Name: danielle clason's review of Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds
Item: Ain't Burned All the Bright
Rating: 5
Author: danielle clason

Jason Reynolds

Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds. Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word, especially NOW. And so for anyone who didn’t really know what it means to not be able to breathe, REALLY breathe, for generations, now you know. And those who already do, you’ll be nodding yep yep, that is exactly how it is.

Ain't Burned All the Bright

danielle clason

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fatru tamzil

Remarkable, uniquely formatted book. Reads like poetry and tells a creative story.

Charlie Winchester 

Melissa Palmer

This book had an interesting format....sort of looked like images glued to a scrapbook. The illustrations are nice. I think that reluctant readers would enjoy that there are only a few words on each page. But the Reynolds message is still there...the storyline deals with a father being ill...and how the family is dealing with it.

Daymaris Arca

Read it w ARLINE in the park. Finished it in 30 mins. I even teared up. So good!!

Kelsey Munson

Each page it's own work of art. 
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

Joycelyn Ghansah

I loved it. "Finding breathe between the pages"

Stef

and why the news won't change the story
and why the story won't change into something other than the every-hour rerun 

Love the poem and love the art too.

Emily Perkovich

Omggggggg, so good. This said so much in so few words. The artwork works so perfectly with this.

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