by Maia Wojciechowska
Even as a kid, I hated most children's literature, and that was especially true of Newbery works. While it's hardly great literature, "Shadow of a Bull" represents one of their very best. For starters, the book is set in the bullfighting world of Spain in the 1920s, and author Maia Wojciechowska g...
A book about bullfighting seems like the last book I would want to read, but Shadow of a Bull is not just a book about bullfighting. Shadow of a Bull is a rich book about the trials of being the son of a hero, a book about the struggles of a boy trying to find his own way in a world that is attempti...
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