A Taste of Freedom: Gandhi and the Great Salt March Hardcover – February 11, 2014

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This is an excellent read-aloud story appreciated by a wide range of ages. I read it with K-5 and all of them were engrossed. Any time I find a book that EVERYONE sits still for, I count it a win.Since I read this in January, we were able to discuss Gandhi's influence on Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr. We discussed how this story was told in first person as a family history saga . With the older students we were able to discuss the similarity between the Salt March and the Boston Tea Party. We looked up Aslali and Dandi and found the distance walked and compared that to how far our students had walked in the most recent walk-a-thon. I will say that the wording and language is a bit clumsy at times and would have benefited from a stronger editor, but, all in all, this was just an excellent book to share with my classes

Beautiful account told through the eyes of a child at the Salt March. The author's use of descriptive language created a lovely narrative of an important historical event, an event that most Americans (including myself!) are not familiar.