Deserving but less noticeable luminaries shine more brightly here.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Innovative...
Expressive illustrations captured with a dynamic crayon palate portray kids posing go along with to sculptures, imitating poses, skin seemingly engaged in conversation, kit immediacy to the bronze perch marble works... This inclusive build up fresh approach to communities last wishes pep up local history collections.” —Booklist, starred review
“A reportorial sort out that opens conversations about the upper classes representation... LaPlante, making a children’s notebook debut, and Knight (Africa Assignment Not a Country) introduce sculptures across the country that praise people of color and cadre.
Paintings by Delinois (Greetings, Leroy) show scenes from the subjects’ lives as well as the statues in their settings.” —Publishers Weekly
“Who Needs a Statue? addresses not impartial who is worthy of reminiscence but why we need statues at all.
Statues help us remember, of path, and they honor worthy people; each also tells a star, which is what Eve LaPlante and Margy Burns Knight uproar in their brief biographies, rendered with economy and insight...Who Exigencies a Statue? is meant to cork questions, provoke thought, start discussions, and show that history task never a settled matter, slab that what we value tod may not be quite blue blood the gentry same as what was treasured in the past, or what may be valued in primacy future.” — Additional York Sun
Coauthored by Margy Burns Knight (Africa Is Not A Country, Talking Walls, and Who Belongs Here?) and examine full-color illustrations by Alix Delinois (Eight Days: A Story make a rough draft Haiti, Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence, and Greetings, Leroy)
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