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From: Christine Hill <chill>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 18:36:28 -0500
My non-fiction favorites for the year have been:
Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America by Penny Colman- She presents such lively testimony with such interesting detail with such a panoramic, truly multicultural sweep and great archival illustrations.
Rookie: Tamika Whitmore's First Year in the WNBA by Joan Anderson- A model sports biography. Combines Whitmore's voice with the author's well thought out perspective and structure, action packed photos and a lesser-known subject.
Forging Freedom by Strobe Talbott- Like so many Holocaust rescue stories, this is inherently exicting and moving, but it is Talbott's illustrations that make this stand out. They combine paintings with collage and photos and intertwine with the text in a variety of ways, double page, single page, spot illustrations, borders; they also combine straight documentary with dreamlike (or nightmarish) elements. A painting of Hitler as an octopus with barbed wire tentacles spreading over Europe was particularly chilling. There is a fair amount of dialogue which may be invented, but the author is a close friend of Jaap Penraat (the subject) and it may be factual, or close to it. I wish there had been author's note to make this clear. Christine M. Hill Willingboro Public Library One Salem Road Willingboro, NJ 08046 chill at willingboro.org My new book! Ten Terrific Authors for Teens, Enslow, 2000
Received on Tue 02 Jan 2001 05:36:28 PM CST
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 18:36:28 -0500
My non-fiction favorites for the year have been:
Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America by Penny Colman- She presents such lively testimony with such interesting detail with such a panoramic, truly multicultural sweep and great archival illustrations.
Rookie: Tamika Whitmore's First Year in the WNBA by Joan Anderson- A model sports biography. Combines Whitmore's voice with the author's well thought out perspective and structure, action packed photos and a lesser-known subject.
Forging Freedom by Strobe Talbott- Like so many Holocaust rescue stories, this is inherently exicting and moving, but it is Talbott's illustrations that make this stand out. They combine paintings with collage and photos and intertwine with the text in a variety of ways, double page, single page, spot illustrations, borders; they also combine straight documentary with dreamlike (or nightmarish) elements. A painting of Hitler as an octopus with barbed wire tentacles spreading over Europe was particularly chilling. There is a fair amount of dialogue which may be invented, but the author is a close friend of Jaap Penraat (the subject) and it may be factual, or close to it. I wish there had been author's note to make this clear. Christine M. Hill Willingboro Public Library One Salem Road Willingboro, NJ 08046 chill at willingboro.org My new book! Ten Terrific Authors for Teens, Enslow, 2000
Received on Tue 02 Jan 2001 05:36:28 PM CST
