Jonah Winter
Autor/a de Frida
Sobre l'autor
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)
Crèdit de la imatge: Uncredited photo found at Scholastic.com
Sèrie
Obres de Jonah Winter
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition) (2009) 352 exemplars
Jazz Age Josephine: Dancer, singer--who's that, who? Why, that's MISS Josephine Baker, to you! (2012) 173 exemplars
The Founding Fathers!: Those Horse-Ridin', Fiddle-Playin', Book-Readin', Gun-Totin' Gentlemen Who… (2015) 52 exemplars
Book Reports 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Professions
- author
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
4th Grade Books (2)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 48
- Membres
- 5,008
- Popularitat
- #5,004
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 434
- ISBN
- 203
- Llengües
- 5
In the past I've enjoyed some nonfiction picture books by Jonah Winter, but this one was just odd to me. Winter appears to be going for this jocular, howdy-do tone throughout the book with folksy words like "pardner" and dropping the "g" in "-ing" verbs (as seen in the subtitle). The watercolor illustrations are similarly irreverent. I guess this was all designed to whet the appetite of some kids to get them to delve deeper into history, but there was so little of substance about each featured person that it felt almost useless to read this because certain aspects of their lives were merely alluded to with no real information given.
A weird note about the stats was that they included things like height, wealth, etc. but then also mentioned "slaves owned" before noting the founders' stance on slavery. I feel like the point was to say how the founders' beliefs often clashed with their actions, but it came across as a very sterile way to talk about humans being forced into horrible servitude for their entire lives. The stats would literally go from land owned to cattle owned to slaves owned as though objects, not people, were being discussed. Even in the back matter, slavery is mentioned as an "emotional topic" for founding fathers since some were "morally opposed" but "slaves were a crucial part of the American economy." I know that slavery was not the focus on the book so it wasn't necessarily going to be discussed in detail, but this was handled in a very peculiar way that didn't address the human angle.
On the flip side, one thing fun about the stats was that every featured person's feelings toward the country of France were included, which was bizarre but at least entertaining. Overall though, this book felt like a swing and a miss.… (més)