Jonah Winter
Autor(a) de Frida
About the Author
Children's author and illustrator Jonah Winter was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1962. He has created many popular books, including works about baseball and biographies of famous individuals including Frida Kahlo, Roberto Clemente, and Barack Obama. (Bowker Author Biography)
Image credit: Uncredited photo found at Scholastic.com
Séries
Obras por Jonah Winter
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition) (2009) 363 exemplares
Jazz Age Josephine: Dancer, singer--who's that, who? Why, that's MISS Josephine Baker, to you! (2012) 178 exemplares
The Founding Fathers!: Those Horse-Ridin', Fiddle-Playin', Book-Readin', Gun-Totin' Gentlemen Who… (2015) 52 exemplares
Book Reports 1 exemplar
Diego by Jonah Winter (2007-01-09) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Number 13, The Anne Waldman Issue — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Ocupações
- author
Membros
Críticas
Allow me to pluck out some lines from this book that gave me pause:
"...it is important to remember that not all Islamic people are violent." (What if he said, "It is important to remember that not all Christians are racist"?)
"The world's original peaceful hero is...Jesus." (Really?)
"[before Jesus:] everyone thought you were supposed to hate and fight your enemies." (Again, really?)
"Firemen...do their job with no hope of ever being famous. For this reason, they are perhaps the most selfless of all peaceful heroes." (Yes, for we know most selfless people are really just seeking fame.)
Overall, this book is actually very nice, but it might be hard for young readers to separate its facts from the author's opinions and beliefs. That said, if you know you're getting into, it's not bad. I appreciated the diversity of the heroes, though it's very Jesus-centric in the beginning.… (mais)
"...it is important to remember that not all Islamic people are violent." (What if he said, "It is important to remember that not all Christians are racist"?)
"The world's original peaceful hero is...Jesus." (Really?)
"[before Jesus:] everyone thought you were supposed to hate and fight your enemies." (Again, really?)
"Firemen...do their job with no hope of ever being famous. For this reason, they are perhaps the most selfless of all peaceful heroes." (Yes, for we know most selfless people are really just seeking fame.)
Overall, this book is actually very nice, but it might be hard for young readers to separate its facts from the author's opinions and beliefs. That said, if you know you're getting into, it's not bad. I appreciated the diversity of the heroes, though it's very Jesus-centric in the beginning.… (mais)
First of all, really cool endpapers. Second of all, very funny telling, but possibly confusing for young kids because there's fact mixed in with silliness and it's not entirely clear which is which sometimes.
Mother Jones would approve of the spunk in this telling of children's advocacy work for child labor laws.
Listas
4th Grade Books (2)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 49
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 5,160
- Popularidade
- #4,820
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 438
- ISBN
- 204
- Línguas
- 5
It's a good story, though. I remember the first time I thought hard about where all of our garbage goes. I imagined that in my lifetime the whole world would be one big garbage dump. Here's hoping I was just a dramatic child.