Blue Rose Wallpaper Biography
A former teacher and Headstart program worker in New York City who began her writing career penning fiction for young readers, Rose Blue has become a prolific author of nonfiction written with collaborator Corinne J. Naden that includes biographies of contemporary newsmakers and U.S. state and regional profiles, as well as books that span American social and political history. Reviewing two of Blue and Naden's books on the U.S. armed services—U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy—Booklist contributor Janice Del Negro called these volumes "well made, high-interest, and filled with easy-to-access information." Other nonfiction titles include Dred Scott: Person or Property?, which discusses the early eighteenth-century U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld slavery, and Mae Jemison: Out of This World, a profile of the first black American woman in space that Booklist contributor Carolyn Phelan dubbed "inviting" as well as "readable and colorful."
Blue and Naden's biographies examine the lives of individuals prominent in a wide spectrum of human endeavors: scientist Jonah Salk, First Lady Barbara Bush, politicians George W. Bush, Vladimir Lenin, Tony Blair, and Muammar Qaadafi, environmentalist John Muir, athletes Wilma Rudolph and Jerry Rice, and actors Nicholas Cage, Halle Berry, and Whoopi Goldberg are among the many individuals profiled for young report-writers. Reviewing Lenin, Booklist reviewer Gillian Engberg praised the coauthors' "clear, accessible language" and efforts to provide the background information necessary to a full understanding of the Soviet leader's life and communist ideology. In addition to profiling a sitting U.S. president and his wife, the collaborators also offer a unique view of day-to-day life at the White House, describing it from the perspective of the children who have lived in that historic building. The White House Kids, according to School Library Journal contributor Melissa Gross, features a "readable, chronological text [that] allows youngsters to contemplate antics such as roller skating down the halls of the White House or star gazing from the roof, as well as the realities of waiting to get an appointment to see the president and dating under the surveillance of the Secret Service." Booklist reviewer Carolyn Phelan called The White House Kids "an intriguing sidelight on presidential history."
In addition to biographies, Naden and Blue provide an overview of regional U.S. history in their contributions to the "Exploring the Americas" series, which provides young armchair travelers with maps, histories, descriptions, and a who's who inhabiting various regions of the Americas. Titles in the series include Exploring the Western Mountains, which describes the harsh terrain encountered by the explorers who traveled in the Rocky Mountain region of North America, and Exploring South America, Exploring the Mississippi River Valley, and Exploring the Arctic. Praising Exploring the Arctic in School Library Journal, Eldon Younce noted that the coauthors present a resource that is "serviceable" and "accurate."
Often featuring young protagonists growing up in the inner city, Blue's many works of fiction focus on "children burdened by difficulties they can't understand," ac-cording to a Publishers Weekly contributor. Her stories—most published during the 1970s and 1980s–cover a wide range of topics—from illiteracy, gang violence, and racial intolerance to interfamily issues of divorce and dealing with elderly relatives' senility. Blue's 1979 novel Cold Rain on the Water, a story of Russian immigrants, was selected a best book of the year by the National Council for the Social Studies.
"I knew I wanted to be a writer since Miss Higgens called on me to read my stories to the first grade while she marked papers," Blue once told SATA. "I attended Bank Street College of Education in order to earn a master's degree and teaching license—after all, the rent must be paid. One instructor, a well-known scholar, gave a wonderful course in children's literature. After diligently reading an assignment, I said, 'When do we get to read the really good, realistic children's books?' She replied, 'We've read nearly everything ever written.' I said, 'I can do better than that.' I wrote A Quiet Place, and 'the rest is history.'"
A Quiet Place focuses on an African-American boy who loves to read. When the library in Matthew's ghetto neighborhood is replaced by a book mobile, the boy must search for a new quiet place to read. Reading is also central to Me and Einstein: Breaking through the Reading Barrier, about a boy named Bobby who has dyslexia. Bobby is taunted by his school friends and put in a class for mentally handicapped and emotionally disturbed students until the boy's problem is diagnosed and his educational needs are met.
Dealing with family problems, A Month of Sundays follows Jeffrey, a boy whose parents have recently divorced, as he moves to a new home in the city. His mother now works and has little time for him, and Jeffrey sees his father only on Sundays. Making new friends and talking things over with his father, Jeffrey eventually learns to adjust to his new situation. Parental problems can also lead to more serious troubles for children, as Blue shows in her story, The Yo-Yo Kid, about teenager Jim, whose alcoholic mother keeps moving the family from home to home. In an attempt to gain stability, Jim joins a gang and is ultimately pushed to commit violence. Zena Sutherland, reviewing A Month of Sundays for the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, called the work "sensible and realistic in its evaluation of adjustment to change," while Lael Scott wrote in the New York Times Book Review that Jeffrey is "a believable child with whom most children can easily identify."
