Wednesday, February 25, 2009

"Come On Home Soon"

"Come one Home Soon" by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E. B. Lewis was a really good multicultural book. The pictures are just beautiful and the story line is emotionally. It'd about a little girl, Ada Ruth, who has to stay with her grandmother while her mom goes to look for a job cleaning trains. Times are hard, and the railroad are hiring African American women to work because the men are away away at war. The book takes place during the Civil War and Ada Ruth misses her mother terrabley. This book won the Caldecott award and i wou;d strongly recommend it.

1 comment:

  1. This sounds like a great multicultural book that brings up issues of African Americans in the workforce, the civil war, and a little girl who experiences the absence of her mother because of employment.

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