Rating: 5 star rating
I just finished reading My Kentucky Moonlight School by Kim Michele Richardson, and it is a sweet and moving story. It is a picture book about a little eight year old girl named Jewel who helps her grandparents learn how to read and write. Her grandmother Mamaw is studying hard for a community spelling match, and her grandfather Papaw wants to learn so he can finally read Jewel a bedtime story.
There are also other adult students from the town, like a proud coal miner and a lady named Widow Morrison, who walk through the dark mountain woods at night just to get an education at the local one room schoolhouse.
The book is also a tribute to Cora Wilson Stewart, the real historical educator who started the whole Moonlight School movement in Kentucky back in 1911 to help adults learn how to read. I loved how this book showed that it is never too late to learn. It really makes you realize how life changing it is to know how to read, whether it is a worker making sure they get fair pay or a mom writing letters to her kids.
The illustrations by Chloe M. Giroux are beautiful and really make the Kentucky mountains feel alive. This is definitely a great historical and family oriented book to read to the family, and I highly recommend getting this book.
Overall, this is just a really clean, inspiring, and beautiful tribute to family and history that anyone would enjoy reading.
Thank you, NetGalley, W. W. Norton & Company, author Kim Michele Richardson, and Chloe M. Giroux, illustrator, for providing me with a copy of this ebook review consideration. All review opinions are my own.
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