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Title: What happened to Jean Fritz?
Review: I rely on Jean Fritz -- I like her style from little-kid biographies (And then what happened, Paul Revere?) to big-kid biographies (Why Not, Lafayeete? or Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?)I was tremendously excited to read this book, but what a disappointment. Jean Fritz often has an undertone of irony in her books (which we applaud *and* enjoy), but this book is sarcasm-unleashed.The tone of the book is unpleasantly snarky. It is inappropriate for my kids... I wanted an instructive and entertaining book, not a soliloquy founded on Jean Fritz's simmering hostility to Western civilization. Only the excellent illustrations save it from a one-star rating.Instead of this book, try Marc Aronson's book "The World Made New."The World Made New: Why the Age of Exploration Happened and How It Changed the World (Timelines of American History)
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