I Can Hear The Sun: A Modern Myth (picture Puffins)

from AbigailAdams26

Patricia Polacco, a picture-book author and artist who is unafraid to explore some of the darker realities of human existence in her stories for children - the heartbreak of childhood cancer, in The Lemonade Club; the brutality of slavery, in January's Sparrow; the ravages of civil war, in Pink a...

from kjacks26

I liked this book for many reasons. First, I liked this book because it had a lot of different multicultural aspects. While reading this book, readers will be exposed to homelessness, disabilities, and orphans. I liked that the illustrator left a lot of white space, and the reader's eyes are inst...

from Whisper1

High on my list of Polacco's wonderful children's illustrated books, this one address very difficult situations without over dramatizing. When a sad, forlorn, lonely child is found sitting on the bench of Lake Merritt in California, Stephanie Michele, who cares for the geese who live on the shore...

from Whisper1

High on my list of Polacco's wonderful children's illustrated books, this one address very difficult situations without over dramatizing. When a sad, forlorn, lonely child is found sitting on the bench of Lake Merritt in California, Stephanie Michele, who cares for the geese who live on the shore...