![]() ![]() I love how (the book) JOSEPHINE is, like the real Josephine, a rare creature. Having read JOSEPHINE, and having then watched a half-hour's worth of Josephine Baker shining in film that is readily available on Youtube videos, I am overflowing with joy and gratitude for being lucky enough to live in a time and place where the quality of technology and children's publishing permits the creation of a truly amazing book like this one, and the digital age in which we live offers us significant, instant access to the most incredible resources (such as 80 year-old films of Josephine Baker). GRIMACING, and SIGHING through her exotic jig.īut she couldn't sit at a table and eat dinner with the white folk. 'It's impossible to take your eyes off the little cross-eyed girl.' "Josephine jutted out her hip, flirted and grinned,Īnd STOLE THE SPOTLIGHT from Eva, the star. Richie's Picks: JOSEPHINE: THE DAZZLING LIFE OF JOSEPHINE BAKER by Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson, ill., Chronicle, January 2014, 104p., ISBN: 978-1-4521-0314-3 ![]()
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