Monday, September 7, 2009
A Good Book: Megan Cotterman
One book to which I view as a "good book" is the book Sounder by Willian H. Armstrong. Sounder is a Newbery award winning book. It is about a young African American boy in the 19th century south who relies on his old coon dog Sounder to get his families meals. The book is a heart warming story and provides children a glimpse of the hard times that were faced in the south during a time of racisism and slavery. It is an historical fiction classic that teachers could have their children read in social studies when they talk about African American history.
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I love children's books about past events that show them in their terms how things were. Kids don't want to sit there and read a boring textbook about history, they would rather read it in a book that has some adventure and something they could understand.
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