Jonah Winter is the award-winning author of more than forty nonfiction picture books that promote environmental awareness and social and racial justice. Among them are The Snow Man; The Little Owl & the Big Tree: A Christmas Story; Oil; The Secret Project; Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality; My Name is James Madison Hemings; Barack; The Founding Fathers!; and Lillian's Right to Vote, a Jane Addams Children's Book Award recipient and Kirkus Prize finalist.
Jeanette Winter is a celebrated picture book creator whose acclaimed works include The Snow Man; The Little Owl & the Big Tree: A Christmas Story; Oil; The Secret Project; and Diego, all written by Jonah Winter, and her own Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia; Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan; and Our House Is on Fire: Greta Thunberg's Call to Save the Planet, which has been translated into twenty-one languages.
"[T]he quiet--and then abruptly explosive--tone is spot-on,
cultivating both curiosity and unease, as if this is a secret we'd
rather not know. Expect plenty of questions after sharing this with
children, though it's likely that's precisely the point."--Booklist
*STARRED REVIEW* "12/1/16"
"A picture book's powerful potential to reach multiple audiences at
varied levels of prior knowledge and understanding is on full
display here, and adults tasked with shepherding youth of all ages
through the darkest episodes of history will appreciate so moving
and versatile a guide. The youngest audience will learn the facts,
but the sinister implications a secret government project and the
unimaginable consequences of covert research will impel an older
readership to confront their grim inheritance."--Bulletin of the
Center for Children's Books *STARRED REVIEW* "January 2017"
"An author's note supplies more information about the event and its
repercussions, but the text itself, concise and thorough, stands on
its own, its dispassionate accounting just the right counterpoint
to the contained terror in the art."--The Horn Book *STARRED
REVIEW* "March/April 2017"
"Jonah Winter's honest depiction, accompanied by the vivid and
detailed artwork, tells the creation of the atomic bomb with
expertise and tact... This is an excellent historical, as well as
scientific, picture book offering opportunity for rich discussion
among student readers and educators. Highly Recommended."--School
Library Connection "May/June 2017"
"Jonah Winter's text is eloquent, and his mother's acrylic-and-pen
illustrations evoke a beautiful landscape in danger if the
scientists' contraption works.... An astonishing way to lay the
groundwork for such works for older readers as Steve Sheinkin's
Bomb (2012), this is a beautifully told introduction to a difficult
subject."--Kirkus Reviews *STARRED REVIEW* "11/1/16"
"Sure to spark conversation about ethics and the use of nuclear
weaponry, this powerful book demands a wide
readership."--Publishers Weekly *STARRED REVIEW* "12/5/16"
A moving, nonpreachy springboard for older elementary grade and
middle school discussions of the Manhattan Project or nuclear
weapons in general.--School Library Journal "January 2017"
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