Book Review : Blackout

Book that delivers simple but yet useful/beautiful message , message that is more needed In today's tech savvy world.

 

The story : 

It was a busy summer night , the entire city was loud and noisy and there lives a small girl with her parents and sister and her little cat in a house . 

Everyone in the house was busy in different chores , cooking, surfing , chatting over phone , little girl wants to play board game but all are busy and no one has time to spend with her .She was upset.Suddenly the power goes off and everything stopped working , the entire family sat up in the candle light.

They go to roof top , enjoy the light of stars, and there was a block party happening between the residents . They come down to the road , and participate with others in the party. Suddenly the power restores and everyone was back to their work and busy again.

Little girl doesn't like , now what she does to bring back everyone together again is the story.

Review: 

The importance of spending time with the family together is beautifully explained with outstanding illustrations .

This Caldecott honor book will sure take us to our good old times where we used to gaze at moon and stars at the rooftop of our house, chit chat, eat and play with friends and relatives .

Book Review : Drum Dream Girl

Book : Drum Dream Girl

Author : Margarita Engle

Illustrator : Rafael Lopez

Books from the same author : The poet slave of Cuba, The surrender tree, The lightning dreamer .

Age : 3 plus 

Winner of the pura belpre award 2016 for best illustration , this book spreads the message of "Follow your dreams and They Know the way ". An historical fiction which is the true story of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga a Cuban drummer. 

 

Story

In An island of music a little girl dreams, her dream is to become a drummer . Always she imagines pounding conga drums ,tapping bongo drums and booming with long sticks on timbales.

But everyone in that island believed only boys should play drums and not girls., so her dream remains always a dream .

She is always busy watching the drums played by men in outdoor cafes and carnivals.Tables and chairs becomes drum in home for her . 

Her sisters invite her to play drums in their all girls band, but her father refuses and sends her to a teacher to find out whether she is really good in drums . With the help of the teacher how she makes people

tap for her beats is the rest of the story.

Review 

Filled with beautiful and poetic illustrations this book celebrates music , breaks gender stereotypes and inspires children to follow their dreams .