{"id":42257,"date":"2023-05-03T22:20:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T02:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42257"},"modified":"2023-05-03T22:20:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T02:20:57","slug":"review-of-my-name-is-jason-mine-too-by-jason-reynolds-and-jason-griffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42257","title":{"rendered":"Review of My Name Is Jason. Mine Too, by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/my_name_is_jason_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/my_name_is_jason_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42448\" \/><\/a><em>My Name Is Jason.  Mine Too.<\/p>\n<p>Our Story.  Our Way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin<\/p>\n<p>Atheneum, 2022.  (First created in 2009.)<br \/>\nReview written February 26, 2023, from a library book<br \/>\n2022 Cybils Finalist &#8211; Poetry Collections<\/p>\n<p><em>My Name Is Jason.  Mine Too.<\/em> is from the same two Jasons who created the award-winning <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/aint_burned_all_the_bright.html\">Ain&#8217;t Burned All the Bright<\/a>.<\/em>  This book came first, and was recently reissued.  It&#8217;s a memoir in poetry and art &#8212; about two young guys who moved to New York City after college.  One dreamed of being a poet and the other an artist.  They were twenty and twenty-two years old.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t an easy road for them.  They were hungry.  Their parents weren&#8217;t thrilled.  And they thought maybe they were making a big mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m an old fogey.  There&#8217;s probably lots of symbolism in the art that I&#8217;m not getting.  But together with the words, there&#8217;s something powerful going on here.  The book paints a portrait of two guys, trying to be adults in the world and yet also make art.<\/p>\n<p>And wow!  One of them went on to become the National Ambassador for Young People&#8217;s Literature.<\/p>\n<p>I hope there will be more collaborations in the future with these two Jasons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonwritesbooks.com\/\">jasonwritesbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1534478221\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Teen_Nonfiction\/my_name_is_jason.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Teen_Nonfiction\/my_name_is_jason.html<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. Our Story. Our Way. by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin Atheneum, 2022. (First created in 2009.) Review written February 26, 2023, from a library book 2022 Cybils Finalist &#8211; Poetry Collections My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. is from the same two Jasons who created the award-winning Ain&#8217;t Burned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,28,404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-poetry","category-teen-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42257","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=42257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42449,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42257\/revisions\/42449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}