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Smith, Icy

Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide

43 pp. | East West | January, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-9821675-8-8 $19.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Sopaul Nhem. A nine-year-old Cambodian boy describes being ordered by the Khmer Rouge on a forced march to a countryside concentration camp, where inhumanities surround him. This introduction to the Cambodian genocide will mesmerize young readers (at one point, the starving boy pulls off a frog's legs and eats them). The oil paintings, though uneven in quality, have a grim realism.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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