Classics, Nonfiction, and Children's Literature
As the subtitle indicates, A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila (published 2025) tells the story of a young person, in a poetry-in-verse format, who stood up for civil rights in 1930s San Diego. In this middle grade historical fiction novel, the young Mexican-American Roberto narrates his story
The titular cumulus cloud in Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld (Henry Holt, 2011) is small and seems insignificant amidst the other, larger clouds. When wind blows her to a desert area, she finds the strength within her to make a difference in her way. The illustrations of the friendly cloud are simple and endearing, and the ultimate resolution is
Claire at Kiss a Cloud recently called Eileen Chang’s stories “anti-love” stories, and I think that is an apt description. Eileen Chang, who wrote in the 1940s, captured relationships in her stories, and her perspective is unfailing bitter. These stories do not, for the most part, have happy endings, even when the man and the
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