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From: Jonathan Hunt <jhunt24>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:53:30
As much as I liked WE WERE THERE, TOO! by Phillip Hoose (and I liked it a lot) I do think the documentation will be its Achilles heel as a Sibert contender. And one might say the same of SHIPWRECKED by Rhoda Blumberg
(which my students and I enjoyed enormously). In any case, I expect both to also be strong contenders for NCTE's Orbis Pictus Award.
COUNTDOWN TO INDEPENDENCE by Natalie Bober is as impressive as anything written this year, and I hope that not only the Sibert committee, but also the Printz and Newbery committees consider this title. I don't know that this is any more challenging than SIR WALTER RALEGH, but it certainly lives up to the same high standards set by that title: meticulous research, scrupulous documentation, and a lively, engaging narrative. Always a great biographer, Bober has outdone herself here with this story of the years prior to the American Revolution. A must for teachers and students of American history.
I'm also quite fond of THE COD'S TALE by Mark Kurlansky, illustrated by S.D. Schindler. This is a world history with an economic theme bookended by science (and thus a great cross-curricular book for older students). Primary sources as sidebars, maps, timelines, and a bibliography are included. The illustrations add a lightly comical touch, convey big jumps in time from spread to spread, and overall do a great job of supporting the text (i.e. the symbolic picture of the trade between New England and the Basques) and even adding information (i.e. the salting process). Very nice.
Jonathan
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Received on Wed 05 Dec 2001 03:53:30 PM CST
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:53:30
As much as I liked WE WERE THERE, TOO! by Phillip Hoose (and I liked it a lot) I do think the documentation will be its Achilles heel as a Sibert contender. And one might say the same of SHIPWRECKED by Rhoda Blumberg
(which my students and I enjoyed enormously). In any case, I expect both to also be strong contenders for NCTE's Orbis Pictus Award.
COUNTDOWN TO INDEPENDENCE by Natalie Bober is as impressive as anything written this year, and I hope that not only the Sibert committee, but also the Printz and Newbery committees consider this title. I don't know that this is any more challenging than SIR WALTER RALEGH, but it certainly lives up to the same high standards set by that title: meticulous research, scrupulous documentation, and a lively, engaging narrative. Always a great biographer, Bober has outdone herself here with this story of the years prior to the American Revolution. A must for teachers and students of American history.
I'm also quite fond of THE COD'S TALE by Mark Kurlansky, illustrated by S.D. Schindler. This is a world history with an economic theme bookended by science (and thus a great cross-curricular book for older students). Primary sources as sidebars, maps, timelines, and a bibliography are included. The illustrations add a lightly comical touch, convey big jumps in time from spread to spread, and overall do a great job of supporting the text (i.e. the symbolic picture of the trade between New England and the Basques) and even adding information (i.e. the salting process). Very nice.
Jonathan
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