Natasha from Maw Books Blog has posted an amazing interview with Ken Mochizuki here. You really must check it out, along with her reviews of Mochizuiki’s Baseball Saved Us and Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story.
Review: PASSAGE TO FREEDOM by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee
Natasha from Maw Books Blog recently reviewed Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee (illustrator). Here’s an excerpt:
Passage to Freedom is a story that illustrates that there were Japanese who did heroic things during World War II. Told from the point of view of five-year-old Hiroki Sugihara, the eldest son [...]
Review: BASEBALL SAVED US by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee
Natasha from Maw Books Blog recently reviewed Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee (illustrator). Here’s an excerpt:
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee is a wonderful picture book for younger readers to introduce them to a part of American history, particularly the relocation of Japanese Americans from their homes [...]
Review: MY LUCKY STAR by Zdenka Fantlova
Carol from Magistra Mater recently reviewed My Lucky Star by Zdenka Fantlova. Here’s an excerpt:
Zdenka Fantlová decided on a whim that she ought to learn to speak English. When the race laws expelled her from her final year of school in 1940, she attended the English Institute in Prague and learned the language under teachers [...]
Review: 10 DAYS: ANNE FRANK by David Colbert
Dar from Peeking Between the Pages recently reviewed 10 Days: Anne Frank by David Colbert. Here’s an excerpt:
This story is told to us as the events of these 10 Days being the days that not only changed Anne’s world, but ours as well. I’ve read quite a few novels now on the Holocaust and I’m [...]
Reviews: BAND OF BROTHERS and BEYOND BAND OF BROTHERS
Carol from Magistra Mater recently reviewed Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose and Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters.
Here’s a little of what she had to say about Band of Brothers:
Stephen Ambrose’s book Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s [...]
Review: STRANGE DEFEAT: A STATEMENT OF EVIDENCE by Marc Bloch
Matt from Matt’s Book Blog recently reviewed Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence by Marc Bloch. Here’s an excerpt:
French medievalist Marc Bloch was murdered by the Gestapo for his activities in the Resistance only 14 days before the liberation of France in 1944. In 1940, soon after the fall of France, he wrote Strange Defeat: [...]
Review: THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE by Diane Ackerman
Christina from Jackets & Covers recently reviewed The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman. Here’s an excerpt:
When I purchased The Zookeeper’s Wife I thought the book would be historical fiction; I wasn’t expecting a biography and a peek into both the Warsaw Underground Resistance and the Nazis’ attempt to reintroduce extinct species into the animal kingdom. [...]
Review: HOW TO COOK A WOLF by M.F.K. Fisher
Gavin from Page247 has reviewed How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher. Sounds like an interesting book about eating during wartime food shortages. Maybe it could prove useful today, in the midst of a weak economy that has hit many of us hard in the wallet.
Read the review here.
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