tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:19138 conuly conuly 2010-06-08T00:29:32Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:19138:1707864 2010-06-08T00:29:32Z 2010-06-08T00:29:32Z cheerful public 0 Fan of Newsies, picture books, AND biographies?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.booksbybrown.com/blinkpage.html">Check this out.</a><br /><br />This is actually a pretty good book about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Blink"><i>actual</i> events</a> (not the Disneyfied version of history) of the strike. Among other things, the hero is Kid Blink, who actually was a leader in real life... unlike in the movie where the leaders are all the pretty guys and Blink is a very minor background figure. (Fan of fixing the erasure of disabled people in history?)<br /><br />Don Brown (not who you're thinking!) has rapidly become one of my new favorite picture book authors because of his biographies, and this one is no failure. You <i>really</i> should check out a copy.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=conuly&ditemid=1707864" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments