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Today was my last PTA meeting as president, folks, and I’m not sad about it. I AM sad about aging out of Fox Hills, though–it’s a lovely elementary school in every way (except for last summer’s “broken” air conditioning that we have district suspicions about). Between that meeting, however, and making muffins for that meeting in time for my AP testing daughter to eat some before school, and the dishes, and Costco, and giving blood, well–there’s a reason we’re calling these observations rather than reviews.
Item one: Rebecca Rose Mooradian’s Rose by the Sea: An Armenian Journey of Courage and Hope, which was a beautiful picture book based on the true story of the author’s ancestor and the Armenian Genocide. The illustrations and the language were both lovely, I have to say; my one critical observation is that, while it’s poetic and gentle, it isn’t actually informative enough. I can appreciate the difficulty of how much to share in a picture book for children, but I don’t think there’s enough context here for the true power of the story to make sense without some background information. As a companion to David Kherdian’s The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope, however, it would be excellent.
Item two: Frozen Hi-Chew pops taste exactly like cold Hi-Chews. It’s uncanny. Even the texture is spot on.
There’s your two observations, folks–have a great weekend!