BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS, HS - ADVISABLE
APPEALS TO: SEVERAL
Shy, skinny, anxious Steven grew up in a loving, creative family that gave him the tools to survive the bullying he experienced and the imagination to create worlds on film for others to also escape into.
I love how Barretta weaves Steven's career into his childhood, so that we have a singular whole instead two different acts. Orback's illustrations feel flat, which is almost minor, considering how much Spielberg fans will enjoy his picture book biography. I love that Baretta shows the struggles and rejections as being an important part of the whole - sending the blockbuster movies as scenery, not the focus. Any school with a film class should have this biography. Steven is white and Jewish.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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