Allan Wolf
Allan Wolf is an award-winning children's and young adult novelist, poet, educator, and performer. His novels told in verse include New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery and Zane's Trace. His poetry books include Immersed in Verse, The Blood-Hungry Spleen and Other Poems about our...
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Allan Wolf is an award-winning children's and young adult novelist, poet, educator, and performer. His novels told in verse include New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery and Zane's Trace. His poetry books include Immersed in Verse, The Blood-Hungry Spleen and Other Poems about our Parts, and More Than Friends: Poems From Him and Her. Allan is former Educational Director for Poetry Alive!, a national touring company that presents theatrical poetry shows for all ages. He lives in Asheville with his wife and three children and can recite hundreds of poems from memory.
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Rating: To ComeI am beyond excited to read this extremely unique book about the legendary Titanic. It is told in 24 point of views including a ship rat and the tragic iceberg. The entire story is told as a very long free-verse poem with makes the story even more intriguing. I have always been fas...
This book was brilliant. Interesting - even enchanting at times - and succinct, but beautifully poetic, too.I don't have the words to express the awe this book created for me. Three specific pages come to mind as being nearly perfect: Mr. Andrews as the ship was going down; the pages depicting the...
A slow start for me, with poems that could just as well have been prose, and the iceberg voice is a little cheesy. Gladly the quality got better and the characters kept me coming back into the book. I definitely got a mite teary eyed at one point. It doesn't hurt that the excellent Jon Klassen ill...
This is a really interesting and haunting look at the Titanic disaster. With so many voices and perspectives, it's easy to find people to relate to, which makes the book very arresting. I found myself reading Encyclopedia Titanica while I read, because the book got me so interested in the topic.
Everyone knows the story. An iceberg. A boat. 1,500 lives lost. This is the story that one hundred years later (April 2012 marks the centennial of the sinking) so fascinates that it's difficult to keep Titanic books on library shelves. It's one of those nonfiction sections every Children's Libr...
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