Sun and Spoon

I remember reading this book in elementary school right after my grandfather died. I was really close to my grandfather and reading this book helped me a lot during my grief. This book taught me that memories of a loved one never dies

Just what I was looking for to help a young bit deal with the loss of his beloved grandmother

Why you may ask it had 3 CHAPTERS THAT WERE USLESS and a lot of things that don't make SCENE

Excellent book. My 7 year old and I enjoyed reading this together and discussing. The story can spark a great discussion regarding life experiences.

Good for when a grandparent passes away. Third to fifth graders should read. A little sad but not a tear jerker

Character descriptions of the children, the adults and even the objects are clear and made me imagine each one. I identified with the loss of a loved person and I, too, wear a necklace from my mom.The family members are each unique and I found I liked each one for the place they held in the group. If every family had reactions and love for the members like the family in Kevin Henkes,SUN AND SPOON, the children and the adults alike will all weather life better for the belonging to the family group.

I am a sap. I admit it. I get weepy when one of those touching television commercials comes on. Disney movies can get me too. Those are visual images, though. Books have never gotten to me in the same way. I sold books for six years and am now a Children's Librarian...so I read and have always read A LOT. Only two books have ever made me cry.This one made me weep. It is a thing of beauty. The prose is spare and poetic. The characters breathe from their first appearance. The story is so real, so well handled. I don't think anyone could read this short novel and come away unaffected. There is a wonderful network of symbols at work in this book...but you don't have to analize them in order to enjoy meeting Spoon and his family...to feel the depth of his relationship with both his grandparents...and glimpse with him the depth of his grandparent's relationship with each other. Excellent reading for any age reader!

Sun and Spoon is a really good book for 7 to 19 year olds to enjoy alot. Sun and Spoon is a story, where their grandmother dies, and a boy named Spoon that's looking for something of hers to keep to remember her by. Sun and Spoon is about a sister and brother fighting but also how they make again. It's about stealing a deck of sun cards that belong to his grandmother. But giving them back after awhile. It's about lieing to his grandfather about the deck of cards. It's about collecting stuff after a nice stormy rain fall. Sun and Spoon is about giving people things to remeber somebody by. It's about helping famliy out and spening time with them evey day. So if you like to read books about family then you should get Sun and Spoon. It's a really, really good book to read, especialy at a young age.