{"id":49161,"date":"2022-04-07T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=49161"},"modified":"2022-04-02T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T16:03:12","slug":"aint-burned-all-the-bright-by-jason-reynolds-illustrated-by-jason-griffin-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/aint-burned-all-the-bright-by-jason-reynolds-illustrated-by-jason-griffin-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Jason Griffin [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong>
\nVirtuoso Jason Reynolds\u2019 latest is another chameleonic masterpiece, brilliantly consumable in various mediums, each providing transporting rewards. The original collaboration, conceived between best friends Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin, works best on the page: Reynolds\u2019 glorious words \u2013 cut-out phrases and sentences \u2013 laid over Griffin\u2019s stupendous collaged spreads create a visually spectacular literary feast.<\/p>\n

In the ears, Reynolds\u2019 words carry the narration in one of the most inventive recent audiobook adaptations\/presentations: the book gets read twice, first by Reynolds alone, then by a full cast (Nile Bullock, Tatum Marylin Hall, JaQwan J. Kelly, DePre Owens). The former will surely be appreciated by purists, with Reynolds intimately enhancing and amplifying every phrase, every pause, every beat exactly as he intended. The latter repeats the exact same text, yet the experience turns the familiar into an utterly altered experience with multiple voices ciphering contrasting interpretations.<\/p>\n

Both, of course, resonate.\u00a0And yet Reynolds\u2019 embodiment of his three \u201cBreaths\u201d \u2013 a boy observing his TV news-addicted mother, video-gaming brother, and protest-planning sister; the boy\u2019s ill, coughing father separated in another room; the boy struggling to breathe amidst systemic oppression but finding solace among family \u2013 feels like an all-encompassing embrace.<\/p>\n

A final treat: a provenance-revealing conversation between Reynolds and Griffin \u2013 \u201cthat\u2019s all\u201d \u2013 appends the recording.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Media,” Booklist<\/em>, March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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