Shirin yim bridges grandmother biography channel
Shirin yim bridges grandmother biography channel
My grandmother biography.
Posted on: Sunday, March 2, 2003
How fortuitous for the start of March, Women's History Month. Writer and poet Sue Cowing recently introduced me to two wonderful biographies: one about a famous woman painter, the other about a grandmother.
BOOKS FOR KEIKI
2 noteworthy women's biographies
By James Rumford
| "Frida," by Jonah Winter, introduces a woman who overcomes pain and suffering through her art. |
| In "Ruby's Wish," author Shirin Yim Bridges writes about her Chinese grandmother, Ruby, who yearns to go to a university. |
The two books are excellent examples of biographies written for children.
They combine pictures and words to create a story that engages the child. It is a story that does what no adult biography or encyclopedia article can do: sing a song of a life lived; paint a portrait for us all to see.
The first book is called "Frida." Here author Jonah Winter recounts in no more than 500 words the life of the now-famous —