Interested readers will get more from Diana Preston’s Remember the Lusitania! (2003).Īntics both instructive and embarrassing ensue after a mysterious package left on their doorstep brings a Founding Father into the lives of two modern children. Holbourn.Īrty illustrations and a turgid, purpose-driven narrative waste this opportunity to highlight a major tragedy in its centennial year. The author closes with a note on the real Avis and Prof. Dawson’s high-contrast black-and-white scenes add a little suspense, but their plotline is at best marginally relevant to the main one, and they are so cramped and cropped that the action in them is hard to follow. Along the way, Wishinsky shovels in ominous references to U-boats, an angry refusal by the ship’s captain to hold lifeboat drills, the disappearance of the ship’s cat and so many other hints of impending catastrophe that the torpedoes’ eventual arrival comes as more of a relief than a shock. Holbourn, a genial fellow traveler who regales her with a magical tale of a young castaway facing a giant and a “bogeyman.” This nested story is related by Dawson in interspersed sections of wordless sequential panels.
Naming her title character and other cast members after actual passengers, Wishinsky trots 12-year-old Avis over several days through a purposeful ship’s tour that takes her from bustling galley to common areas of all three classes.
If, that is, they can get through the narrative without foundering on the nearly continual foreshadowing that clogs its pages. Contributors: Frieda Wishinsky - Author.Readers who think that the Titanic was the only great ocean liner that ever sank will find this fictionalized eyewitness account of the torpedoed Lusitania’s last voyage a revelation. Format: Hardcoverĭescription #3 by Barnes & Noble - source media: Categories: Scholastic Reader Series->Level 3->Children's fiction. Full-color photographs throughout and clearly leveled text make history come alive for younger readers.ĭescription #2 by Barnes & Noble: Categories: Scholastic Reader Series->Level 3->Children's fiction. Read about Robert Ballard's triumphant discovery of the wreck 73 years later and what's been discovered since. Find out what life was like aboard the ship and meet some of the passengers and the crew. This simple reader tells the story of the TITANIC for the 100th anniversary of its tragic voyage. Scholastic Reader Level 3: Remembering the Titanicġ11 Used! | New! from $0.01 (as of 01:50 PST)Ī brand-new reader for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
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