Hello, Oakland County Reading Council!
It was a pleasure to present to the Oakland County Reading Association today with John Schumacher. If you were in attendance – thank you for coming!
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Click here to view the handout from the presentation.
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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In terms of the inclusion of “Shaking Things Up,” while the book has outstanding illustrations and educates readers about a number of important women, it has a significant flaw in its total exclusion of Jewish subjects:
https://www.hbook.com/2018/02/blogs/family-reading/a-missed-opportunity/
https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/262015/new-childrens-book-about-women-who-changed-the-world-leaves-out-the-jews