Monday Reading Recap

           Every Monday, it's a pleasure to link up with a group that reviews books they want to share with others. Come discover new books!

          Visit Jen at Teach MentorTexts and Kellee and Ricki at UnleashingReaders to see what they've been reading, along with everyone else who link up.   

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          I didn't post last week, was at a Highlights Poetry Workshop, a wonderful experience. I've read since then and before, but the time away was filled with poetry from everyone there, and from various books. But, I have finished some wonderful chapter books and a couple of picture books, all good!

         I am happy to share this older poetry book and biography. I loved Issa’s story, one of love-for haiku, and one of sorrow--much loss and rejection. With haiku on every page, accompanied by the original language and gorgeous illustrations, it is a biography that entertains the reader as well as teaches the writer.

           It’s a myth with basic facts about the evolution of wolves evolving into dogs as friends of men. Hudson Talbott has created a fiction story to tell the tale, about an "outcast" young boy and young wolf who eventually find that it is to the advantage of both that they survive together. And soon, there are more like this pair. Some facts are included in the story showing changes of dogs through many years, but I believe it would be a mistake to present this as truth. At least more research is needed, and some sources are given in an author's note. The author writes that this is a "myth of origin", and like other tales that have been created, he too has created one. The illustrations are lively and interesting.