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Renée Watson

Autor(a) de Piecing Me Together

26+ Works 4,364 Membros 191 Críticas 1 Favorited

About the Author

Inclui os nomes: Renée Watson, Renée Watson

Séries

Obras por Renée Watson

Piecing Me Together (2017) 1,198 exemplares
Ways to Make Sunshine (2020) 473 exemplares
Watch Us Rise (2019) 408 exemplares
This Side of Home (2015) 317 exemplares
Betty Before X (2018) 271 exemplares
Some Places More Than Others (2019) 260 exemplares
Ways to Grow Love (2021) 225 exemplares
Love Is a Revolution (2021) 212 exemplares
What Momma Left Me (2010) 144 exemplares
A Place Where Hurricanes Happen (2010) 107 exemplares
Maya’s Song (2022) 35 exemplares
Ways to Share Joy (2022) 34 exemplares
Ways to Build Dreams (2023) 15 exemplares

Associated Works

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America (2019) — Contribuidor — 529 exemplares
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (2018) — Contribuidor — 378 exemplares
The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love, and Truth (2020) — Contribuidor — 178 exemplares
The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce (2019) — Contribuidor — 106 exemplares
Every Body Shines: Sixteen Stories about Living Fabulously Fat (2021) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Watson, Renée
Data de nascimento
1978-07-29
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Paterson, New Jersey, USA

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Críticas

Born on the Water is a beautiful book! The illustrations capture the content, tone, and emotions of the poetry so well. I thought the introduction to slavery and its trauma is honest, but sensitive to young readers. The accurate portrayal of the West African societies from which slaves were kidnapped gives all young readers, but especially young African American readers, an important context for those captured into slavery and the cultural influences seen among enslaved people in the United States and their descendants. This book also celebrates the determination, strength, and resilience of African Americans to create new lives out of such tragedy. Both authors note that they want African American readers to come away empowered and to reflect about their roots -- reading this book is a wonderful way to start such reflection.

I also see this book as important resource for teachers to use in the classroom, offering all students to reflect on the consequences of slavery in the United States, Black resistance and civil rights, and what it means to call oneself "American".
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AnnesLibrary | 22 outras críticas | Jan 28, 2024 |
I liked this book, although I did skim through the middle. It is not a dramatic feeling book, although it could have been, based on the plot points. Good for teens who like realistic fiction with no love drama.
 
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mslibrarynerd | 56 outras críticas | Jan 13, 2024 |
This book has an old fashioned, well manned protagonist that feels refreshing and simple and good. Were it not for the descriptions of lynchings and police murders, this book would be easy to fit on a list of books for sheltered children. It is full of the religious optimism of its adolescent main character Betty. the writing was very good, full of rich descriptive passages.
 
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mslibrarynerd | 13 outras críticas | Jan 13, 2024 |
I had not heard of this book until my library added it to their digital collection. I'm so glad I stumbled across it! The audiobook was read beautifully by the author herself, and the writing was so poetic.
 
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Dances_with_Words | 56 outras críticas | Jan 6, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
26
Also by
7
Membros
4,364
Popularidade
#5,750
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
191
ISBN
131
Línguas
2
Marcado como favorito
1

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