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YA Fanatic
YA Fanatic rated it 10 years ago
A great production of an audiobook. Different voices for each character, really fun music in between each monologue and a cool vibe when the monologue contained more than one character. The book itself didn't do much for me, but I'd easily give the audio a five star rating. Different characters f...
Bashara Likes Books
Bashara Likes Books rated it 11 years ago
The cover leads one to believe that this is a mere picture book of the great Benjamin Franklin and it *is* technically that, but it's much more really. Lavishly illustrated through out, this book is really a surprisingly detailed and rather lengthy and advanced biography. The age/grade range (ages...
Peace, Love & Books
Peace, Love & Books rated it 11 years ago
The story of the Amistad told through the perspective of a young girl who was a captive and was able to return to Africa. A wonderful work of historical fiction, elegantly written and illustrated.
What Perry Nodelman Is Reading, and Has Read.
See:http://pernodel.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/good-masters-sweet-ladies-voices-from-a-medieval-village/
Nutti's muses
Nutti's muses rated it 12 years ago
hated it
ereksonj
ereksonj rated it 12 years ago
This book has a very good cover, useful for judging. It reminds me of the 1960s Alton Kelley posters for groups like the Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane. Surprising for the book's size, Byrd presents a lot of information on Franklin. The illustrations are mostly representational, and done in a s...
JasonKoivu
JasonKoivu rated it 12 years ago
Good lord! Sweet jesus!The seventeen short skits of varying quality herein were created for school children...well specifically for one of those private schools with "The" before its name. You know, the ritzy titzy kind were it's a-okay if little Johnny skips his other classes for the rest of the da...
Bashara Likes Books
Bashara Likes Books rated it 12 years ago
For its intended purpose this is a truly remarkable book. The story goes that Schlitz (a school librarian) wrote this book as a means to help the students at her school study the Middle Ages. Each chapter contains a monologue or dialogue from the point of view of a medieval child from a variety of w...
Bashara Likes Books
Bashara Likes Books rated it 12 years ago
A nice kid-friendly biography on a rather mysterious, but fascinating historical figure. Krull does a nice job telling a story that will interest and engage kids. I think it is so important for kids to be exposed to non-western historical figures and realize, particularly, that the Middle Ages were ...
Andra
Andra rated it 12 years ago
I will disclose that I've never been a very avid reader of plays; even when they are fantastic, I have a more difficult time getting into them and sometimes appreciating them. It helps if I see or have seen them performed. Additionally, this book was so unique that it was very hard for me to get a g...
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