Monday Reads

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        Next: I'm reading an old James Herriot book. It's peaceful and full of good stories.  After, I'm hoping to read the new verse novel by Jeannine Atkins, Stone Mirrors. It'll be a nice week of reading. I have a pile of lovely picture books waiting, too.

      This is number four completed of my #MustReadIn2017 list. See above. I'm not sure why I delayed reading this for so long. I owned the book! But like others in a pile, it simply was pushed to the bottom often. I enjoyed it thoroughly, loved the weaving back and forth from today's John Lewis happening upon a mother and her two boys visiting his office, and having the most wonderful surprise of seeing THE John Lewis. They only came to peek at his office. And the tale began, John telling them of his earliest days as a learner, and as a lover of chickens (read Preaching To The Chickens), at wondering about preaching, and going off to college. There he met Dr. Martin Luther King, there he met others who showed him about non-resistance, and there he began his lifelong passion for equal rights for his people. The graphic style seemed perfect to show so much of the setting and the people's actions.  With Andrew Aydin, John Lewis wrote the story with enough dialogue and connecting text to keep me excited to hear this story. Nate Powell's art was starkly serious when it needed to be with emotionally charged action and facial expressions. The faces showed joy, despair, hope and anger, all part of a mixed-up world.  I'm happy that I finally started this journey.  

          I need to find March Book Two fast because I won Alyson Beecher's Sibert Award prize winners, so now I have Book Three! Isn't that great!