Jemmy Button

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I feel the illustrations throughout the story offer lots of deep thought and conversational points with the children, the idea of only Jemmy and his family being drawn with life like colour and all the European folk are silhouettes of varying degree, for me shows the strong link Jemmy will always have with home. Another activity that I would do with students would be to highlight geography and how the world trades and interacts with each other by the spread of culture.

Using culture to show how ideas and language spread across the globe would be a good point to highlight in relation to Jemmy and his adventure that he had. When he goes back to his land and back to his people, he immediately sheds what he was wearing and goes back to his life on the island completely unchanged from everything that he has seen in the land that is not his own. There is minimal text in this book, which relies on detailed, thoughtful images to convey the story.I can see why contrasting illustration styles were chosen, but I would have preferred more representativeness. Their vivid illustrations bring Jemmy's feelings of isolation, loneliness and eventual belonging beautifully to life.

Buku ini mengambarkan seorang anak yang dibawa jauh dari tanah kelahirannya [yang dianggap sangat primintif oleh org2 yg ngebawanya] untuk di didik jadi berbudaya [tuh kan poskolonial banget ya. Taken from his island home as a child and taken to Victorian England for instruction in the ways of proper living, Jemmy Button (as he is known because his parents were given a pearl button in exchange for him) conforms to society but only just quite. The contexts of O'run-del'lico (aka Jemmy Button)'s story as told through Uman and Vadali's picture book feel wrong to me. The boy was nicknamed Jemmy Button because Captain FitzRoy gave his parents a button in exchange for him. I think this book would be good for third graders to work with adventure books and introduce them to colonization and how our world changed during the 1800’s.

I loved the illustrations in this book; my 2yo did, took and had fun pointing out Jemmy on each page.

The real Orundellico was taken from his people as a young boy and sent to England to be educated in Christianity and Victorian customs. The illustrations are captivating and show how isolated Jemmy Button feels particularly because the European people have been shown as silhouettes and dark figures. I believe Jemmy Button and his people were kidnapped and I would have preferred that to be depicted in the book.

This can open the dialogue of innate and learnt behaviours, can we really change the way people behave to fit our ideology? Wally Wombat We are human animals Well Done Mummy Penguin Wendy and the Wallpaper Cat What Degas Saw What Does the Crocodile Say?