Joining Together for Books

Non-fiction Picture Book Challenge 2013-Hosted by Kid Lit Frenzy!

Issue 1, Book 2/52

 

For this review, I found the book Hands Around the Library, by Susan Roth and Karen Leggett Abouraya, when I was browsing through the "New Books" section at the local library. 

 





 

The book is full of beautiful collages that were created by Susan Roth.  These collages tell the story of how the people of different ages and religions joined hands around the library to protect it during protests against the Egyptian government in 2011.  I feel bad for not knowing about how important this event was for the people at the time.  I went in search of more information about the event and found this link to the book  http://www.handsaroundthelibrary.com/, which has additional information and links to libraries around the world, more about the events that took place and other information about the story, as well as resources for classroom teachers or librarians.

 

This is a remarkable story to read about how the people joined together to protect their library (Alexandria Library) without any sort of protection other than the human hands connecting together to create an awareness that this building was off-limits.  The book shows how the people valued joining together for books!  Books do matter and this story is a reminder of how all people need to value books and not take them for granted.

 

5 of 5 stars for Hands Around the Library!

Non-fiction Picture Book Challenge!



I just joined the non-fiction picture book challenge for 2013 at Kid Lit Frenzy!   You can still link up at the blog if you're interested.   Thanks for tweeting about it @LauraKomos and for hosting it @alybee930!  Looking forward to it because it will help me accomplish 2 goals-more reading and more exposure to Informational Text!

So, after reflecting and thinking a bit more about this challenge, and going from almost zero to some number...I decided to try and do at least one a week-52 by the end of 2013!

I also decided that these will be a mixture of new books recently  published and a few years old...I will try my best to make most them as recent as possible.

Thanks again for the invitation to participate!  Here's to an informational text kind of year ahead!