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librarybonanza 's review for:
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
by Carole Boston Weatherford
Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
Nonfiction: Bio
Art: Photography
A brief biography on an iconic photographer with simple--but heavy--text that it is hard to pin down the audience--maybe early readers? This is unfortunate because detail is sparse, leaving out interesting information like what Gordon's American Gothic is parodying. The artwork is wonderful but it doesn't make up for the confusing audience, the lack of biography, and a big flub regarding the death of Gordon's mother. In the first few pages, Weatherford writes that Gordon is 14 when his mother dies but in the supplementary material, Weatherford writes that Gordon is 15. Just to clear the waters, Gordon was 14 when she died.
Nonfiction: Bio
Art: Photography
A brief biography on an iconic photographer with simple--but heavy--text that it is hard to pin down the audience--maybe early readers? This is unfortunate because detail is sparse, leaving out interesting information like what Gordon's American Gothic is parodying. The artwork is wonderful but it doesn't make up for the confusing audience, the lack of biography, and a big flub regarding the death of Gordon's mother. In the first few pages, Weatherford writes that Gordon is 14 when his mother dies but in the supplementary material, Weatherford writes that Gordon is 15. Just to clear the waters, Gordon was 14 when she died.