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Sun & Spoon

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I am a sap. I admit it. I get weepy when one of those touching television commercials comes on. Disney movies can get me too. Those are visual images, though. Books have never gotten to me in the same way. I sold books for six years and am now a Children's Librarian...so I read and have always read A LOT. Only two books have ever made me cry.

This one made me weep. It is a thing of beauty. The prose is spare and poetic. The characters breathe from their first appearance. The story is so real, so well handled. I don't think anyone could read this short novel and come away unaffected. There is a wonderful network of symbols at work in this book...but you don't have to analize them in order to enjoy meeting Spoon and his family...to feel the depth of his relationship with both his grandparents...and glimpse with him the depth of his grandparent's relationship with each other. Excellent reading for any age reader!

Sun and Spoon is a really good book for 7 to 19 year olds to enjoy alot. Sun and Spoon is a story, where their grandmother dies, and a boy named Spoon that's looking for something of hers to keep to remember her by. Sun and Spoon is about a sister and brother fighting but also how they make again. It's about stealing a deck of sun cards that belong to his grandmother. But giving them back after awhile. It's about lieing to his grandfather about the deck of cards. It's about collecting stuff after a nice stormy rain fall. Sun and Spoon is about giving people things to remeber somebody by. It's about helping famliy out and spening time with them evey day. So if you like to read books about family then you should get Sun and Spoon. It's a really, really good book to read, especialy at a young age.

Kevin Henke did again. He made another one of his spectacular books. Sun and Spoon is a great book for children. It teaches kids honesty, friendship, and family. It talks about a boy who hardly knew a thing about his grandma. Then when he wanted to know a little about her it was to late, she had died. This taught me that I should spend time with older people in my family, especially my great aunt and uncle. That's why I go to their house every other week. This book had a big impact on me and it might do the same to you

Sun & Spoon presents how a young lad copes with the death of his grandmother. Henkes presents the story in such a touching way as Spoon searches for something tangible to remember his gram by. Not only does the story depict outward expressions of grief that Spoon deals with but also reveals his inner struggle of right and wrong. Spoon matures as the series of events unfold and learns a deep truth that a sorrow shared is, indeed, a sorrow halved. He and his grandfather both feel closer to gram as they play double soltaire with gram's deck of cards!

I thought this book was a very good book. Tha main character is Spoon Gilmore. If you like plays you will like this book. This book is broken up into parts. This is what the book is about. It was only two months since Spoon'sgrandmother died. He thought he would need something to remind him of her. Spoon's little sister Joanie won't stop tagging along and pestering him even when they go into their grandmother's house. I hope you read this book and like it as much as I did.

Character descriptions of the children, the adults and even the objects are clear and made me imagine each one. I identified with the loss of a loved person and I, too, wear a necklace from my mom.

The family members are each unique and I found I liked each one for the place they held in the group. If every family had reactions and love for the members like the family in Kevin Henkes,SUN AND SPOON, the children and the adults alike will all weather life better for the belonging to the family group.

I think this was a great book. I liked the part when spoon takes gram's cards, but when he does that, he also finds out that pa uses them to keep close to her. It was a great book and it made me kinda wanting to cry. In conclusion, It was a very good book and I suggest you guys to read it.

Sort of sad but touching. It is about a kid named spoon, his sister, mom and dad and grandpa. Spoon wants to find something of his grandmother who had died a couple of months ago. Read this book if you want to find out what Spoon finds of his grandmother's.

I really liked the book. I would tell every one to read it. It was good, I liked the way he explained the character. I would recomend Sun and Spoon to ever one.

I really liked the book "Sun and Spoon." I t was kind of sad but overall, it was a story of a kid whose grandmother (Gram) died and he wants something special of hers and he finds something and keeps it. I would recomend this book to anyone of any age group.