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Imogen
The refrain “something was missing” drives Elizabeth Partridge’s narrative about her grandmother, photographer Imogen Cunningham, until Imogen discovers photography, specifically the ability to develop her own film — and then, “Nothing was missing.” The Caldecott criteria that first comes to mind for Imogen is Yuko Shimizu’s “appropriateness of style of illustration to the story, theme, or concept.”...
Review of Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham
Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Yuko Shimizu Primary, Intermediate Viking 40 pp. 8/25 9781984835185 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781984835208 $10.99 Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was born into a large, loving family in the Pacific Northwest at the tail end of the nineteenth century. As...
Golden Gate
A new book by Elizabeth Partridge is always a cause for celebration. I taught her Marching for Freedom for many years at my school, and her books about photographer Dorothea Lange (her godmother) are beautiful, full of archival photographs. When I got wind that Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge...
Review of Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Ellen Heck Primary, Intermediate Chronicle 56 pp. 10/24 9781452135144 $19.99 “Cold winter winds rattle your window and the blast of the foghorn weaves into your morning dreams, warning ships away from the rocky cliffs behind you.” In a second-person...
Reviews of the 2023 Sibert Award Winners
Winner Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Lauren Tamaki Intermediate, Middle School Chronicle 132 pp. g 10/22 978-1-4521-6510-3 $21.99 Numerous books have been written about the forced removal and imprisonment of Japanese Americans...
Review of Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Lauren Tamaki Intermediate, Middle School Chronicle 132 pp. g 10/22 978-1-4521-6510-3 $21.99 Numerous books have been written about the forced removal and imprisonment of Japanese Americans during...
Five questions for Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki
In Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration (Chronicle, 10–14 years), author Elizabeth Partridge and illustrator Lauren Tamaki focus on the Manzanar War Relocation Center and three famous photographers’ work. Accessible main text and primary-source quotes combined with remarkably...
Review of Parks for the People: How Frederick Law Olmsted Designed America
Parks for the People: How Frederick Law Olmsted Designed America by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Becca Stadtlander Primary, Intermediate Viking 40 pp. g 3/22 978-1-9848-3515-4 $17.99 Beginning with a title that introduces both Frederick Law Olmsted’s work and the book’s main idea, Partridge (Boots on the Ground, rev. 3/18) gives...
Writing as an Act of Defiance
As the Vietnam War escalated in the late 1960s I marched and protested, raged and wept for our country and Vietnam. Fifty years later, we are living through another extraordinary, terrifying time. We’re being stalked by a pandemic, living under political strong-arming, in a deeply divided country. Our economy teeters...
The Book That Changed My Life: A Couple of Misfits
It’s obvious from the very beginning of Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park that the two of them are a couple of misfits. I couldn’t imagine how their worlds would overlap, much less merge, and I bet Eleanor and Park didn’t either. From being weird, misfitty friends, they gradually start to...
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