The Sunday Salon: A Three-Book Week

Today's Featured Book:
Grace Notes: Poems About Families
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Genre: Poetry
Published: May 7, 2024
Page Count: 224 pages
Summary:
National Book Award finalist and former Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye’s Grace Notes: Poems about Families celebrates family and community. This rich collection of one hundred never-before-published poems is also the poet’s most personal work to date. With poems about her own childhood and school years, her parents and grandparents, and the people who have touched and shaped her life in so many ways, this is an emotional and sparkling collection to savor, share, and read again and again.
How Parents Ever Get Together Anyway
They might grow up on opposite sides of the world
Different religions, different foods,
then one day they come to a town in Kansas
take jobs in the same psychiatric hospital
neither of them doctors...
yes, sure, that sounds likely...
Every Age
If you open the door
to happiness
what comes through?...
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I am delighted to be able to share some of my favorite kids' books set in another time and place with you today. These are children's fiction. But don't let that put you off reading these. These are amazing stories. Most are on the 1001 Children's Books You Must Read list or were chosen as Newbery winners.
Do you have any other recommendations for me
for either adult's or children's historical fiction?
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