{"id":188,"date":"2008-09-01T09:25:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T14:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/188"},"modified":"2008-09-01T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T14:25:19","slug":"nonfiction-monday-when-i-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2008\/09\/01\/nonfiction-monday-when-i-grow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonfiction Monday &#8211; When I Grow Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2008\/09\/growup.jpg\" title=\"growup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2008\/09\/growup.jpg\" alt=\"growup.jpg\" height=\"198\" width=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In honor of Labor Day, I thought it appropriate to review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-Grow-Up-Interesting-Occupations\/dp\/0805077170\">When I Grow Up: <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-Grow-Up-Interesting-Occupations\/dp\/0805077170\">A Young Person&#8217;s Guide to Interesting and Unusual Occupations<\/a> by Jessica Loy.<em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/results.asp?ATH=Jessica+Loy\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I was growing up, I never dreamed about &#8220;normal&#8221; occupations. Doctor, lawyer, teacher and the like were not on my list. I longed to work with Jacques Cousteau and study marine mammals, study the fossil record of human evolution with the Leakey&#8217;s, or work in animal breeding and conservation at a zoo. My dream jobs grew largely out of reading about the work of famous scientists. I wanted to have those same adventures and make the same kinds of discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Young people today can learn about a whole host of jobs on television and online. However, it&#8217;s the printed page that still holds me captive, and a means for learning I hope young people will continue to use. Jessica Loy&#8217;s new book <em>When I Grow Up<\/em> is a winning entry in this category. Loy has done a fine job of capturing men, women and families in her profiles, and has selected occupations that are sure to encourage readers to &#8220;think outside the box&#8221; when it comes to career options. The book begins this way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How do we decide what we want to be when we grow up? We might get ideas from our families and teachers or from people we admire.<\/p>\n<p>Inside you will find fourteen careers that began as a dreams and have turned into lifelong pursuits. Many started as childhood interests. Maybe there is something you love to do that will someday become your career.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many possibilities!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fourteen careers profiled include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entomologist<\/li>\n<li>Alpaca Farmers<\/li>\n<li>Archaeologist<\/li>\n<li>Master Cheese Maker<\/li>\n<li>Research Biologist<\/li>\n<li>Game Designer<\/li>\n<li>Chocolatier<\/li>\n<li>Percussionist<\/li>\n<li>Lobsterman (actually a woman!)<\/li>\n<li>Guitar Makers<\/li>\n<li>Kite Designer<\/li>\n<li>Pet Photographer<\/li>\n<li>Set Designer<\/li>\n<li>Robotics Engineer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each occupation is described through the profile of a person who actually holds that job. The pages are filled with photographs of the person at work. There is a tremendous amount of information on each occupation&#8217;s double-page spread. The entry for Alpaca Farmers profiles a family in New York. There are photos of the family and the alpacas, alpacas being sheared, and a very interesting series of photos and captions about making yarn from alpaca fiber. After reading nearly every entry I found myself nodding my heading and thinking, &#8220;Now <em>THAT<\/em> would be a cool job!&#8221; I think young readers will feel the same way.<\/p>\n<p>The book ends with contact information for each occupation profiled, complete with home\/work addresses (should readers care to send mail the &#8220;old-fashioned&#8221; way) and web sites. The facing page provides a list of summer camps ideas that &#8220;offer an opportunity for kids to explore potential career paths.&#8221; Included is information for space camp, culinary camp, robot camp, computer camp and many more ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Overall this is a well-researched, highly informative and engaging read. I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-Grow-Up-Interesting-Occupations\/dp\/0805077170\">When I Grow Up: <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-Grow-Up-Interesting-Occupations\/dp\/0805077170\">A Young Person&#8217;s Guide to Interesting and Unusual Occupations<\/a> <strong><br \/>\nAuthor: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/followthetrail.tripod.com\/html\/author.html\">Jessica Loy<\/a><strong><br \/>\nPublisher: <\/strong>Henry Holt<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date: <\/strong>2008<br \/>\n<strong>Pages: <\/strong>40 pages<br \/>\n<strong>Grades:<\/strong> 4-8<strong><br \/>\nISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0805077179<br \/>\n<strong>Source of Book:<\/strong> Review copy received from publisher.<\/p>\n<p>This post was written for <a href=\"http:\/\/6traits.wordpress.com\/nonfiction-monday\/\">Nonfiction Monday<\/a>. Head on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/6traits.wordpress.com\/\">Anastasia Suen&#039;s blog<\/a> and check out all the great posts highlighting <a href=\"http:\/\/6traits.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/01\/nonfiction-monday-round-up-31\/\">nonfiction this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Labor Day, I thought it appropriate to review When I Grow Up: A Young Person&#8217;s Guide to Interesting and Unusual Occupations by Jessica Loy. When I was growing up, I never dreamed about &#8220;normal&#8221; occupations. Doctor, lawyer, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2008\/09\/01\/nonfiction-monday-when-i-grow-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1142,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-nonfiction-monday","category-social-studies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}