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A review by em_may01
The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
3.0
This story covers a lot of different themes such as, death, courage, love and friendship. It tells the story of a young girl who after the tragic death of her friend goes on the hunt to find out the truth about what happened and hopefully save another friend (and her home and Da’). Isabella, is a courageous young girl who thanks to her Ma and Da’ loves cartography which helps her on her travel.
Due to the more mature themes this is best placed in an upper KS2 class either as a class read or to use for a unit of English work. Within the English unit children could write chapter from Lupe’s point of view of what happened to her from when she left to the minute Isabella finds her. Drama could be used to explore both of these characters further and help children develop their understanding of their friendship and the decisions they have made which could be incorporated into their chapter(s).
A map of Joya could be created and then when reading document Isabella’s journey along the map.
Personally I didn’t engage with this book as much as I thought I would, however I can see the potential it has within the classroom and can see that children would enjoy different aspects of this book.
Due to the more mature themes this is best placed in an upper KS2 class either as a class read or to use for a unit of English work. Within the English unit children could write chapter from Lupe’s point of view of what happened to her from when she left to the minute Isabella finds her. Drama could be used to explore both of these characters further and help children develop their understanding of their friendship and the decisions they have made which could be incorporated into their chapter(s).
A map of Joya could be created and then when reading document Isabella’s journey along the map.
Personally I didn’t engage with this book as much as I thought I would, however I can see the potential it has within the classroom and can see that children would enjoy different aspects of this book.