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Jonah Winter

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49 Works 5,122 Membros 438 Reviews

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)

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Séries

Obras de Jonah Winter

Frida (2002) 784 cópias
Here Comes the Garbage Barge! (2010) 292 cópias
Barack (2008) 231 cópias
Dizzy (2006) 188 cópias
Just Behave, Pablo Picasso! (2012) 158 cópias
JFK (2013) 114 cópias
The Secret Project (2017) 90 cópias
Peaceful Heroes (2009) 79 cópias
The Sad Little Fact (2019) 78 cópias
Secret World Of Hildegard (2007) 74 cópias
Steel Town (2008) 74 cópias
Thurgood (2019) 69 cópias
Elvis Is King! (2019) 64 cópias
Hillary (2016) 50 cópias
Oil (2020) 49 cópias
Wild Women of the Wild West (2011) 43 cópias
Joltin' Joe DiMaggio (2014) 17 cópias
The Snow Man: A True Story (2023) 7 cópias
Maine: Poems (2002) 7 cópias
Banned Book (2023) 6 cópias
Amnesia (2004) 5 cópias
Book Reports 1 exemplar(es)

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Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Ocupação
author

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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 | outras 53 resenhas | 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.
… (mais)
 
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LibrarianDest | outras 5 resenhas | 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 | outras 10 resenhas | 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 | outras 2 resenhas | Jan 2, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
49
Membros
5,122
Popularidade
#4,869
Avaliação
4.0
Resenhas
438
ISBNs
204
Idiomas
5

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