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===Literature=== * According to [[Julia Voss]],<ref name="faz">Julia Voss, [https://www.faz.net/s/Rub71E8665493FD4CB29D4E0759DF21C32C/Doc~E63B66F19501A41828F6A22377304DC05~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html "Jim Knopf rettet die Evolutionstheorie"] ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (16 December 2008). Retrieved 31 July 2011 {{in lang|de}}</ref> the German children's book, ''Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer'' by [[Michael Ende]], translated into English as ''[[Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver]]'', was based on Jemmy Button. Ende, who grew up in [[Nazi Germany]], wanted to write a story that provided a contrast to [[Adolf Hitler]]'s [[Nazism and race|racist ideology]] and misuse of Darwin's theories of evolution.<ref>Martin Wittmann, [http://www.focus.de/kultur/buecher/jim-knopf-wird-50-nazis-raus-aus-lummerland_aid_539421.html "Nazis raus aus Lummerland"] ''Fokus'' magazine (9 August 2010). Retrieved 31 July 2011 {{in lang|de}}</ref> Ende's 1960 novel became one of the most successful children's books in postwar Germany<ref name="faz"/> and won the [[Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis]] in 1961. *Jemmy Button appears in Argentine novelist [[Sylvia Iparraguirre]]'s ''Tierra del Fuego'', which won the 2000 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. * Jemmy appears in [[Harry Thompson]]'s debut novel ''[[This Thing of Darkness]]'' (2005). * Jemmy features prominently in "Notes From the Scientific Record" in [[James Rollins]]' tenth [[Sigma Force]] novel, ''The 6th Extinction'' (2014). * ''Jemmy Button'' is the name of a novel by the Chilean writer [[Benjamín Subercaseaux]].
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