by Donna Kristine Manley ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 7, 2006
An intriguing guide that asserts that it’s never too early to start documenting one’s talents and achievements.
According to Manley’s debut collection, even 6-year-olds can begin shaping resumes for future success.
This guide, a recipient of the Mom’s Choice Award, aims to help children articulate their skills and talents by putting them in resume form. This will raise a child’s self-awareness and self-esteem, Manley writes, and ultimately set them on a path to prosperity. The 21 sample resumes, many by high schoolers, seem to reflect a pool of overachievers; for example, a 6-year-old includes the money he earned by completing household chores under the heading “Created Income,” and began studying German at age 3, which no doubt helped him to be admitted into the Gifted Children’s Association (listed under “Organizations”). In her introduction, Manley raises the excellent points that college and scholarship competition is fierce and that concisely summarizing achievements is a good way to get attention. What children do for fun can help them develop tools they’ll use later in life, and helping children to understand that is a positive benefit. But although Manley does note the widening gap between the haves and have-nots, the book almost exclusively showcases resumes of the haves. For example, such amenities as Marine Biology Research Camp and Investment Camp are likely out of reach for families in lower tax brackets, and half the sample resumes highlight moneymaking skills, with headings such as “Increased Revenue.” The three sample cover letters, intended to solicit financial support for career-building activities, have a corporate tone, as if they’re being sent to a mailing list rather than family or friends. The book also suggests that children should request compliments in writing, presumably so that they can add them to their growing list of testimonials. Parents committed to having their children climb the corporate ladder will likely benefit most from these tips. But even readers who don’t believe that children need written recommendations for properly taking out the trash may find value in teaching children how to promote their abilities.
An intriguing guide that asserts that it’s never too early to start documenting one’s talents and achievements.Pub Date: June 7, 2006
ISBN: 978-0977783502
Page Count: 99
Publisher: Christiana Press
Review Posted Online: March 26, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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by Ludwig Bemelmans ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 1955
An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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