PoC Reading Challenge 2012
Nonfiction Monday: The House that Baba Built by Ed Young
I have a special affinity with picture book biographies – as I think can be gleaned from most of our Nonfiction Monday posts. And I would be totally remiss if I do not include in our list this breathtakingly-illustrated picture book of the one and only Ed Young: The House that Baba Built. Our lovely [...]
A Woman’s Life: A few thoughts on Lost and Found
Over the years, I have acquired a liking for non-fiction, specifically Filipino non-fiction. Every trip to the bookstore includes a long, patient investigation of the Filipiniana section seeking a few surprises and some dose of Filipino non-fiction. I’m not sure how it began, maybe I started to acquire the taste via Bob Ong’s humorous essays [...]
Nonfiction Monday: Drawing from Memory by Allen Say
Since we have joined Nonfiction Monday last year, I’ve been seeing quite a number of reviews devoted to Allen Say’s Drawing from Memory and being a fan of award-winning Allen Say, I knew I just had to find this in our library so that I could own it through my review. It was difficult for [...]
Nonfiction Monday: Becoming Billie Holiday
As we are about to end our bimonthly theme on Girl Power and Women’s Wiles, we thought that it would be fitting to feature one of our all-time favorite singers, Billie Holiday, through her story written in verse by Carole Boston Weatherford and artwork by Floyd Cooper. Nonfiction Monday is hosted this week by The [...]
