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Onion John
by Joseph Krumgold
Reading this book through the lens of someone Onion John would consider to have grown up, it’s a little weird. A young boy makes friends with an adult man and no one seems to mind? They do weird superstitions rituals and no one seems to mind? But the message of this book: that you can’t force assimilation, that you can’t force someone to change, is important. It wasn’t until I finished this book that it became clear to me why Onion John won the Newbery: it is a great story to subtly teach young children (and almost adults) about differences in cultures and understanding that you can’t just make people be like you.