Tag Archives: President Trump

Voting Rights and Wrongs

Posted on October 26, 2020 by rosinskynatalie

The upcoming presidential election and its aftermath are hot topics! In conversations and the news, questions about voting rights and wrongs are almost unavoidable. A recent book titled Women’s Right to Vote (2020), written by Kate Messner and illustrated by … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Dylan Meconis, Kate Messner, President Trump, presidential election, Vice-President Bident, Women's Right to Vote | Leave a comment

Laws and Orders

Posted on June 29, 2020 by rosinskynatalie

The death here in Minnesota of George Floyd has sparked world-wide protests against police brutality and racism, with people demanding new laws and orders to protect every person’s civil rights. History has shown that “law and order” political leaders such … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, memoir | Tagged Afua Richardson, Andrew Aydin, autobigoraphy, civil rights, Civil Rights Act of 1964, George Floyd, George Takei, Harmony Becker, institutional racism, internment, internment camps, Japanese-Americans, Justin Eisinger, Lieutenant Sulu, March Book One, March Book Three, March Book Two, memoir, Mine Okubo, Minnesota, murder, Nate Powell, National Japanese American Museum, police brutality, President Barack Obama, President Trump, Presidential Order 9066, protests, racism, relocation, Representative John Lewis, Run, sequel to March, Star Trek, Steven Scott, They Called Us Enemy, Voting Rights Act, World War II | Leave a comment

On Fire

Posted on February 1, 2020 by rosinskynatalie

Blazing sights and sounds dominate the news. Very young readers may have “tuned out” the U.S. impeachment firestorms, but the vivid, heartrending images of Australia’s animals burned in that country’s worst-ever firestorm season are unforgettable. These wildfires sparked just as … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, catastrophe, graphic novels, memoir, picture books | Tagged A Fire Story, A is for Australian Animals, airplanes, alphabet book, Australia, Brian Fies, Bridget Heos, bushfires, California, chapter book, charcoal, Claire Saxby, climate change, controlled burns, digital illustration, drawing style, early elementary readers, Emu, Extreme Wildfire Smoke Jumpers High Tech Gear Survival Tactics and the Extraordinary Science of Fire, firefighters, firefighting, firestorm season, Frane Lessac, Glen Phelan, Grahame Byrne, graphic novel, Greg Egan, impeachment, kangaroo, Kathy Furgang, Little Smokey, Mark Thiessen, Marsupials, Mom's Cancer, National Geographic books, Nic Bishop, picture book, President Trump, Robert Neubecker, Stephane Jorisch, teen readers, The Big Burn Teddy Roosevelet and the Fire That Saved America, The Little Engine that Could, The World's Worst Wildfires, Tracy Nelson Maurer, tween readers, visual storytelling, watercolor, What to Expect When You're Expecting Joeys A Guide for Marsupial Parents (and Curious Kids), Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow, wildfires | Leave a comment

On the Brink

Posted on January 1, 2020 by rosinskynatalie

On the brink of a new year, I have been thinking of medieval explorers at the brink of unknown seas or lands. “Here be dragons or lions,” their mapmakers warned. As we enter 2020 here in the U.S., the little … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels | Tagged 2020, Africa, autumn equinox, Chinua Achebe, colonialism, Congo, corruption, evil, fantasy, festivals, friendship, graphic adaptation, Heart of Darkness, Japan, Joseph Conrad, journeys, maps, New Year, Peter Kuper, President Trump, racism, Ryan Andrews, star map, This Was Our Pact, xenophobia | Leave a comment

Immigrant Generations

Posted on September 1, 2018 by rosinskynatalie

Have you been busy calming your young people’s new school or classroom jitters? In my senior citizen circles, this duty falls to grandparents as well as parents and school staff. It can be even more frightening or puzzling for students … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, picture books | Tagged "boat people", A Different Pond, art, back to school, Bao Phi, communication, Dan Santat, Drawn Together, family history, fishing, grandparents, immigrant, immigration policies, language barrier, memoir, Minh Le, Minneapolis, North Vietnam, President Trump, refugee camp, refugees, Thai-American, Thi Bui, Vietnamese War, Vietnamese-American, working class | Leave a comment

