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barefootbetsy's review
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Fantastic book! Very readable and accessible, clear explanations, I loved that he used rabbits and badgers as examples instead of using the real life categories of people.
elizabethlk's review
3.0
An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language covers a variety of ways that language can be used to manipulate perceptions, especially by politicians and the media. It does a pretty decent job of covering a mixture of what happens in the media, and the illustrations definitely help make things clearer. I do wish there were more illustrations, as I feel like it was a bit light on them for a book that says it's illustrated in the title (one of the chapters had no illustrations at all, but as I read an advanced readers' copy, I wonder if perhaps this was different in the final edition). Also, while I understand that many of the real-world stories were changed to reflect woodland characters instead of the real world to prevent reader bias from intruding, I felt a bit weird about how some of these stories were presented.
I don't think it was as good as An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, but they're both still worth the read to help become more media literate and avoid falling into the traps that both books speak of. An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language is a bit of a mixed bag, but ultimately it's still a good educational resource.
I don't think it was as good as An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, but they're both still worth the read to help become more media literate and avoid falling into the traps that both books speak of. An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language is a bit of a mixed bag, but ultimately it's still a good educational resource.
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