Titanic: Voices from the Disaster (Scholastic Focus)
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Award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson pieces together the harrowing, tragic story of the TITANIC in this Sibert Honor volume. Now in paperback! In this award-winning book, critically acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson weaves together the voices and stories of real TITANIC survivors and witnesses to the disaster -- from the stewardess Violet Jessop to Captain Arthur Rostron of the CARPATHIA, who came to the rescue of the sinking ship. Packed with heartstopping action, devastating drama, fascinating historical details, loads of archival photographs on almost every page, quotes from primary sources, and painstaking back matter, this gripping story, which follows the TITANIC and its passengers from the ship's celebrated launch at Belfast to her cataclysmic icy end, is sure to thrill and move readers. Review: Bring history to life and love the experience! - My entire family (young children, upper elementary children, and adults) was captivated by this audio book. Well done technically with many narrators; an absolute pleasure to listen to. The storyline itself uses many quotes from Titanic passengers and weaves together stories of individual passengers (often using their own words from letters or subsequent testimony) to really bring the sinking of the Titanic to life. We learned so much about the Titanic through listening to this book that we ended up doing our own additional research, including library books and videos, to see pictures of the ship and passengers described in the book. Excellent for anyone with an interest in history. Also makes an excellent unit study for homeschoolers. (Many, many free additional resources are available online and in the library.) History presented like this is definitely not boring! Enliven the minds of your entire family with this audiobook. I wish we could find many, many more audiobooks to bring other historical events to life in such a memorable and enjoyable way. Highly recommended! Review: Five Stars - Excellent!!
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| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 395 Reviews |
M**7
Bring history to life and love the experience!
My entire family (young children, upper elementary children, and adults) was captivated by this audio book. Well done technically with many narrators; an absolute pleasure to listen to. The storyline itself uses many quotes from Titanic passengers and weaves together stories of individual passengers (often using their own words from letters or subsequent testimony) to really bring the sinking of the Titanic to life. We learned so much about the Titanic through listening to this book that we ended up doing our own additional research, including library books and videos, to see pictures of the ship and passengers described in the book. Excellent for anyone with an interest in history. Also makes an excellent unit study for homeschoolers. (Many, many free additional resources are available online and in the library.) History presented like this is definitely not boring! Enliven the minds of your entire family with this audiobook. I wish we could find many, many more audiobooks to bring other historical events to life in such a memorable and enjoyable way. Highly recommended!
T**H
Five Stars
Excellent!!
F**L
Interesting personal experiences.
informative history
R**1
Great Reading---Very little photography.
I am very pleased with the text but a bit disappointed by the lack of photographs. I purchased this book for a friend as a gift and am very glad that I purchased two other volumes which were mainly photographic in nature to accompany this volume. I will say that since I purchased the other two books, it wasn't quite the disappointment it would have been if I had only purchased this one book. Great for reading but if you want photographs, look elsewhere.
T**Y
Insightful
This book gives further insight to the disaster. Many of the survivor stories i had never seen. Titanic buffs really need to read this
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