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More Than Anything Else is an inspirational story about Booker T. Washington. This beautifully illustrated book describes a young boy growing up in the days after emancipation. Despite his aches, pains and hunger, as a result of long laborious days shoveling salt, Booker cannot stop dreaming about ...
I enjoyed this book as a kid, but didn't enjoy it as much as an adult. There were just little things: everyone looks miserable in all the illustrations (camp life wasn't dour all the time), the translation of the kanji on the obelisk is incorrect, one character compares internment to Pearl Harbor. B...
8/5/13 ** I've tagged this as both historical fiction (primarily) and biography (as it might have been). This moving tale is a narrative of how Booker T. Washington might have learned to read.I used this book on the second day of school to begin the discussion with my fourth graders of my own love ...
A educational picture book about the Japanese camps during WWII in the US. It has beautiful artwork, and would be a good way to teach children about a not so pleasant time in history.
A family's visit to a Japanese Relocation Camp, and consequently grandfather's grave. Illustrations switch from present to past; all faces wear the same angry, almost vacant expression. The mood is appropriately serious and somber (as are the illustrations). However I don't believe the emotion of th...
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