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From: Hollis Rudiger <hmrudiger>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:23:13 -0500
A Thousand Ships
is AWESOME, both the art and story are superb, and there is a lot to chew on re: world history. It is historically (mythologically??) accurate and has really thorough endmatters including a glossary, a geneology, (which would have made my ninth grade reading of Hamilton's mythoilogy a whole lot less painful!) and the longest bibliography I ever seen in a graphic novel. THIS is literature. I really appreciated the afterward by the author in which he explains the evolution of the story and the challenges to the historian to find out what really happened, and to trace the contributions of the co-creators of the myth throught history. He writes that "Greek mythology is hopelessly convoluted and contradictory," and that he "get(s) a kick out of trying to sort it out." What better motiovation for any kind of scholarship or schooling?
Just a note, however, that there is some sexual content, and I would not recommend it for elementary aged children.
The good news is there will eventually be 7 titles in the Age of Bronze series
Hollis Rudiger, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
hmrudiger at education.wisc.edu Voice: 608&3930 Fax: 608&2I33 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Wed 14 Apr 2004 07:23:13 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:23:13 -0500
A Thousand Ships
is AWESOME, both the art and story are superb, and there is a lot to chew on re: world history. It is historically (mythologically??) accurate and has really thorough endmatters including a glossary, a geneology, (which would have made my ninth grade reading of Hamilton's mythoilogy a whole lot less painful!) and the longest bibliography I ever seen in a graphic novel. THIS is literature. I really appreciated the afterward by the author in which he explains the evolution of the story and the challenges to the historian to find out what really happened, and to trace the contributions of the co-creators of the myth throught history. He writes that "Greek mythology is hopelessly convoluted and contradictory," and that he "get(s) a kick out of trying to sort it out." What better motiovation for any kind of scholarship or schooling?
Just a note, however, that there is some sexual content, and I would not recommend it for elementary aged children.
The good news is there will eventually be 7 titles in the Age of Bronze series
Hollis Rudiger, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
hmrudiger at education.wisc.edu Voice: 608&3930 Fax: 608&2I33 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Wed 14 Apr 2004 07:23:13 AM CDT
