Jemmy Button
Jemmy Button
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Jemmy Button

Written and illustrated by Jennifer Uman and Valerio Vidali
Hardcover
$16.99
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5 - 7
Reading age
48
Page count
12
Words per page
~681L
Lexile measure
Mar 26, 2013
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A beautiful collaboration based on a true story. Exchanged for the single mother-of-pearl button that gave him his nickname, an indigenous Tierra del Fuegan boy named Orundellico spent many years in England in the early 1800s as part of a failed experiment in forced civilization. Less a biography than an attempt to represent this alienating experience from Jemmy’s point of view, it is distinguished by lyrical prose-poetry (“Come away with us and taste our language, see the lights of our world,” the British explorers tell Jemmy) and intensely creative and beautifully conceived paintings. On matte pages, Jemmy, a paper-doll figure with red ochre skin and curly black hair, walks naked through throngs of top-hatted and gowned silhouettes, all the same shade of blue. His guardians buy him clothes and take him to concerts, but the paintings show him always set apart from his companions. “Jemmy felt almost at home. Almost, but not quite.”

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780763664879
    Publication Date
    March 26, 2013
    Publisher
    Templar
    Page Count
    48
    Words Per Page
    12
    Audience
    Picture
    Reading Age
    5 - 7 years
    Est. Lexile® Level
    ~681L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~P
    ATOS® Book Level
    4.4
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    0.5
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    157881
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    LG

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