From Huffington Post - Best Books of 2013
Year of the Jungle: Memories From the Home Front, by Suzanne Collins and James Proimos. This 40-page picture book, due to be released on September 10, 2013, has already received rave reviews from Time Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. It's an autobiographical account of a little girl named Suzy, the youngest of four children, whose father has gone to Vietnam. Suzy struggles to conceptualize what "war" means, and gradually senses the truth through the increasingly distressing tone of the postcards her father sends home. He eventually returns from Vietnam, very different, but, is some ways, still the same.
As her first picture book, the award-winning author of The Hunger Games series is sure to find success and a new following with her heartwarming story of love and family and reassurance.
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