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A review by calistareads
Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson
4.0
This is a beautiful poem. A young girl waits for her mama to come back home during the winter. She is living with her grandma after her mom has gone to Chicago to make some money during the war, I’m assuming WWII, but it doesn’t say. Life goes on, but she misses her mama.
The artwork is a little fuzzy and not much color to really evoke that feeling of winter. That sense of waiting goes well with the season. It’s very well done. It’s a beautiful book, but it’s on the melancholy side of feelings. It is low energy and it’s about waiting, not anything exciting and uplifting until the mother is coming home and the colors brighten and it does uplift.
So needless to say, the kids weren’t real thrilled with this realistic slow story. The nephew outright hated it and gave it 1 star. It’s boring. The niece understood missing her mama. She misses her mama all the time. She didn’t like a story about waiting for mama. That made her feel a little anxious. She too didn’t like the story and gave it 1 star. This is for kids who appreciate a more nuanced and slower story.
The artwork is a little fuzzy and not much color to really evoke that feeling of winter. That sense of waiting goes well with the season. It’s very well done. It’s a beautiful book, but it’s on the melancholy side of feelings. It is low energy and it’s about waiting, not anything exciting and uplifting until the mother is coming home and the colors brighten and it does uplift.
So needless to say, the kids weren’t real thrilled with this realistic slow story. The nephew outright hated it and gave it 1 star. It’s boring. The niece understood missing her mama. She misses her mama all the time. She didn’t like a story about waiting for mama. That made her feel a little anxious. She too didn’t like the story and gave it 1 star. This is for kids who appreciate a more nuanced and slower story.