Choices for children
Lately, newspapers have been filled with recommendations for new children's books. The Sun highlighted Mommy, Do You Love Me? by Jeanne Willis, A Visitor for Bear by Bonnie Becker, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall and The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry.
From the N.Y. Times Children's Book Section: Books about boxer Muhammad Ali and the environment, Harlem hoopsters and adventurous girls. Sequels, including More!” from Antoinette Portis, the author of Not a Box, And a rave ("masterpiece" to be exact) for How I Learned Geography, an autobiographical, Holocaust-era tale by Uri Shulevitz (shown above).
From the Washington Post: Stories about all sorts of critters and picture books on Fred Astaire, a re-imagined Lewis Carroll poem and a young boxer. Tales about the baseball's Negro Leagues, jazz pianist Art Tatum and a deaf/blind girl whose education paved the way for Helen Keller's success. In young adult fiction, raves for The Book of Jude, about a 19th-century teenager who joins a Mormon community.
The Times and Post gave less-than-enthusastic reviews to Read All Aboout It!, by First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna. A Times skewer: "The point is laboriously made, the teachers’ names are dorky, the plot is hectic and the suspense and dialogue are artificial." Yes, but didn't you like the color of the cover?
Comments
I just stumbled upon this blog, and while I think it's a great idea, I can't help but wonder why the Sun decided this was such a necessary thing after they absolutely gutted the book review section. So, to recap: The Sun has taken all sorts of stuff out of the paper, and now I can get, for free, what the paper no longer offers. So can someone tell me again why I should bother subscribing to the paper at all? And would it kill the Sun to put some of this stuff in print?
Posted by: WildBillFan | May 14, 2008 1:36 PM
I'm glad you like the blog. The Sun, like every paper in America, has seen some readers and advertisers migrate to the Internet,But the Internet also gives us a chance to replace and expand on topics that are important to the community. At Read Street, I hope we can build a new community.
Posted by: Dave Rosenthal | May 14, 2008 3:15 PM
I'd like to take this opportunity to plug my own children's book, Has Anybody Lost A Glove?, described here on the Maryland Kid's Page http://www.mdkidspage.org/Authors2.htm (scroll to the bottom).
Posted by: Gail Johnson | May 14, 2008 9:58 PM