Celebrating a New Year

Posted on January 1, 2018 by rosinskynatalie

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. These words from a Tennyson poem are one traditional New Year’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, comics | Tagged African American, Afro-Latino, anti-globalism, Bat Man, Chinese Superman, Chinese-American, DC comics, DC superheroes, diverse superheroes., Flash, Gene Luen Yang, globalism, I-Ching, January 1, Justice League of China, Kamala Khan, Kenneth Grahame, Kij Johnson, Kong Kenan, Lunella Lafayette, Miles Morales, Moon Girl, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Ms. Marvel, Muslim, New Super-Man Volume 1: Made in China, New Super-Man Volume 2: Coming to American, New Super-Man Volume 3: Equilibrium, New Year celebration, Pakistani-American, President Trump, rewritten classics, Richard Friend, Shanghai, Sonny Liew, Spider Man, teenage Superman, Tennyson, The River Bank: A Sequel to the Wind in the Willows, The Shadow Hero, The Wind in the Willows, Viktor Bogdanovic, Wonder Woman | Leave a comment

Holy Lands

Posted on November 16, 2017 by rosinskynatalie

One Navajo, one Jew: two distinct “holy lands.” Our recent ten day sojourn in Santa Fe, New Mexico reminded me of how culture and personal vision determine which particular portions of Mother Earth we hold sacred. Writing from the small … Continue reading →

Posted in articles | Tagged Abiquiu, adobe house, Ayelet Waldman, Bears Ears National Monument, cathedral, Catholic missionaries, Christianity, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Georgia O'Keefe, holy land, Israel, Judaism, KIngdom of Olives and Ash:Writers Confront the Holocaust, kivas, Michael Chabon, missionaries, Muslim, Native American, Navajo, New Mexico, non-Christian gods, Palestinian, Pecos National Monument, President Trump, proselytizing, Pueblo, religion, sacred, Saint Kateria Tekawitha, Santa Fe, secular, secular humanism, Spanish priests, Temple Mount, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Willa Cather | Leave a comment

Trending–Heroes and Icons

Posted on September 1, 2017 by rosinskynatalie

“Popularity” changes and is rarely “one-size-fits-all.” We could see such trending last month in back-to-school clothing sales and, more significantly, the toppling of Confederate monuments that lionized slavery’s defenders. Heroism is time and culture-sensitive. This is equally true of the … Continue reading →

Posted in comic book collection, comics, graphic novels | Tagged aliens, Amy Reeder, Black Captain America, Brandon Montclare, Confederate monuments, diversity, Genius, girls in science, Hispanic Spiderman, Hulk, Huntington's Chorea, Huntington's Disease, icons, It's a Bird . . ., Kamala Khan, Lunella Lafayette, Marco Failla, Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Ms. Marvel, Natacha Bustos, outsiders, popular heroes, President Trump, Ray-Anthony Height, science, Steven T. Seagle, superheroes, Superman, Tamira Bonvillain, Teddy Kristiansen, the Thing, Travis Lanham | 1 Comment

Bigger Than Life? Tall Tales and “Fake News”

Posted on June 1, 2017 by rosinskynatalie

We Minnesotans love tall tales—especially ones about Paul Bunyan. Kids read about how his huge feet supposedly stomped out our 10,000 lakes and how the giant chopped down thousands of trees with one ax stroke. The communities of Bemidji and … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, picture books | Tagged "fake news", American folk lore, Audrey Wood, Bemidji, Brainerd, Carrie McIntie, Cathy Malkasian, David Shannon, dreams, Eartha, epitaphs, fairy tale, Kevin O'Malley, legendary heroes, Lucette Diana Kensack, Maine, Marybeth Lorbiecki, Minnesota, Ojibwe, Paul Bunyan, Paul Bunyan Day, Paul Bunyan's Sweetheart, Paula Bunyan, Phyllis Root, picture book, President Trump, quest, Renee Graef, social media, tall tale hero, tall tales, teen readers, The Bunyans, tween readers, tweets | Leave a comment

Going Nuclear

Posted on March 1, 2017 by rosinskynatalie

Going nuclear? A recent, award-winning picture book; another acclaimed, older picture book; and some classic and in-progress graphic novels remind us just how terrible this military choice has been. These works center upon the World War II atomic devastation of … Continue reading →

Posted in biographies, graphic novels, manga, memoir, picture books, Uncategorized | Tagged A Cartoon History of Hiroshima, atom bomb, atomic power plant, Barefoot Gen, Caren Stelson, comics, Depression, Fukushima nuclear power plant, Hiroshima, Ichi-F: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Japan, Japanese Prime Minister Abe, Junko Morimoto, Kazuto Tatsuta, Keiji Nakasawa, My Hiroshima, non-violence, nuclear arsenal, nuclear disarmament, nuclear melt down, nuclear power plant, nuclear war, peace, Peace Garden, President Trump, Raina Telgemeier, Sachiko Yasui, Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story, Silbert Honor Award, United States, World War II | Leave a comment

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