JACQUES COUSTEAU

by Genie Iverson ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 23, 1976

Seven-year-old Jacques-Yves Cousteau floated on his back off shore."" . . . At ten he played stickball in New York. . . . That summer he made diving safer for the other boys at a Vermont camp. . . . Back in France, he buys a movie camera. . . enters the Naval Academy has a car accident. . . marries. . . goes to war. . . . It isn't only the sentences that are choppy as Cousteau's early years jerk by in what we can only call a family album approach to biography. Even Iverson can't make the invention of the aqualung, the peaceful invasion of the ocean depths, and the first diving-saucer tour of the sea floor totally drab, but as the later achievements reel by in ever more rapid order, we miss more than the color photography; Iverson's flat phrases blowing the horn for Cousteau can't approach that familiar French-accented voice-over.

Pub Date: March 23, 1976

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: 64

Publisher: Putnam

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1976

Categories: CHILDREN'S