These days, a lot of people are trying to tell teens what’s best for them. Here’s a look at life from artist and professional nonconformist Laurie Rosenwald, who insists that she doesn’t want to tell anyone what to do. But when you are as irreverent as she is (Is the earth really worth saving?) and as funny (Your breasts: What do they mean?) people sort of DO want to know what you think. Then again, if you think like Rosenwald, it could get you kicked out of yoga class.
In the tradition of nothing you’ve ever seen or read, All the Wrong People Have Self Esteem is for young women* who ask good questions about life and then like to laugh at the answers. Got a better approach?
LAURIE ROSENWALD is an award winning designer who launched her site and studio, rosenworld.com in 1995. She teaches a workshop called “How to Make Mistakes on Purpose,” and has been a professor of graphic design at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design. Her New York Notebook is on sale at the George Pompidou Center in Paris, and everyplace else that’s cool. Her first picture book, And To Name But Just a Few: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, was named a Scholastic Parent & Child Best Book of 2007. She is also a painter, speaks Swedish like a native New Yorker, and appeared as “Woman” on “The Sopranos.”
Product Details
Reading level: Ages 12 and up
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens (December 9, 2008)
laurie rosenwald is a painter, author, and principal of rosenworld, a design and animation studio. actually there is no studio, miss rosenwald works alone, and rosenworld doesn't exist. in spite of this, rosenworld.com was launched in 1995. Â she divides her time between sweden and new york city.
This review is from: All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem: An Inappropriate Book for Young Ladies* (Paperback)
What a refreshing pleasure it is to have a Laurie Rosenwald book in your hands. Bright and funny and sophisticated and wise and playful and creative and tactile and amusing and most of all, so deadly honest, which we could all use a little more of in this world.
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This review is from: All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem: An Inappropriate Book for Young Ladies* (Paperback)
Rosenwald exalts us with extreme truth expressed with so much original spunk and clarity, you'll feel inspired to bake Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Muffins," a concept introduced in the book where you combine ingredients which don't go together...and YET THEY DO! Like beets and chocolate. Like vegetarians and meat. Laurie speaks in fluent collage. She combines bits of images, paint, rants and ideas like a surrealist writing a survival manual. And the best thing is, IT ALL MAKES SENSE. I have never met a book so vastly original, strange, poetic, hilarious, helpful and hip all at once. Laurie Rosenwald makes THINKING FUN... which is why this is an excellent book for all minds that love to frolic.
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This review is from: All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem: An Inappropriate Book for Young Ladies* (Paperback)
This is a great book for teenage girls to flip through. It's not very educational, but it has some good pointers about self-acceptance and being unique. The style of the book is like a collage with pictures and articles. I wouldn't use it as a main source to teach self-esteem, but if it's great for a teenager to flip through.
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