pickA wonderful mostly wordless MGGN about a girl who leaves Cuba without her parents under the Peter/Pedro Pan operation. Her life in Cuba is in color; her life in NYC is in grayscale. I love how the color shows up in books, foods, and flowers, bringing her back to life. This book brought me almost to tears, just thinking what it must be like to send a child away for years, not knowing if/when you‘d see her again, for her safety.
March wrap up. A slow reading month. I enjoyed all my mg reads but I had to DNF the memory of running. Not a bad book, it just didn‘t capture my attention.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Got two mg books in this week! I really enjoyed this wordless graphic novel about The Peter (Pedro) Pan Project which was a program that helped children immigrate from Cuba to America during the 1960‘s. I loved the use of color that helped to convey the story line.
My March #Bookspin books are perfect for #MiddleGradeMarch (which is pretty much every month for me 😉)
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pickAn absolutely gorgeous and well told graphic novel. I am a huge fan of comics without words. This book does a great job of using color and expression to portray how Marisol is feeling in her new, unfamiliar setting. I coincidentally read another book about children fleeing Cuba as Castro rose to power recently as well, and they contextualized each other really well. #Comic #HistoricalFiction
pickI love that this is nearly wordless. What a beautiful message that our stories are universally understandable, even when we don‘t share a language. 💙
pickGorgeous and emotional nearly wordless graphic novel telling the story of Marisol, sent to NYC as a middle schooler, from Cuba, not long after Castro took took power. The use of color is magnificent and amplifies the raw emotion here.
pickSometimes you peruse the library shelves and find a gem. This middle grade graphic novel tells the fictional story of Marisol, 1 of 14,000 children flown to new families in the US In Operation Peter Pan after Castro came to power in Cuba. Lucky to have found this!
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