Review of
They
Were Strong and Good, by Robert Lawson
Five out of five stars
This book is
based on the impressions that Lawson received of his parents and grandparents
when he was a little boy. He starts with his grandparents on both sides and then
moves to his parents. The book was published in 1940 and at a time when the
author was most likely old. For he mentions that his father’s family owned a
slave and his father was twelve at the start of the American Civil War.
The structure of
the book is that there is a small amount of explanatory text on the left and a
full-page associated illustration on the right. This is the kind of book that
all adults would like to write, an autobiography of their immediate ancestors
viewed through their eyes. One could only hope to do as good a job at that task
as Lawson does in his writing and illustrating.
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