Karen Kane
Autor/a de Charlie and Frog (Charlie and Frog, 1)
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: photo by Hayley C. Andrews
Sèrie
Obres de Karen Kane
Charlie & Frog a mystery 3 exemplars
Helping Out Community Volunteers Paperback 2 exemplars
Getting Along: Interactive Activities to Encourage Cooperation, Communication, and Respect (2001) 1 exemplars
Helping out: community volunteers 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Calliope: China's Qing Dynasty — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- female
- Llocs de residència
- Rochester, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Educació
- Vermont College of Fine Arts
- Biografia breu
- [from author's website]
Karen Kane grew up in Rochester, NY and became a sign language interpreter before becoming a writer. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, Karen is the author of the Edgar-award nominated book Charlie & Frog and its sequel The Boney Hand, Alphabuddies: G Is First! with Beth Bacon (July 2023), and Monster Hands with Jonaz McMillan (Spring 2024). She now lives in Washington, DC with her family, and loves books and chocolate in equal amounts. Okay, maybe she loves books just a tiny bit more—because she could never live without books!
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 14
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 235
- Popularitat
- #96,241
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 3
- ISBN
- 24
- Llengües
- 1
Charlie struggles to be heard. His parents traipse around the globe saving rare animals, leaving him in the care of his grandparents, who would rather watch TV than engage. That changes when he boards a rickety gondola to the Flying Hands Cafe, part of the Castle School for the Deaf. There he meets Frog, an energetic deaf girl intrigued by a mystery swirling around her favorite author. The solid narrative includes a zany cast of characters (none of whom are explicitly racialized), a fast-moving plot, and a low-stakes but suspenseful mystery. What makes this story stand out is the depiction of Deaf culture and community, likely drawn from the author’s education and work as an interpreter. Uninformed readers will learn some signs and letters of the alphabet, both from the writing and the finely detailed illustrations heading each chapter, as well as absorbing information about ASL and Deaf etiquette. (For example, Charlie’s grandmother asks if he and Frog are sweethearts; when Frog asks what Grandma said, the embarrassed Charlie “almost wrote ‘never mind’ before he realized how rude that would be. Frog had a right to know.”) Deaf readers, as well as hearing children with deaf family members and others enmeshed in Deaf community, will see familiar cultural markers, such as the “Deaf can” motto and the school’s importance in the local community.
An enjoyable read that artfully mixes adventure, heart, and cultural competence. (Mystery. 7-12)
-Kirkus Review… (més)