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Jonah Winter

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49 obres 5,135 Membres 438 Ressenyes

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)

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Obres de Jonah Winter

Frida (2002) 785 exemplars
Here Comes the Garbage Barge! (2010) 292 exemplars
Barack (2008) 232 exemplars
Dizzy (2006) 188 exemplars
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! (2009) 187 exemplars
Just Behave, Pablo Picasso! (2012) 158 exemplars
Paul Revere and the Bell Ringers (2003) 130 exemplars
You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! (1800) 128 exemplars
JFK (2013) 115 exemplars
The Secret Project (2017) 91 exemplars
Peaceful Heroes (2009) 79 exemplars
The Sad Little Fact (2019) 78 exemplars
Secret World Of Hildegard (2007) 74 exemplars
Steel Town (2008) 74 exemplars
Thurgood (2019) 71 exemplars
Elvis Is King! (2019) 64 exemplars
Hillary (2016) 50 exemplars
Oil (2020) 49 exemplars
Wild Women of the Wild West (2011) 43 exemplars
Joltin' Joe DiMaggio (2014) 17 exemplars
The Snow Man: A True Story (2023) 8 exemplars
Maine: Poems (2002) 7 exemplars
Banned Book (2023) 7 exemplars
Amnesia (2004) 5 exemplars
Book Reports 1 exemplars

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Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Llocs de residència
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Professions
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I didn't particularly like the use of nonstandard spelling to convey the accents of the characters. Sometimes it's done well, but here it felt hammy.

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.
 
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LibrarianDest | Hi ha 53 ressenyes més | Jan 3, 2024 |
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.
… (més)
 
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LibrarianDest | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Jan 3, 2024 |
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.
 
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LibrarianDest | Hi ha 10 ressenyes més | Jan 3, 2024 |
Mother Jones would approve of the spunk in this telling of children's advocacy work for child labor laws.
 
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sloth852 | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Jan 2, 2024 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
49
Membres
5,135
Popularitat
#4,854
Valoració
4.0
Ressenyes
438
ISBN
204
Llengües
5

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