why is the porcupine sad over the popped balloons? But yes, waking owl during the day is a bit more […]
Be You, I’m already taken
Being You by Alexs Pate and illustrated by Soud is a fairly idealistic look at being You. The story is very modern. Therefore, if you are looking for a slightly different book about “it’s good to be you” story this is it. I do not mean the story itself is different (the story is like any other with this theme) but the illustrations are different. While there is a mix of children there is defiantly more minority children. And the feeling of the illustrations gives […]
Two different stories that tie into each other
Fur, Feather, Fin All of Us Are Kin and Mapping Sam are two science books that are not dull science. While Fur is more traditional science, it is written so it reads as a story. And Sam is a story that has information in it. Mapping Sam was my favorite out of the two. Joyce Hesselberth creates a story of a cat that puts their family to bed then goes out into the night on their nightly adventures. They explore all sorts of areas, climb […]