Dear children ,
Did you open the window to reveal a little spoon peeking out ? Do you remember when we talked about what kind of utensil you would choose to be if you were a utensil? Today’s book is Spoon , by Amy Rosenthal and when I first saw this book show up at the library , I was so surprised and delighted to think of a spoon as having a personality ! What a sweet little someone this one is !!
I now am announcing the title of the book that Neli suggested and that was on behind Dec. 11th’s shutters - Stella by Starlight , by Sharon M. Draper. I haven’t read this book yet , but it is surely a perfect example of why we read, and how the stories contained in books can teach us , and sensitize us to other’s lives . I copied the text of the review from GoodRead’s review . Thank you, Neli for this suggestion .
When the Ku Klux Klan's unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella's segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice in this Depression-era tour de force from Sharon Draper, the New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind.
Stella lives in the segregated South; in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can't. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn't bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they're never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination. As Stella's community - her world - is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire. And she learns that ashes don't necessarily signify an end.
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