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“Get ready for a BLAST. Get ready for JOSEPHINE.”

This biography is a fast-moving narrative as it shares the overview of Josephine Baker's life. The biography highlights the extraordinary life of Josephine Baker and how she overcame many challenges. One main topic the book focuses on is segregation and how Josephine believed everybody, no matter their race, could live together in harmony. This was important to include in this biography as Josephine was very motivated to speak out against it.

The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, is a beautifully written and illustrated biography about Josephine Baker's life. The book highlights the joy of Josephine Baker and her life accomplishments as a dancer, actor, and performer. The book celebrates her life as it shares the barriers she broke to her rise to fame. Overall, Josephine Baker was a great inspiration to many and this book does an excellent job capturing it.

“Get ready for a BLAST. Get ready for JOSEPHINE.”

This biography is a very fast paced narrative. It encompasses the major milestones and events of Josephine Baker's life. In addition to the many challenges, she faced and overcame to become the successful individual she is known for. One of the main focuses of this story is on segregation. Specifically, how Josephine believed everyone, no matter their race, could live together in harmony. I found this to be a nice addition to the story.

This a beautifully written and illustrated piece of literature is a biography about Josephine Baker's life. The book highlights the joy of Josephine and her multitude of life accomplishments as a dancer, actor, and performer. The book celebrates her life as it shares the barriers that she broke on her rise to fame. Overall, Josephine was an inspiration to many, and this piece of literature does an excellent job capturing this.

“Get ready for a BLAST. Get ready for JOSEPHINE.”

This biography is a fast-moving narrative as it shares the overview of Josephine Baker's life. The biography highlights the extraordinary life of Josephine Baker and how she overcame many challenges. One main topic the book focuses on is segregation and how Josephine believed everybody, no matter their race, could live together in harmony. This was very important to include in this biography as Josephine was very motivated to speak out against it.

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, is a beautifully written and illustrated biography about Josephine Baker's life. The book highlights the joy of Josephine Baker and her life accomplishments as a dancer, actor, and performer. The book celebrates her life as it shares the barriers she broke to her rise to fame. Overall, Josephine Baker was a great inspiration to many and this book does an excellent job capturing it.

“People watched and said, 'BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL'“

This biography is a fast-moving narrative as it shares the overview of Josephine Baker's life. The biography highlights the extraordinary life of Josephine Baker and how she overcame many challenges. One main topic the book focuses on is segregation and how Josephine believed everybody, no matter their race, could live together in harmony. This was very important to include in this biography as Josephine was very motivated to speak out against it.

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, is a beautifully written and illustrated biography about Josephine Baker's life. The book highlights the joy of Josephine Baker and her life accomplishments as a dancer, actor, and performer. The book celebrates her life as it shares the barriers she broke to her rise to fame. Overall, Josephine Baker was a great inspiration to many and this book does an excellent job capturing it.

Josephine sat on Mama‘s knee and sponged up that funky music through her ears, her body. Her SOUL.

I liked the illustrations in this book! They were very colorful and fun and flowed well with the movement and presentation of the words.

Biography about Josephine Baker. Josephine Baker was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture. She was a dancer and loved to perform. It goes through the different challenges she faced to show the world her vibrant and passionate gift.

I really enjoyed this picture book in verse (which I'll add book info for soon). It covers the life of Josephine Baker as she broke into showbiz, went to France to escape segregated performance spaces, became super famous, and started the Rainbow Tribe. (Thanks to this book, I also noticed a nod to Kosephine during a recent rewatch of the animated Anastasia movie!). #NonFiction #PictureBook

Kids need more stories like this. What an amazing life Josephine Baker led. I‘m intrigued to learn more.

Review: Josephine by Patricia Powell, 2014, is a biography about performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker. It was well researched by the author and illustrator
Blurb: This is a great example of the genre because it tells the true story of a real person, and it uses real quotes that came from the main character that flow and fit into the storyline.
Quote: “Josephine-born poor, out of wedlock in honky-tonk town.“

This biography book is good because it accurately portrays Josephine's life and its background becomes told through the story. Its authentic in its writing and the illustrations help reveal themes throughout the book. I believe its a fast moving narrative that also keeps the readers involved and engaged!

This book would be great for kids in early childhood classrooms. I think they would find it enjoyable and i also believe the message is strong and empowering! The biography shows a large span of Josephine's life and gives light into everything that happened!

“Improvised, crazed with the music. Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. I leapt to touch the sky. When I regained earth it was mine alone.“

I would consider using this book in my classroom however it was pretty long so I'm not sure if the kids would be willing to pay and keep their attention on the book but it may spark interest in some of the kids.

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker written by Patricia Hruby Powell. About the timeline of the course of Josephine's personal life and career as a dancer. Certain words have different fonts which seem to emphasize or exaggerate the meaning, such as POP! in all caps.

“The chorus of frenzied dancers joined her.“

This book would be great for 2nd and 3rd graders. It's a longer book so it would be better for older elementary kids to read. The pages are longer so it would be easier for 2nd and 3rd graders to understand what is going on.

This is a nonfiction book. The text in this book is definitely appropriate for an intended audience because the words are presented clearly and a good size for students to read. The language is also very vivid and interesting because it's on different colors of papers and the words are placed in odd spots.

“Cross your heart... swear you won‘t tell Mama... I‘m leavin‘ with the show...”

Super cute book!!

Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell published in 2014 tells the biography of Josephine McDonald. Josephine was a flapper dancer, she left home without telling her parents to go dance with a show.

This book was published in 2014. This book is also a biography about the dancer Josephine Baker. This book covers the whole life of the dancer, and elaborates about her life before becoming the dancer.
Other than explaining the life of Josephine Baker with words, the book has very unique illustrations all throughout. The illustrations are able to tell the story of the Josephine without there being words on the page.

This book is a B and would read as a RA. It is a wonderful story about how a child who grew in poverty grew to become someone who is looked upon as a role model and has children which is named the rainbow tribe. #ucflae3414su19

Josephine: The dazzling life of Josephine Baker is a beautiful B about entertainer & Harlem Renaissance activist Josephine baker. It is a CSK award winner as well as a Robert Sibert award winner. I think this book would be a great IR for students to study the life of Josephine Baker. #UCFLAE3414SU19

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (B) Written by Patricia Hruby Powell and illustrated by Christina Robinson. (Corette Scott King and Caldecott Awards) I LOVED this book! It summarizes the life of Josephine Baker, a brave, strong, heroic dancer! I feel like this story would make a great ST because it just makes you feel like dancing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6cSTBfIGHk

Josephine (Robert Sibert award + Coretta Scott King award) by: Patricia H Powell and Illustrated by: Christian Robinson is a NF biography that will have you hanging on every word! The book tells the tale of Josephine Bakers uneasy rise to flapper dance stardom. Reading it was an enriching experience. It‘s a great book for vocabulary instruction and cross concepts with social studies. I would do a RA with this book for sure.

Oh, wow! What an inspiring read told in verses and striking visuals! Her dreams took her to places she thought impossible. From rags to riches - from lowlife no-life to Paris high-life, Josephine Baker broke down walls and barriers, and proved that impossible is 'I m possible'!

#BBRC @LibrarianRyan #AtoZOfPictureBooks

Letter J

“I shall dance all my life...”

The way the author made the text is something that may draw kids to read this book! Super interesting!

Biography
Josephine is a performer and civil rights advocate. She started in St. Louis‘s dumps and made it to the biggest stages in the world.

“She strode down the Champs-èlysees, the heart of Paris, with her leopard, Chiquita, each wearing a diamond chocked as regal as a queen by day as wild as a leopard by night.”