Man in the Mirror
I have a thing for doppelgängers. I get way more entertainment than I should when someone tells me I look like, say, Perfect Strangers actor Bronson Pinchot:
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Or, perhaps, Moroccan distance runner Hicham El Guerrouj:
(I wrote this post about how kids notice this one because of The Guiness Book of Records)
Or even Costa Rican national team soccer player Bryan Ruiz:
Hell, I even tried to find doppelgängers for children’s lit authors and illustrators for Children’s Literature, The Movie:
I think people love it when someone comes up to them and tells them they look like someone else. (for comparison, here’s me – I’m on the left)
Yesterday, I learned this love of doppelgängery runs in the family when may daughter noticed that the green sweater wearing, 5 o’clock shadow sporting, Cat Facts book grabbing librarian from her reading workbook looked familiar:
(illustrations by Apryl Stott)
I can’t disagree.
Who do people say you look like?
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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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When I was 16, I shelved books at the public library for extra cash. We had kind of a Casanova patron who was around my age that would come in and flirt with all of the ladies. He always told me that I looked like Alex Mack (Larisa Oleynik). After he told me for the first time, I snuck over to the children’s section and was looking at the cover of one of the Alex Mack chapter books to see if he was right. He, of course, caught me.
Moroccan distance runner, yep!