From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:47:43 -0500

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:04:51 00, Laura Lane
  wrote:

Kira-Kira is a beautifully written book and the author well deserves the award. However, as much as I truly admire the lyrical writing, exquisitely developed characters, and involving plot, I personally have a very hard time with books in which children die, especially of a long and lingering illness as in this one. So it is not a book I would read aloud to my fourth grade class. However, I think a teacher that loves this book, passionately wants to read it aloud, and is confident that ALL her/his students can handle it should feel free to do so. I feel teachers should read aloud books they love to show their students what it is to feel strongly about a book. And I also think teachers need to be hyper-aware of all their students so that they can be sure a sad book such as this one is something that they can all appreciate. Best way to know if it is for your group is to read it yourself!

Monica

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Monica Edinger
The Dalton School
New York NY
edinger at dalton.org
monicaedinger at gmail.

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