Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Deborah K. Frontiera’s Living on Sisu: The 1913 Union Copper Strike Tragedy offers a candid view of a violent strike against the mining companies in Houghton and Keweenaw counties of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.) Twelve-year-old Emma Niemi narrated the story about her family’s participation in the strike…
Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Erin Brynes Bailey’s “The Stormy Kromer Kitten” was a delightful tale about a calico cat, a train engineer and a creative woman. The story took place at Kaakauna, Wisconsin, during the snowy winter of 1903. A historical fiction children’s book in which Ida and George Kromer were…
Review by Deborah K Frontiera The Stormy Kromer Kitten by Erin Byrnes Bailey is a historical fiction picture book tells how the Stormy Kromer caps might have come to be. Set in 1903, George and Ida Kromer came up with an idea for a warm hat that would not blow…
