pickThemes: Family (especially sisters!), Ireland and NYC during 1950s to 2000‘s, Great storytelling!
I was hooked from page 1 of this beautifully written book 🥰 Mary Beth Keane has a gift for amazing storytelling and scenery setting; you‘ll shiver from the rain she describes and feel yourself warm up with her descriptions of drinking tea beside a roaring fire. A definite pick!!!
Why yes, I did “treat myself” to some tea after I cleaned up the kitchen post-dinner 😆👵🏼 Settling in for some ‘Finding Your Roots‘ with a little book reading on this crazy Tuesday night 😍🥰
pickHeartbreaking story about love and coming to the United States from all over Latin America.
March 3 #ItTakesAllKinds Mythical Here we go again with an Led Zeppelin song 🎵 @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickI enjoyed this take on a Chinese family immigrant story.
Tony moved his family to the US from China looking for a better life. I really liked how the author weaved everyone‘s stories and there are some beautiful passages about family and loyalty (and some very thought-provoking ones about discrimination, sexism and racism) throughout the book.
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50 pages in and really liking this…Also, feels nice to read a physical book, since I‘ve been mostly reading on my Kindle lately.
“And just like sugar in milk, we will sweeten your lives with our presence.“
I found there to be details present throughout the illustrations of the story that helped in supporting the differentiation in the young girl's culture as opposed to the new culture in which she now lives in. I appreciated these subtle yet very powerful and meaningful details. I think that this story could be used in an early elementary classroom in order to teach students about immigration as well as diversity.
so-soThie story is an example of a folk tale which is a type of traditional literature. In this book, two stories overlap with one another. One of which being old and the other being more modern. The book told the story of a young girl who recently moved to a new country to live. She explained how she felt so lonely because she was not like others. The story about immigration demonstrates the power of diversity and acceptance in a well written manner.
