A review by devinsr
Josephine Baker by Jose-Luis Bocquet

uhhh not great. kinda disappointing. i didn’t enjoy the writing. it somehow seemed simultaneously too ambitious & not ambitious enough of a project. it was confusing how quickly the story jumped around. i feel like i could’ve learned the same amount (or more!) about josephine baker from just reading her wiki page. & as for the illustrations…at the very least the artist’s style didn’t work well. although it actually read more like she couldn’t figure out how to make her style work for illustrating black people…in a book about a black woman…so. overall, not awesome.