Japanese internment, or more accurately, the incarceration of persons of Japanese descent during the Second World War, is a hard history that must nevertheless be taught. For younger children, picture books are an ideal place from which to start.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...especially when the woman scorned is a witch. Maria Owen navigates joy, pain, and the trials and tribulations that come with love in Alice Hoffman's Magic Lessons.
Kramer has teased readers with this work for thirty years. Four years ago, I mentioned I was anxious for it come out. All 775 pages of Volume 1 have finally arrived.
