Sunday, July 28, 2024

The Thanksgiving Story (1954)

the Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh is the version of Thanksgiving I learned as a child. The Mayflower arrives in the new world after a treacherous voyage. Life is hard. Relations with the Indians are good as they celebrate a first Thanksgiving. I will save this book with my other ancestral belongings. It tells a story we want to believe.

That Neighbor Kid (2017)

  That Neighbor Kid by Daniel Miyares (2017) is pretty much wordless. The boy and girl speak only once, and that's to say "Hi...