remembering the titanic by frieda wishinsky

by Peter Ferguson, the final volume of the fantasy/mystery series A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle, in which a girl’s dying grandmother sets in motion an unusual adventure The Quick Fix by Jack D. Other reproduction is prohibited without permission.Amulet goes into the woods for The Sisters Grimm: Book 9 by Michael Buckley, illus. Use is permitted only if this copyright notice is maintained. On this title or this review, send mail to © the Manitoba Library Association. Robert Groberman is a grade two teacher at Kirkbride Elementary School in Surrey, BC. Readers new to the story will receive a full retelling. Those who are interested will find that the pieces of the story they may have heard about will fit together to make a coherent story. This book will easily explain to young readers a story that is now 100 years old. Final pages introduce readers to the final living survivor of the ship and to movie posters for the two most famous motion picture accounts of the story. She than tells readers about the modern expeditions by Robert Ballard to find the wreck of the Titanic with photos of what he found.

In addition to relating the story of the sinking of the ship, author Wishinsky relates and illustrates with photos and drawings the rescue of survivors. Where photographs of the sinking, itself, do not exist, Wishinsky uses a graphic from the movie Titanic to illustrate the rush to the lifeboats and likely confusion that occurred at that place. Wishinsky’s use of excellent period pictures also helps young readers to appreciate the facts she relates about the size and luxury of the Titanic. Though Wishinsky’s using comparative language to describe the size of the ship as 'bigger than a fifteen story building!' and explaining the differences between first, second and third classes, we immediately understand that this was not the kind of travel that we know today. In her new fact-based account of the Titanic disaster, Frieda Wishinsky speaks with the voice of an author who is very aware of her young audience whose members may have not previous knowledge of a story that is so well known to older readers. That was only enough for a little over half of the passengers. The law of the sea in those days didn't require any more than 16 lifeboats. And worst of all, there weren't enough lifeboats for everyone aboard. The compartments that were supposed to hold back water failed. New York, NY: Scholastic (Distributed in Canada by Scholastic Canada), 2012.

Remembering the titanic by frieda wishinsky