{"id":40554,"date":"2024-06-01T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T21:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40554"},"modified":"2024-06-02T20:41:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T00:41:20","slug":"review-of-latinitas-by-juliet-menendez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40554","title":{"rendered":"Review of Latinitas, by Juliet Men\u00e9ndez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/latinitas_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/latinitas_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"499\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/latinitas_large.jpg 392w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/latinitas_large-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><em>Latinitas<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Juliet Men\u00e9ndez<\/p>\n<p>Godwin Books (Henry Holt), 2021.  102 pages<br \/>\nReview written December 11, 2021, from a library book<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a big fan of collective biographies.  When there are page after page of short bios, the details start to run together.  But this book is something special.<\/p>\n<p><em>Latinitas<\/em> has forty one-page biographies of Latinas who accomplished great things, with about half of each bio focusing on the subject&#8217;s childhood.  There&#8217;s a folk-art style illustration of each subject as a girl, with a banner giving her name and what she&#8217;s known for.  She&#8217;s holding things that symbolize her accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>Something I liked about this collection is that I hadn&#8217;t heard of a large proportion of these truly amazing woman.  I am so glad their stories will become more well-known.  They come from countries all over Latin America.  The first woman featured, a military leader, was born in 1651 in Mexico, and the last one, an Olympic gymnast, was born in 2000 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I hope many young Latinas find this book and are inspired!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.julietmenendez.com\/\">julietmenendez.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/mackids\/\">mackids.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/125023462X\/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>Latinitas Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Men\u00e9ndez Godwin Books (Henry Holt), 2021. 102 pages Review written December 11, 2021, from a library book I&#8217;m not a big fan of collective biographies. When there are page after page of short bios, the details start to run together. But this book is something special. Latinitas has [&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-40554","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\/40554","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=40554"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43866,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40554\/revisions\/43866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}