Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Homefront in World War II
by:
Penny Colman (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780517597910 (0517597918)
Publish date: February 21st 1995
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 120
Edition language: English
I couldn't get past the first chapter. I felt like the author believed I was a two year old. Every sentence contained only a few words. There were no compound or complex sentences anywhere. I felt talked down to. I felt lectured to in a monotone voice. The author couldn't make an explosion sound int...
This is an excellent example of the reason I didn't read many 'children's' history books when I was that age. I found them poorly written, talked down to their audience, and were generally not worth my time. I read books geared for people much older then myself because I learned something and wasn't...