{"id":40445,"date":"2024-05-26T23:05:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T03:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40445"},"modified":"2024-05-26T23:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T03:05:25","slug":"review-of-change-sings-by-amanda-gorman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40445","title":{"rendered":"Review of Change Sings, by Amanda Gorman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/change_sings_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/change_sings_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40478\" \/><\/a><em>Change Sings<\/p>\n<p>A Children&#8217;s Anthem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Amanda Gorman<br \/>\npictures by Loren Long<\/p>\n<p>Viking, 2021.  32 pages.<br \/>\nReview written November 16, 2021, from a library book<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not usually a fan of picture books that simply try to present an uplifting idea, but this book is something special, and I can&#8217;t resist Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman&#8217;s words.<\/p>\n<p>We begin with a girl who looks like a young Amanda Gorman sitting and strumming a guitar.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can hear change humming<br \/>\nIn its loudest, proudest song.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t fear change coming,<br \/>\nAnd so I sing along.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pictures show the girl enlisting other kids to help make a difference &#8212; both playing instruments and cleaning up city streets and playgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>They end up with a diverse cast doing good things and forming a joyful parade.<\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t really do it justice in a description.  Check out this book and see if you aren&#8217;t uplifted, empowered, and filled with hope.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about coming together, doing good, and making music together where everyone is welcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0593203224\/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>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but 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>Change Sings A Children&#8217;s Anthem by Amanda Gorman pictures by Loren Long Viking, 2021. 32 pages. Review written November 16, 2021, from a library book Starred Review I&#8217;m not usually a fan of picture books that simply try to present an uplifting idea, but this book is something special, and I can&#8217;t resist Inaugural Poet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15,28,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary","category-picture-book-review","category-poetry","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40445","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=40445"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43828,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40445\/revisions\/43828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}