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Renée Watson

Auteur de Piecing Me Together

26+ oeuvres 4,364 utilisateurs 191 critiques 1 Favoris

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Comprend les noms: Renée Watson, Renée Watson

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Œuvres de Renée Watson

Piecing Me Together (2017) 1,198 exemplaires
Ways to Make Sunshine (2020) 473 exemplaires
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water (2021) 426 exemplaires
Watch Us Rise (2019) 408 exemplaires
This Side of Home (2015) 317 exemplaires
Betty Before X (2018) 271 exemplaires
Some Places More Than Others (2019) 260 exemplaires
Ways to Grow Love (2021) 225 exemplaires
Love Is a Revolution (2021) 212 exemplaires
What Momma Left Me (2010) 144 exemplaires
A Place Where Hurricanes Happen (2010) 107 exemplaires
Maya’s Song (2022) 35 exemplaires
Ways to Share Joy (2022) 34 exemplaires
Ways to Build Dreams (2023) 15 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America (2019) — Contributeur — 529 exemplaires
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (2018) — Contributeur — 378 exemplaires
The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love, and Truth (2020) — Contributeur — 178 exemplaires
The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce (2019) — Contributeur — 106 exemplaires
Every Body Shines: Sixteen Stories about Living Fabulously Fat (2021) — Contributeur — 45 exemplaires
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires

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Nom canonique
Watson, Renée
Date de naissance
1978-07-29
Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
Paterson, New Jersey, USA

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Born on the Water is a beautiful book! The illustrations capture the content, tone, and emotions of the poetry so well. I thought the introduction to slavery and its trauma is honest, but sensitive to young readers. The accurate portrayal of the West African societies from which slaves were kidnapped gives all young readers, but especially young African American readers, an important context for those captured into slavery and the cultural influences seen among enslaved people in the United States and their descendants. This book also celebrates the determination, strength, and resilience of African Americans to create new lives out of such tragedy. Both authors note that they want African American readers to come away empowered and to reflect about their roots -- reading this book is a wonderful way to start such reflection.

I also see this book as important resource for teachers to use in the classroom, offering all students to reflect on the consequences of slavery in the United States, Black resistance and civil rights, and what it means to call oneself "American".
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AnnesLibrary | 22 autres critiques | Jan 28, 2024 |
I liked this book, although I did skim through the middle. It is not a dramatic feeling book, although it could have been, based on the plot points. Good for teens who like realistic fiction with no love drama.
 
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mslibrarynerd | 56 autres critiques | Jan 13, 2024 |
This book has an old fashioned, well manned protagonist that feels refreshing and simple and good. Were it not for the descriptions of lynchings and police murders, this book would be easy to fit on a list of books for sheltered children. It is full of the religious optimism of its adolescent main character Betty. the writing was very good, full of rich descriptive passages.
 
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mslibrarynerd | 13 autres critiques | Jan 13, 2024 |
I had not heard of this book until my library added it to their digital collection. I'm so glad I stumbled across it! The audiobook was read beautifully by the author herself, and the writing was so poetic.
 
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Dances_with_Words | 56 autres critiques | Jan 6, 2024 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
26
Aussi par
7
Membres
4,364
Popularité
#5,750
Évaluation
4.1
Critiques
191
ISBN
131
Langues
2
Favoris
1

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