Best children biographies according to redditors
We found 74 Reddit comments discussing the best children biographies. We ranked the 42 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 74 Reddit comments discussing the best children biographies. We ranked the 42 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
There are multiple Hillary Clinton children's books out there.
https://www.amazon.com/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Some-Girls/dp/0062381229
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1481451138/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GW9509TDAM5SK320D9SC
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0553533886/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=KX8VQCXPV626F6P6Z658
These actually are worse than the cover suggests (which is already pretty bad). I remember them even comparing Hillary to huge rulers and civil rights leaders like Queen Elizabeth, Martin Luther King, and even Ghandi.
It was total propaganda and the fact they are directed at little kids horrified me
You have to consider that racism isn't just the element of disliking someone and thinking their race is better.
In the U.S. specifically, there has been systematic, institutionalized racism. Basically, one group of people (white Europeans) set up society in a way that limits people of color and has traditionally kept them out of the areas that whites feel they dominate. This was done for many reasons, in part because of the idea that being European ancestry made someone more civilized, smarter, and better at [xyz reason].
"Racism" doesn't come from all sides - prejudice does. Racism is the long-term plot for people of color to be kept out of areas that give huge benefits to whites. It's having white criminals getting less severe sentences than black criminals. It's black women being more likely to die during childbirth than white women. It's black children in school being more likely to be punished, or called problem students than white children.
Race and Crime
Race and Pregnancy
Race and School Punishments
Race Bias in Teachers
Race Bias in Medicine
Books:
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
She Stood for Freedom
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
Separate Is Never Equal
Please do haha! They're both on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/G-Golazo-Ultimate-Soccer-Alphabet/dp/162937671X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548737895&sr=8-1&keywords=g+golazo
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1629375888/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
http://www.amazon.ca/Confessions-Guidette-Nicole-Snooki-Polizzi-ebook/dp/B004XVQQ64/
http://www.amazon.ca/My-Crazy-Beautiful-Life-Ke/dp/1476704163
http://www.amazon.ca/Britney-Spears-Heart/dp/0609807013
http://www.amazon.ca/Influence-Mary-Kate-Olsen/dp/159514210X
http://www.amazon.ca/Miles-Go-Miley-Cyrus/dp/1423119924/
http://www.amazon.ca/Kardashian-Konfidential-Kim/dp/0312628072/
http://www.amazon.ca/sTORI-Telling-Tori-Spelling/dp/1416587004/
http://www.amazon.ca/Prefer-Mine-Dente-Alley-Kirstie/dp/B00CB242P4/
Everyone has "written" a book.
Shout-out to this click-bait list for doing the research for me: http://www.buzzsugar.com/Celebrity-Women-Memoirs-24030893#photo-24033620
Oh jeez https://www.amazon.com/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Some-Girls/dp/0062381229
Quote from Kevin Kernan's Slam Duncan
Hillary Clinton: Some Girls are Born to Lead
It Takes a Village: Picture Book by Hillary Rodham Clinton
A Girl Named Hillary: The True Story of Hillary Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight
Hillary Clinton: The Life of a Leader
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
I Look Up To... Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Elizabeth Warren: Nevertheless, She Persisted
And there are a lot more where those came from. There were a lot of politician worshiping children's books I chose not to include because my list was already pretty long.
Anything by Petter Hessler (Country Driving, The Oracle Bones) or James Fallows (China Airborne, Postcards from Tomorrow Square).
Both were long-time journalists posted in the country, Fallows for The Atlantic, and Hessler for New Yorker/Nat Geo, I think, and both do an excellent job of simultaneously capturing the political, commerical, and human sides of the transitions currently wracking China.
Additionally, I'm a big proponent of learning a country's history in order to understand its culture. Wolfram Eberhard's History of China, is excellent, comprehensive, and free on Kindle. I recommend it.
http://www.amazon.com/History-China-Wolfram-Eberhard-ebook/dp/B0084991IG/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419117875&sr=1-1&keywords=chinese+history
Iirc the author posted it on here this summer. I typed in 'barca alphabet book' and found it:
https://www.amazon.com/G-Golazo-Ultimate-Soccer-Alphabet/dp/162937671X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548737895&sr=8-1&keywords=g+golazo
http://www.amazon.com/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Some-Girls/dp/0062381229
http://www.amazon.com/I-Am-12-Lebron-James/dp/054567350X
The first few are Chahta but there are various tribes depicted, some available in both English and the given tribal language!
Some tribes have lists online or books available in their online stores, as well, so if you’re looking for anything specific you might try that.
HRC: Some Girls are born to lead (read: some girls are born into leadership)
I don't know how that title got past any copy editor with a head on their shoulders.
If you have small children, get the kid's book!
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Walked-Between-Towers/dp/031236878X
Lets not forget "it's her turn" or even a children's book like this
https://www.amazon.com/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Some-Girls/dp/0062381229
Try anything by Mary Roach. Her nonfiction books cover a variety of science topics and are interspersed with her stories about traveling to the studied locations and misadventures with equipment like space toilets.
If you want to combine nonfiction, travel, and graphic novels, I'd heartily recommend Primates, which just came out. It's about Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, and Birute Galdikas (who is always forgotten), arguably the most influential great ape researchers of all time.
Nope, you're just overly defensive towards the obvious. Just deal with it, Chelsea will be pushed upon us and sold to us.
You can buy the book on Amazon
Albert Einstein and His Inflatable Universe
Some time ago, I bought this for my little sister and now she worships Einstein. The illustrations by Phillip Reeve (of Mortal Engines fame) as well as the humorous tone of the book makes it perfect for a 10 yr old. Go give it a try!
