Myra here
Every Sunday, we share the books that have hunted us down and found their way into our hearts and hands. Last week I shared the first part of my book loot, all thanks to the National Library’s Double Up Your Reading promotion until end of this month. Today, I shall be featuring graphic novels, YA fiction, and poetry books in keeping with our current reading theme.
Graphic Novels About War
A Game For Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return by Zeina Abirached; Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki; Fax from Sarajevo: A Story of Survival by Joe Kubert.
Last Day in Vietnam: A Memoir by Will Eisner, The Walking Stick by Maxine Trottier and illustrated by Annouchka Gravel Galouchko. While the latter is technically not a graphic novel but a picture book, I decided to put this here as it is also about Vietnam. Palestine by Joe Sacco, and Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle.
Middle Grade/YA Fiction about War
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr and illustrated by Ronald Himler, A Thunderous Whisper by Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis.
The Breadwinner Trilogy by Deborah Ellis, Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins, and The Boy on the Wooden Box by by
The Soothing Voice of Poetry
Voice From Afar: Poems Of Peace by Tony Johnston and illustrated by Susan Guevara, Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel by Alice Walker, The Space Between Our Footsteps selected by Naomi Shihab Nye, Peace Begins with You by Katharine Scholes and illustrated by Robert Ingpen.
Received from Epigram Books
I am also very excited to receive this books from Epigram for our current reading theme. Thank you so much to the Epigram Books people for sending this (special shout-out to Aditi and Aqilah)!
Flowers at Dawn by Singai Ma Elangkannan and translated by A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Tiananmen: 25th Anniversary Edition by Morgan Chua.
This Just In… Picked Up from the Library Today
I just picked this up from the library this morning. Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza.
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