In Grandma Didn't Wave Back a girl named Debbie tries to cope with the fact that her grandmother is becoming senile. Debbie remembers fondly how her grandmother would always wave to her from the window whenever she returned from school and would give her and her friends treats. But now Grandma stares off into space more and more and doesn't seem to be herself. Debbie's parents talk about putting Grandma in an assisted living home, and her friends start calling the woman a crazy old lady. In the end, it is Grandma who is able to explain best what is happening to her and help Debbie accept and understand what sometimes happens when people age. A Booklist contributor called Grandma Didn't Wave Back a "moving story," one that treats its subject "with honesty and understanding," and a reviewer for Publishers Weekly deemed the novel a "well-told" tale about "believable people
A former teacher and Headstart program worker in New York City who began her writing career penning fiction for young readers, Rose Blue has become a prolific author of nonfiction written with collaborator Corinne J. Naden that includes biographies of contemporary newsmakers and U.S. state and regional profiles, as well as books that span American social and political history. Reviewing two of Blue and Naden's books on the U.S. armed services—U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy—Booklist contributor Janice Del Negro called these volumes "well made, high-interest, and filled with easy-to-access information." Other nonfiction titles include Dred Scott: Person or Property?, which discusses the early eighteenth-century U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld slavery, and Mae Jemison: Out of This World, a profile of the first black American woman in space that Booklist contributor Carolyn Phelan dubbed "inviting" as well as "readable and colorful."
Blue and Naden's biographies examine the lives of individuals prominent in a wide spectrum of human endeavors: scientist Jonah Salk, First Lady Barbara Bush, politicians George W. Bush, Vladimir Lenin, Tony Blair, and Muammar Qaadafi, environmentalist John Muir, athletes Wilma Rudolph and Jerry Rice, and actors Nicholas Cage, Halle Berry, and Whoopi Goldberg are among the many individuals profiled for young report-writers. Reviewing Lenin, Booklist reviewer Gillian Engberg praised the coauthors' "clear, accessible language" and efforts to provide the background information necessary to a full understanding of the Soviet leader's life and communist ideology. In addition to profiling a sitting U.S. president and his wife, the collaborators also offer a unique view of day-to-day life at the White House, describing it from the perspective of the children who have lived in that historic building. The White House Kids, according to School Library Journal contributor Melissa Gross, features a "readable, chronological text [that] allows youngsters to contemplate antics such as roller skating down the halls of the White House or star gazing from the roof, as well as the realities of waiting to get an appointment to see the president and dating under the surveillance of the Secret Service." Booklist reviewer Carolyn Phelan called The White House Kids "an intriguing sidelight on presidential history."
In addition to biographies, Naden and Blue provide an overview of regional U.S. history in their contributions to the "Exploring the Americas" series, which provides young armchair travelers with maps, histories, descriptions, and a who's who inhabiting various regions of the Americas. Titles in the series include Exploring the Western Mountains, which describes the harsh terrain encountered by the explorers who traveled in the Rocky Mountain region of North America, and Exploring South America, Exploring the Mississippi River Valley, and Exploring the Arctic. Praising Exploring the Arctic in School Library Journal, Eldon Younce noted that the coauthors present a resource that is "serviceable" and "accurate."
Often featuring young protagonists growing up in the inner city, Blue's many works of fiction focus on "children burdened by difficulties they can't understand," ac-cording to a Publishers Weekly contributor. Her stories—most published during the 1970s and 1980s–cover a wide range of topics—from illiteracy, gang violence, and racial intolerance to interfamily issues of divorce and dealing with elderly relatives' senility. Blue's 1979 novel Cold Rain on the Water, a story of Russian immigrants, was selected a best book of the year by the National Council for the Social Studies.
"I knew I wanted to be a writer since Miss Higgens called on me to read my stories to the first grade while she marked papers," Blue once told SATA. "I attended Bank Street College of Education in order to earn a master's degree and teaching license—after all, the rent must be paid. One instructor, a well-known scholar, gave a wonderful course in children's literature. After diligently reading an assignment, I said, 'When do we get to read the really good, realistic children's books?' She replied, 'We've read nearly everything ever written.' I said, 'I can do better than that.' I wrote A Quiet Place, and 'the rest is history.'"
A Quiet Place focuses on an African-American boy who loves to read. When the library in Matthew's ghetto neighborhood is replaced by a book mobile, the boy must search for a new quiet place to read. Reading is also central to Me and Einstein: Breaking through the Reading Barrier, about a boy named Bobby who has dyslexia. Bobby is taunted by his school friends and put in a class for mentally handicapped and emotionally disturbed students until the boy's problem is diagnosed and his educational needs are met.
Dealing with family problems, A Month of Sundays follows Jeffrey, a boy whose parents have recently divorced, as he moves to a new home in the city. His mother now works and has little time for him, and Jeffrey sees his father only on Sundays. Making new friends and talking things over with his father, Jeffrey eventually learns to adjust to his new situation. Parental problems can also lead to more serious troubles for children, as Blue shows in her story, The Yo-Yo Kid, about teenager Jim, whose alcoholic mother keeps moving the family from home to home. In an attempt to gain stability, Jim joins a gang and is ultimately pushed to commit violence. Zena Sutherland, reviewing A Month of Sundays for the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, called the work "sensible and realistic in its evaluation of adjustment to change," while Lael Scott wrote in the New York Times Book Review that Jeffrey is "a believable child with whom most children can easily identify."
In Grandma Didn't Wave Back a girl named Debbie tries to cope with the fact that her grandmother is becoming senile. Debbie remembers fondly how her grandmother would always wave to her from the window whenever she returned from school and would give her and her friends treats. But now Grandma stares off into space more and more and doesn't seem to be herself. Debbie's parents talk about putting Grandma in an assisted living home, and her friends start calling the woman a crazy old lady. In the end, it is Grandma who is able to explain best what is happening to her and help Debbie accept and understand what sometimes happens when people age. A Booklist contributor called Grandma Didn't Wave Back a "moving story," one that treats its subject "with honesty and understanding," and a reviewer for Publishers Weekly deemed the novel a "well-told" tale about "believable people
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