That's awesome!!! This book about Hillary looks sooooo cute!
They've been subjected to constant propaganda about the woman for years now. You know, I even found a fucking children's book dedicated to her. Here it is: Some girls are born to lead PUKE. Nobody's born it lead, you've got to earn it.
As a side note, I was just looking at her wikipedia page today and do you know there's ZERO mention of her 6 years on the board of directors at WalMart? That's kind of a huge deal, yet her heavily guarded wikipedia page makes no mention of it. Hmm, wonder why
> Who else could treat winning an election as an excuse to play the constant angry underdog/victim narrative so much?
Well, truthfully, Hilary. They literally wrote books about her and how she was an underdog her entire life "fighting the good fight." I'm not arguing whether that was true or not, just answering your question of who else plays the underdog narrative.
https://www.amazon.com/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Some-Girls/dp/0062381229
A couple ape examples off the top of my head: the librarian orangutan in The Color of Magic and the various chimeras in Daughter of Smoke and Bone. And Planet of the Apes, of course.
If you're going to use nonhumans, I would much rather see them acting like nonhumans. If you want a quick read to pick up some ape behaviors, check out the graphic novel Primates (science, not fantasy).
"He was a baboon" totally makes sense, but you could also twist it so that characters were calling him that when he's another species and they're just calling attention to whatever stereotypical traits they think baboons have.
> Is that what they're making 4th graders do book reports on nowadays? That's pretty astounding. In 4th grade I was lucky if I could understand White Fang.
Nah, you're just an imbecile who thinks that just because something happened for you that it must mean the entire nation is like that.
But yes. /u/poiumty just learned how to read in 4th grade, so other kids around the country must be just as uneducated as him.
If you're talking specifically post-Qin, there are huge variations in levels of continuity (or noncontinuity) between subsequent dynasties. I'm not knowledgeable enough first-hand to comment in detail on the subject, but I'm reading Wolfram Eberhard's A History of China, which is available for free on Kindle. Certainly around the Three Kingdoms (right after Han) and then around the Northern and Southern Kingdoms (right after Jin, before Sui) the country had fragmented into largely separate landed polities vying for control. The Three Kingdoms fragmentation lasted six decades; the North-South Kingdoms lasted over a century and a half. These are significant enough that I would consider "Qina" as a state to have broken up during those times, and thus the concept of unbroken imperial rule from Qinshihuang to be untenable.
In addition, there was the constant external pressure by various non-landed ethnic groups, which themselves did not exist in a state of unchanging stasis, but also intermarried, supported, betrayed, opposed, and otherwise interacted with the people of the post-Qin kingdoms. Eberhard's recounts a dizzying array of peripheral clans, muting from one to the next, sometimes seizing power and marrying into the settled families and kingdoms. Xiongnu, Huns, Turkics, Sogdians, Uyghurs, and Tibetans are all mentioned as key concerns with profound effects on the stability of the central cosmopolitan regions.
While Qinshihuang was the first ruler to declare himself an emperor with the title of Huangdi, Eberhard maintains (and I agree) that it's oversimplistic to claim that he "founded China as we know it". Later non-Imperial kingdoms exceeded his territory, influence, and population individually without ever unifying the nation.
Instead, Eberhard terms "modern China" as starting from the late Sui and early Tang, whereupon a historian could more confidently claim an unbroken (or near-unbroken) line of Imperial command across dynasties. Prior to that, when empires collapsed into long-term squabbling intermediary kingdoms, Eberhard terms the period of "medieval China".
https://www.amazon.com/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Some-Girls/dp/0062381229
This is a book my son has wanted for awhile. He put it on his wishlist for Christmas in hopes of getting it. It’s all about his idol, and it’s a good addition to his sports collection. Thank you for this offer.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/054567350X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_BYC6BbVMPRSRS
The same book is on book depository. I looked it up.
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Walked-Between-Towers/dp/031236878X
Hi! Nice to finally "meet" you all. :D
I'm Amy Kim Kibuishi, formerly Amy Kim Ganter. I started my career as a graphic novelist/freelance illustrator, but I decided to write prose six years ago. It was always my first love, long abandoned because I thought I could never be good enough. I hope to prove myself wrong, one day.
I am mostly known for writing/drawing a two book graphic novel called "Sorcerers & Secretaries," and an online comic called "Reman Mythology."
These days I just write and take care of my two lovely kids (1-yr-old and a 3-yr-old).
Personal Links:
Published Comics:
Anthologies that feature my comics:
My current WIP
Biography of Walt Disney Written by his daughter, Diane Disney Miller. I always thought he was the most interesting person. I might just buy this for myself right now... God I want a kindle so bad so I can just download it and read right away! Maybe soon...
Also, check out this picture book on the life of JRR Tolkien's life called "John Ronald's Dragons". It's fantastic and while it would be for an older baby (likely 2+) it's incredibly fun.
https://www.amazon.com/Primates-Fearless-Science-Goodall-Galdikas/dp/1596438657
This is green in color!
> I have no proper hobbies (like science)
Go do yourself a favor and borrow/buy a Horrible Science book. Also, borrow or buy (it's Horribly Famous instead of Dead Famous now though) http://www.amazon.com/Albert-Einstein-Inflatable-Universe-Famous/dp/0439992168 since most of it is about relativity, which has a lot to do with light and time-travel.
But she was Born to Lead!
https://www.amazon.com/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Some-Girls/dp/0062381229
didn't work today, but here's a taste: https://www.amazon.com/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Some-Girls/dp/0062381229
Because some girls are born to lead
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