Title: An excellent autobiography and teaching tool
Product review: Told in a time-line format, this beautifully illustrated book showcases the writing voice of Isabel Allende. A single page/event can be used to explain events from a historical perspective, or several pages together can explain how life experiences shaped the author's ideas for writing. The book inspires endless opportunities for student writing: creating a time line of her experiences, mirroring that time line with their own, "exploding the moment" and having students write about one idea on their time line, writing from the points of view of any of the book's characters, etc. More than all this, the book demonstrates that a young girl with an unusual, even traumatic childhood has a wonderful story to tell to the world - an important message for kids who feel they have no valid story to tell.
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