From: Sally Miller <derbymiller>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:07:46 -0500

I'm sorry to say I haven't had a chance to read We are the Ship yet, although I did buy it, but a young friend from church is reading it first. But I did get to read my copy of Becoming Billie Holiday and I can't praise it enough. It is honest, accessible, and heartfelt. What a great choice to have available when students are assigned "a biography" to report on. It was a stroke of genius to give the various poems the same title as songs Billie recorded! Floyd Cooper's illustrations are beautiful and evocative. And I am especially impressed by the choice of subjects--Billie Holiday like Coca Chanel ( see "Different Like Coco") is an untraditional strong female whose story can inspire young readers who feel themselves "outside the main stream."

Sally Derby "No Mush Today."
Received on Mon 30 Mar 2009 01:07:46 PM CDT