Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Meanwhile: Pick any path 3,856 story possibilities


Meanwhile by Jason Shiga is a graphic novel, a choose-your-path story and an interesting idea about reading. The tabs and the pipes send the reader of this graphic story in different directions.

Friday, April 23, 2010

The Champion of Children

The Champion of Children: The story of Janusz Korczak 2009
This books details Korczak, a Pole who started an orphange. His theories were to love and take care of each child. He was a champion of children's rights that are reflected in the UN Rights of the Child. Korczak had to take his children into the Warsaw ghetto in World War II and he and the children dies in Treblinka extermination camp.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Boys without Names


by Kashmira Sheth depicts 11 year old Gopal's experience as his family is forced economically from his village and his family heads to Mumbai. There Gopal is tricked into child labor, but her does not give up as he learns how to survive. This books has a better ending while still showing the child labor system.