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May 2002

Children’s Book Reviews
A literary tribute to the greatest of enduring cities...New York!

PICTURE BOOK: AGES 5 THRU 8
Big Jimmy’s Kum Kau Chinese Take Out by Ted Lewin. (Harper Collins, 32 pp., $16.95). Experience the sights, sounds and smells of a Chinese take-out restaurant. Realistic watercolor paintings capture the hustle and bustle of the morning vegetable delivery, expert food preparations, and the daily mid afternoon lunch rush. The owner’s son is the reader’s guide, stuffing bags with condiments and of course, the fortune cookie.

POETRY: AGES 5 THRU 8
My Chinatown: One Year in Poems by Kam Mak. (Harper Collins, 32 pp., $16.89). Handsomely rendered with photo-realistic paintings, 15 poems express the emotional/personal experience of a Chinese boy from Hong Kong adjusting to New York’s Chinatown. The imagery evoked is poignant: English words taste like metal in his mouth, sidewalk cobblers mend worn-out shoes, and startling red confetti from firecrackers drape the streets. These poems are grouped by the four seasons, spanning his adjustment period from one Chinese New Year to the next.

HISTORY: AGES 6 THRU 10
Liberty! by Allan Drummond. (Foster Frances Books, 32 pp., $17.00). “Freedom is like a flame we must...keep burning bright!” A tribute to that exciting day in 1886 when the Statue of Liberty was unveiled to the world with all of New York’s Harbor watching, including the President of the United States and 200 suffragists. Swirling images finely rendered in pen and wash.

BIOGRAPHY: AGES 8 THRU 10
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa by Andrea Davis Pinkney. (Little Brown and Co., 32 pp., $17.49). Just 17 years old, Ella began her half a century long career singing on stage at the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem. This ‘First Lady of Song’ won generations of fans around the world for her velvety smooth voice and heartfelt intonations. Scratch board illustrations bring the rhythms of bebop and swing to life with almost magical strokes.

Selene Vasquez is a media specialist at Orange Brook Elementary School in Hollywood, Florida. She is formerly a children’s librarian for the New York Public Library.

 

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