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Different Like Coco
from: Candlewick
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.92092
EAN: 9780763625481
ISBN: 0763625485
Label: Candlewick
Manufacturer: Candlewick
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 40
Publication Date: February 13, 2007
Publisher: Candlewick
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Studio: Candlewick
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Editorial Review:
The rags-to-riches story of Coco Chanel plays out in a wonderful picture-book biography as full of style and spirit as its heroine.Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was always different. And she vowed to prove that being different was an advantage! Poor, skinny, and orphaned, Coco stubbornly believed that she was as good as the wealthier girls of Paris. Tapping into her creativity and her sewing skills, she began making clothes that suited her (and her pocketbook) — and soon a new generation of independent working women craved her sleek, comfortable, and practical designs. Now an icon of fashion and culture, Coco Chanel continues to inspire young readers, showing just how far a person can come with spunk, determination, and flair.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Different. Yep, different. Different! Okay, we get it already.
Elizabeth Matthews, Different Like Coco (Candlewick Press, 2007)
Different Like Coco is a perfect book to illustrate one of the dead horses I am constantly beating, though I didn't realize it when I first put the book on the to-be-read list. The point? That message books are, with exceptions so few they don't matter in the greater scheme of things, infinitely inferior to books written with no overarching message in mind. Matthews wanted to make sure she got the point across that Coco ... Read More
Rating:  - A terrible role model
Coco Chanel was a heroin addict, vicious anti-semite, and Nazi "collaboratrice". She slept with men she didn't love to set herself up in the dress making business where she made a tidy sum peddling overpriced frocks to wealthy women. It mattered not a whit to her that there was a depression followed by the German occupation. If you want to write a biography of a French woman why not pick someone who actually contributed something of value to the world such as Heloise-- the medieval abbess with ... Read More
Rating: - Negative body image alert!
What an insidious little work this is! While trying to convince the reading public (mostly young girls, I suspect) that Coco was "unique" and "beautiful", all sorts of negative body image messages are foisted on the reader. Note, for example, five pages from the end, which reads:
"Women no longer wanted just to dress like Coco - they wanted to be just like Coco. Her distinctive beauty lay in an attitude, something that even the richest of socialites couldn't buy."
This ... Read More
Rating:  - REVELING IN CORSET-LESS CHIC
As Maurice Chevalier sang, "Thank Heaven for little girls" . . . at least we can thank Heaven for one who grew up with an independent spirit, and an imagination for corset-Less chic. Coco Chanel (1883-1971) said "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." The book's end papers reproduce other quotations from this fashion icon, including "Fashion is made to become unfashionable!"
Elizabeth Matthews has written a perfect Springtime fancy, and the pen & ink illustrations ... Read More
Rating: - Applause! Applause!
Children's non-fiction books have come a long way, not just in style but in subject matter. How great that Candlewick saw fit to publish a picture book biography of, astonishingly, someone the average child is probably unfamiliar with -- a woman who died long before the child was born, from a country not much studied in grade schools, representing a profession hardly mentioned at all: fashion designer. But Elizabeth Matthews, through text and pictures, has made Coco Chanel someone little girls (and open ... Read More
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