{"id":399,"date":"2009-02-25T21:57:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T01:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/review-of-the-wall-by-peter-sis\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T00:32:26","slug":"review-of-the-wall-by-peter-sis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Wall, by Peter Sis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image398\" height=\"208\" alt=\"wall.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/wall.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Wall<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Peter Sis<\/p>\n<p>Frances Foster Books (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>2008 Robert F. Sibert Medal winner.<\/p>\n<p>2008 Caldecott Honor Book.<\/p>\n<p>In a picture book for children, Peter Sis here creatively captures what it was like to be an artist growing up in Czechoslovakia behind the Iron Curtain.<\/p>\n<p>With his art, he\u00a0expresses to the reader the feelings of the students who did not want to be repressed.<\/p>\n<p>This book reminded me of <em>Persepolis, <\/em>another story of a student growing up under oppression, also told with art.\u00a0 <em>The Wall <\/em>is simpler, and thus more suitable for children, intelligent children who will think about the images and read the fine print.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also suitable for intelligent adults who will think about the images and read the fine print.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a powerful testimonial against repression.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0374347018\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/wall.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/wall.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis Frances Foster Books (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York, 2007. 2008 Robert F. Sibert Medal winner. 2008 Caldecott Honor Book. In a picture book for children, Peter Sis here creatively captures what it was like to be an artist growing up in Czechoslovakia behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-history","category-true-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}