Beautiful illustrations, a dark version of the story.

Beautiful illustrations and a sweet story about what is really important in life.

A book about finding your purpose. I liked this one a lot.

Cute pictures.

Love the limited color palette. I think it's a good text to introduce kids to heartbreak and how to recover.

This was really sweet, and makes me want to check out the other Max and Marla books.

Short, powerful poems of Moishe Moskowitz's life in Poland during World War II, including his time in concentration camps and surviving two death marches. Powerful and thought-provoking.

This is an excellent story about a boy named Jay, who was born in the Philippines but moved to America when he was about a year old. He doesn't feel that connected to his Filipino roots, but when his cousin dies, he wants nothing more than to solve the mystery of his death. He throws himself into learning about his cousin, and in doing so, finds out a lot about the country where he was born, his family, and himself. Beautiful writing.

I was caught up in this story about Manuel, a twelve year old boy who rides the top of a train to get from Mexico to the United States. de Rhodes and Johnston don't shy away from the violence that happens to people who cross the border in this way, or why people would. I liked the way Spanish was integrated into the story and not always translated. There is a glossary in the back if you would like to look a word up.

I would love to know more about the process that went into making this book, as I think that would be very interesting. How did the two authors work together?