Reviewed by Pat Corekin Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Simone tells the story of a mother and child during an evacuation from a raging fire in California and the mother’s memories of fleeing a flood in Vietnam when she was a child. As Simone’s mother recounts the story of the flood when she […]
Kiyoshi’s Walk
Reviewed by Pat Corekin Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: “Where do poems come from?” young Kiyoshi asks his grandfather, Eto, and so begins a wonderful journey of poetic discovery. Eto takes Kiyoshi for a walk through their city. The smallest events — a cat knocking over oranges at the corner store, birds soaring […]
Violet the Snowgirl: A Story of Loss and Healing
Reviewed by: Pat Corekin Review source: Teaching for Change Book author: Two children, Jerzie and Josiah, spend a day building a snowgirl with their grandmother. As they construct their snowgirl, their imaginations create a number of adventure stories — Violet the Snowgirl is a pilot, an alien, a third grade teacher, a librarian, a veterinarian, […]
The Cat Man of Aleppo
Reviewed by Pat Corekin Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Based on the true story of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, The Cat Man of Aleppo provides a poignant account of one man’s struggle to save the lives of cats abandoned in the wake of the Syrian war, which started in 2011 and is still ongoing. […]
Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation
Reviewed by Pat Corekin Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Written for young adults, Poisoned Water gives a harrowing account of the Flint water crisis. The disaster that unfolded wasn’t something that happened just with the turn of a switch from the Detroit water supply to the contaminated Flint River. This was 100 years […]