Thursday, June 9, 2022

Bill, The Boy Wonder review by Emma

Title of the Book: Bill, The Boy Wonder 
 Author Name: Marc Tyler Nobleman 
Reviewer's Name: Emma 
Publisher: CharlesBridge 
 Date of Publication: 2012 
 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 


This book has been one of the most interestingly paced and written books I have ever read. The story starts off with the first event of the origin tale of The Batman. It starts off with Milton Finger creating a new identity for himself ( changing his name to Bill) so that he would not face job discrimination. He was Jewish and in 1933, there was a lot of Anti- Semitism so he did not want to be discriminated against, especially in the career world as this was during the great depression and his family had been forced to close down their tailor shop. Long story short, they needed all the help and money they could get. This book follows Bill, who is never credited when on the topic of Batman, as he has experiences that eventually lead him to helping create the comic that would inspire so many films and franchises years and years later. 

I think that this book is a good fit for elementary school students who are learning to broaden their vocabularies but aren’t quite at an amazing level yet. This book has words that are now in smaller sentences. They are good for trying to help kids read more complex sentences and build foundations for it. However, the fact is that some kids will not be able to understand them quite yet. This book is a good fit for them as well because it has illustrations on every single page and they’ll still be able to understand what is going on. I also think that this book is a very good way to teach kids about perseverance. Throughout the story, it is clear that no Bill never gave up, even after being faced with so many hardships and overcoming so many obstacles. This is a very big part of the IB learner profile and is a great lesson for children from a young age.

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