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A review by downsophialane
Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
5.0
This is a lovely audio version of a new picture book about the human capacity for "improbably joy" even in the darkest of circumstances. Set in an American Japanese internment camp, Love in the Library offers a sweet romance while introducing young readers to a dark chapter of the US' past. Based on the author's maternal grandparents' experience, this is a hopeful meditation on human resilience and the capacity for love.
🍎 TO TEACH?
Without knowing much about how Japanese internment camps are covered in history or civics classes, I can imagine that this would be a helpful introductory or supplementary text for a number of grade stages.
As an English teacher, I can see this fitting into a picture book unit to support visual language receptive skills, as well as a model for presenting diverse stories in the picture book format. The audio would beautifully read by narrator Sura Siu. In class I would use this audiobook as I showed the picture book physically to support visual and listening skills.
💙💙💙💙💙 5 stars
Thank you to Dreamscape Media and Libro.fm for granting early access to this lovely audiobook through their ALC program.
🍎 TO TEACH?
Without knowing much about how Japanese internment camps are covered in history or civics classes, I can imagine that this would be a helpful introductory or supplementary text for a number of grade stages.
As an English teacher, I can see this fitting into a picture book unit to support visual language receptive skills, as well as a model for presenting diverse stories in the picture book format. The audio would beautifully read by narrator Sura Siu. In class I would use this audiobook as I showed the picture book physically to support visual and listening skills.
💙💙💙💙💙 5 stars
Thank you to Dreamscape Media and Libro.fm for granting early access to this lovely audiobook through their ALC program.