Bono is one of the “People to Know Today”
We had a fun time reviewing the new Bono biography. This one, though, is the first for kids. My 8-year -old daughter, Madeline, writes book responses as school assignments in which she has to tell something she learned from the beginning, middle and end of the book. So she wrote down the facts she learned and then typed out some sentences to get us started.
I prompted her with some more questions to get her to explain or clarify some things and then she dictated her new sentences to me and I typed them in. (She was impressed with how fast I could type, and I was impressed by how well she understood the book!) We worked on the introduction together and then she came up with the author questions on her own. (Well done, Maddie! What’s our next assignment?)
The book is a great introduction to this “rock start with a conscience.” It’s the result of careful research on the part of the author, and it says a little about each stage of Bono’s life. There are some good pictures, too. (Gotta have lots of those for the kiddies.)
Shout-out to @U2 staffer/photographer Phil Romans for having one of his photos in the book. Hint: it’s of a famous Dublin hearing aid store.
And tell me, if you were a kid, what would you think about the man you’re seeing on the book cover?
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I wonder if Bono gets into all sort of wacky misadventures like Corduroy!
He does seem like the perfect character for a series of children’s books. Plenty of fuel for the imagination. I’m thinking he might be more like “Froggy” – a little unaware, very playful and focused on the moment, always doing things that cause him to be “more red in the face than green.”
In resonse to the question at the end with what kids think about Bono, my little sister is 10 and likes the music a lot. She makes fun of Bono, examples being when he dresses up as Mr. MacPhisto or he bites someones hand , but deep down she does like him and admires what he does which I’m pretty happy about.
I got a copy of the book in exchange for the use of the photo, and it is a fairly compressive book for the age group they are targeting.
Xanax cocktail….
Xanax. Xanax effect….