{"id":37200,"date":"2024-05-13T21:45:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T01:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37200"},"modified":"2024-05-13T21:45:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T01:45:54","slug":"review-of-ruth-objects-by-doreen-rappaport-illustrated-by-eric-velasquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37200","title":{"rendered":"Review of Ruth Objects, by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Eric Velasquez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ruth_objects_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ruth_objects_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40192\" \/><\/a><em>Ruth Objects<\/p>\n<p>The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>written by Doreen Rappaport<br \/>\nillustrated by Eric Velasquez<\/p>\n<p>Disney Hyperion, 2020.  44 pages.<br \/>\nReview written February 12, 2020, from a library book<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a wonderful subject for a picture book biography, because her life story is an inspiring one of triumphing in spite of obstacles.  She\u2019s a trailblazer, clearing a path for other women to follow in her steps.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/i_dissent.html\">I Dissent<\/a><\/em> a little more, since that was the picture book biography that first told me about Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s life.  But this one fills a niche of being for a slightly older age group (good for upper elementary, I think).  It gives more details of her life and her journey through law school, teaching, in courts, and to the Supreme Court.  I liked that when she was teaching at Columbia Law School, she filed lawsuits for women workers there to get the same benefits as men.  This book featured a lot of her cases that were about gender.<\/p>\n<p>Doreen Rappaport has a series of picture book biographies.  They all stand out for their large size with big, beautiful paintings of the subject (and always their face on the cover) and for the way she highlights quotes from the subject on every page.  Those big paintings make this book memorable.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cYes, women are here to stay.  And when I\u2019m sometimes asked when will there be enough women on the Court, and I respond when there are nine, people are shocked.  But the Supreme Court has had nine men for ever so long, and nobody\u2019s ever raised a question about that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doreenrappaport.com\">doreenrappaport.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ericvelasquez.com\/\">EricVelasquez.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/DisneyBooks.com\">DisneyBooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1484747178\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n<p>*Note* To try to catch up on posting reviews, I\u2019m posting the oldest reviews I\u2019ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website. They\u2019re still good books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Objects The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg written by Doreen Rappaport illustrated by Eric Velasquez Disney Hyperion, 2020. 44 pages. Review written February 12, 2020, from a library book Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a wonderful subject for a picture book biography, because her life story is an inspiring one of triumphing in spite of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-childrens-nonfiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43767,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37200\/revisions\/43767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}