Feb
2
2010
Book Recommendation: So Far from the Sea and One Candle
Two books from the MHC’s recently created New Books New Readers series “Carrying the Past” suggest themselves as appropriate for winter reading: So Far from the Sea and One Candle. Eve Bunting, the author of both stories, is outstanding in her ability to create thoughtful stories that address hard topics with warmth and hope. Both books address this issue in our theme of “Carrying the Past”: What do we choose from our past to preserve as a family or cultural memory? Both stories are told in first person by a child experiencing a tradition that the family wants remembered from their past.
