A must-have for any fashion lover, as the best component is the cultural history that accompanies each setting.
Slee and Kittler take readers down a multicultural catwalk that spans time, showcasing fashion from all over the world.
Depicting diverse models of all ages, genders, and colors, vibrant illustrations of events and settings act as the stage, each one presenting a select time period, location, notable designers, and the fashions that were popular during that time. “Dancing the Waltz” highlights “high-society” U.K. fashion in an elegant ballroom of dancers during the late 1800s. “Cycling” illustrates women wearing cycling bloomers and pedaling in dresses on their bicycles in the early 1900s, a time period when women wearing pants was still taboo in many places in the U.S. “Shimmying Down” takes place in a Harlem Renaissance dance hall where men dance in sharp long jackets, and women wear colorful, beaded flapper dresses. Along the 1930s French Riviera, men and women wear wide-leg trousers on the beach, “Soaking in the Sun.” On the streets of India, diverse fashion statements show the influence Bollywood film has had on Indian culture. Each page is a burst of illustrations that celebrate the impact and intersections of global fashion, with other scenes depicting 1920s Shanghai, 1950s Mexico, 1950s Saigon, and more. Scenes are aspirationally inclusive, depicting diverse people interacting in historical settings that might surprise readers.
A must-have for any fashion lover, as the best component is the cultural history that accompanies each setting. (Nonfiction. 8-14)Pub Date: April 2, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78603-195-2
Page Count: 64
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
Review Posted Online: Feb. 16, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2019
Though usually cast as the trickster, Coyote is more victim than victimizer, making this a nice complement to other Coyote...
Two republished tales by a Greco-Cherokee author feature both folkloric and modern elements as well as new illustrations.
One of the two has never been offered south of the (Canadian) border. In “Coyote Sings to the Moon,” the doo-wop hymn sung nightly by Old Woman and all the animals except tone-deaf Coyote isn’t enough to keep Moon from hiding out at the bottom of the lake—until she is finally driven forth by Coyote’s awful wailing. She has been trying to return to the lake ever since, but that piercing howl keeps her in the sky. In “Coyote’s New Suit” he is schooled in trickery by Raven, who convinces him to steal the pelts of all the other animals while they’re bathing, sends the bare animals to take clothes from the humans’ clothesline, and then sets the stage for a ruckus by suggesting that Coyote could make space in his overcrowded closet by having a yard sale. No violence ensues, but from then to now humans and animals have not spoken to one another. In Eggenschwiler’s monochrome scenes Coyote and the rest stand on hind legs and (when stripped bare) sport human limbs. Old Woman might be Native American; the only other completely human figure is a pale-skinned girl.
Though usually cast as the trickster, Coyote is more victim than victimizer, making this a nice complement to other Coyote tales. (Fiction. 9-11)Pub Date: Oct. 3, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-55498-833-4
Page Count: 56
Publisher: Groundwood
Review Posted Online: July 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 2017
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Gleefully providing ammunition for snarky readers eager to second-guess misguided beliefs and commands of grown-ups, Rondina dishes up the straight poop on dozens of topics from the cleanliness of a dog’s mouth and the relationship (none) between French fries and acne to whether an earwig could really crawl into your ear and eat your brains. Since she cites no readily checkable sources—support for assertions comes in the form of quotations from experts in various fields, but there is no bibliography—it’s hard to tell how accurate some of her claims are—it would be nice to have a citation to the JAMA studies that debunk the sugar-hyperactivity connection, for instance—and too often she provides only an unsatisfying “You Decide” instead of a clear “True” or “False.” Still, it all makes painless reading equally suitable for casual dipping or reading straight through, and Sylvester’s pen-and-ink spot art adds further light notes to every page. An extensive closing catalog of familiar “Parentisms”—“I’m not running a taxi service,” “Because I said so, that’s why,” etc.—adds a chuckle-inducing lagniappe. (Informational ephemera. 9-11)
Pub Date: Aug. 1, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-55453-454-8
Page Count: 96
Publisher: Kids Can
Review Posted Online: June 28, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 2010
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