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The topic for this week’s Denver Post haiku contest is road trips. The deadline is midnight Thursday (Denver time). Send your one stanza (5-7-5) haiku to lifestyle@denverpost.com or go online at www.denverpost.com/haiku to enter it or. The weekly winner will win a $25 gift certificate to the Tattered Cover bookstore.

(Thanks the Seattle Edible Book Festival blog for the photograph of Lauralee Smith’s Peep Haiku - it’s 5-7-5 - get it?)

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Last Fall a reader asked for book suggestions for a young relative who was being raised by an aunt and uncle. While there were a lot of books available about adopted children, there weren’t many books that related to parental loss and foster parenting. I had a few suggestions, but when I read Home Now by Lesley Beake (Charlesbridge children’s book publishers) I immediately thought about this reader and her request.

Devastated by the loss of her parents to AIDS, Sieta comes to accept her new home after meeting an orphaned baby elephant with memories like her own. While Home Now is specifically about the AIDS crisis in Africa (there is an endnote explaining the effects of AIDS on many African families) this book will help any child who’s been taken away from his or her parents due to drugs, neglect or illness, and placed with a relative or foster family.

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