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A review by saidtheraina
President of the Whole Fifth Grade by Sherri Winston
4.0
Took this out to the elementary schools in May/June 2016.
Just wanna add my evidence - you know that myth that nobody wants to read a book with a black person on the cover? Totally totally wrong. I let the kids pick out which books I talk about, and this one was picked a lot. Often by mirror kids, but not always.
I started out by asking the kids what job they wanted to have when they grow up, and this was one of my favorite parts of outreach visits this season. I would go around the entire room of kids if I could. I love looking at them and imagining them as grown-up vets, or professional basketball players, or youtubers, or whatever.
I rushed reading and promoting this book so that I could feature it during a presidential election year.
I wasn't completely charmed by it, or sucked in - Brianna's drama is very kid-level, and as a grown-up, I saw logical fallacies a few times. I'm trying to decide if it's smart or lazy that the cupcake recipes included all require a cake-mix (they sound delicious anyway). But it is what it's trying to be. I like that it's one of the longest books I took out. It's didactic, yes, but pretty much always in a good way.
Just wanna add my evidence - you know that myth that nobody wants to read a book with a black person on the cover? Totally totally wrong. I let the kids pick out which books I talk about, and this one was picked a lot. Often by mirror kids, but not always.
I started out by asking the kids what job they wanted to have when they grow up, and this was one of my favorite parts of outreach visits this season. I would go around the entire room of kids if I could. I love looking at them and imagining them as grown-up vets, or professional basketball players, or youtubers, or whatever.
I rushed reading and promoting this book so that I could feature it during a presidential election year.
I wasn't completely charmed by it, or sucked in - Brianna's drama is very kid-level, and as a grown-up, I saw logical fallacies a few times. I'm trying to decide if it's smart or lazy that the cupcake recipes included all require a cake-mix (they sound delicious anyway). But it is what it's trying to be. I like that it's one of the longest books I took out. It's didactic, yes, but pretty much always in a good way.