Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "extra-yarn"
"Extra Yarn" and "My Lost Freedom"
This week had some light-hearted fun and some serious thinking.
Extra Yarn
5 stars
Author: Mac Barnett
Illustrator: Jon Klassen
Annabelle lived in a black and white world. One day she found a box filled with yarn of many colors. She began to knit and knit and knit covering the black and white with color.
The illustrations are simple, filled with details and fun. The yarn coats look warm in a snowy world.
My Lost Freedom
5 stars
Author: George Takei
Illustrator: Michelle Lee
I had previously read his graphic novel about the Japanese Internment Camps. This is more of a serious nonfiction account of a bit of American history than a true picture book.
George and his family were of Japanese descent, American citizens, yet, a month after Pearl Harbor, the government declared them along with anyone of Japanese descent enemy aliens and ordered their arrest and confinement in camps. He was very young and grew up thinking it was normal to have barbed wire and guards around him. This is about his time at various places during these years.
The illustrations are first rate. They create the feeling of being in the camps without creating despair.
Extra Yarn
5 stars
Author: Mac Barnett
Illustrator: Jon Klassen
Annabelle lived in a black and white world. One day she found a box filled with yarn of many colors. She began to knit and knit and knit covering the black and white with color.
The illustrations are simple, filled with details and fun. The yarn coats look warm in a snowy world.
My Lost Freedom
5 stars
Author: George Takei
Illustrator: Michelle Lee
I had previously read his graphic novel about the Japanese Internment Camps. This is more of a serious nonfiction account of a bit of American history than a true picture book.
George and his family were of Japanese descent, American citizens, yet, a month after Pearl Harbor, the government declared them along with anyone of Japanese descent enemy aliens and ordered their arrest and confinement in camps. He was very young and grew up thinking it was normal to have barbed wire and guards around him. This is about his time at various places during these years.
The illustrations are first rate. They create the feeling of being in the camps without creating despair.
