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!
Click here to view the handout from the presentation.
About Travis JonkerTravis 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.
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