Magda's Reviews > A Scarf for Keiko

Read to L and T and S for the Cedar Rapids winter reading challenge. Knitting socks for soldiers in WWII, combined with Japanese American internment camps was a lot of heavy material, but presented very well, drawing out the main character's internal struggle and growth. Talked with kids about what does it mean to be a "good American" and how people might define that differently. Illustrations fun, and kids liked the parallels between the illustrations and the photographs at the end of the book with the historical information. (Acquired a larger audience than initially intended.)