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Tomi Ungerer «Mr. Tall and Mr. Small»

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Many early childhood squabbles are the result of a discontent with relative size and weight and the verse of Mr. Tall and Mr. Small plays to this. At first, the giraffe and the mouse tease each other in defensive tones about their directly opposite heights and habits. A forest fire, catches them in the middle of a hassle and forces a cooperation to which each contributes — the giraffe can see over things and the mouse can put his ear to the ground and hear what they need to know. Together they effect an escape. The rhyme is pleasant and their mutual nagging is nicely ridiculous so that the point of it all is never bluntly made. Ungerer’s illustrations are his typical cartoons, big, uncluttered and in soft, dark colors touched with red.

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Katherine Milhous «The egg tree»

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«The Egg Tree» is a 1950 book by Katherine Milhous that won the 1951 Caldecott Medal, based on the author’s family tradition. It tells the classic tale of a Pennsylvania Dutch Easter, with its main characters being Katy and Carl. One day, near Easter, they look for Easter eggs and found eggs that their grandmother had painted on a tree. They were interested, so they ask their grandmother about the eggs. They eventually create one, and it becomes a big success the next Easter. The book «The egg tree» is an illustrated book, with the image of a rooster blowing a horn standing on an decorated Easter egg on the cover of the book. Bright colors yellow in contrast with green. The illustration goes on through the pages with a Pennsylvania Dutch traditions of art that can be considered eye pleasing and easy to read.

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Robert Lawson «They Were Strong and Good»

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«They Were Strong and Good» is a children’s nonfiction book written and illustrated by Robert Lawson, who won the 1941 Caldecott Medal for excellence in illustration of an American children’s picture book. It tells the story of Lawson’s family: where they came from, how they met, what they did, where they lived. «None of them,» Lawson says in the preface, speaking of his ancestors, «were great or famous, but they were strong and good.» The original 1940 text has been revised to alter two controversial sections. One that refers to American Indians as «tame», and the other «colored boy» is replaced with «Negro slave». The accompanying pictures remain original.

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Stacy Innerst «Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality»

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To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and ’40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman’s place was in the home. Regardless, she went to Cornell University, where men outnumbered women four to one. There, she met her husband, Martin Ginsburg, and found her calling as a lawyer. Despite discrimination against Jews, females, and working mothers, Ginsburg went on to become Columbia Law School’s first tenured female professor, a judge for the US Court of Appeals, and finally, a Supreme Court Justice.

Structured as a court case in which the reader is presented with evidence of the injustice that Ginsburg faced, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the true story of how one of America’s most «notorious» women bravely persevered to become the remarkable symbol of justice she is today.