Reviews for Handful of Seeds

The average rating for Handful of Seeds based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-12-18 00:00:00 mark williams This kid's book introduces a lot of issues (poverty, police brutality, gardening, etc.) subtlety and you can talk about them in depth more as your child grows. A young girl and her grandmother are sharecroppers and when the grandmother dies, the granddaughter runs away to the city and joins a gang of abandoned children in a tent city. She convinces them to grow a garden so they don't have to steal food but the cops come, trample the garden and beat the children. In the end, the children end up re-building the garden and making peace with the rival gang of neglected children. It's a sweet story.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-01-07 00:00:00 Jennifer Bruce I liked this book a LOT. It doesn't explain the things it shouldn't (e.g., why her parents aren't around, words like "sharecropping" and "homeless"), and it makes her situation come alive instead of seeming like a lesson. The illustrations have a style that I have come to associate with Mexican and Central American childrens books, and that makes sense for this book, but I just didn't connect to them. In retrospect, given how much I want this as part of my library, I am changing my rating.