I was happy to be able to share the concept of the remembrance table in my review of Margot Theis’ important picture book, America’s White Table. Her prose and Mike Benny’s illustrations are a winning combination to deliver this story.
Sleeping Bear Press offered copies of the book to three readers of She is Too Fond [...]
America’s White Table by Margot Theis Raven, illustrated by Mike Benny
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 48 pages
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press; 1 edition (April 21, 2005)
ISBN-13: 978-1585362165
Back-of-the-book blurb: The White Table is set in many halls as a symbol for and remembrance to service members fallen, missing, or held captive in the line of duty. Solitary and [...]
The Listeners by Gloria Whelan, illustrated by Mike Benny
Reading level: Ages 6-10 (see notes on age range, below)
Library Binding: 40 pages
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press (September 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-1585364190
Back-of-the-book blurb: Ella May lives on a plantation but she doesn’t live in the great house. She is a slave. It’s dark in the morning when Ella May heads [...]
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