by Mitch Frank ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2005
This very balanced presentation of the historical background to and causes of the age-old enmity between the two groups is suited to older students and adult readers alike. Frank’s account, laid out in a question-and-answer format, is clearly written but not simplistic. He discloses truths and the misconceptions that each side has about the other, and he finds fault on both sides as well. Readers will have no trouble understanding from this intelligent work that both groups have ample reason to lay deep historic, religious and ethnic claims to the small plot of land that is Israel and that there is justification for their various demands. The author, a reporter for Time, backs up his arguments about each side’s plight and profound distrust for the other with solid, unemotional, focused writing. Teachers, take note: This is an excellent springboard to current-events discussions. (maps, glossary, bibliography) (Nonfiction. 12+)
Pub Date: April 1, 2005
ISBN: 0-670-06032-1
Page Count: 160
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 2005
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Pub Date: Jan. 1, 2000
ISBN: 0-689-82118-2
Page Count: 48
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 1999
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by Taylor Morrison ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1999
It took four weeks for illustrations of scenes from the US’s Civil War battles to make it from the front lines to readers’ hands; Morrison (Cheetah, 1998, etc.) explains that process in his uniquely handsome book. Morrison introduces the fictional artist, William Forbes, commissioned by the fictional Burton’s Illustrated News to follow the Union Army into battle at Bull Run. Throughout the day’s fighting Forbes makes quick sketches; it is risky business, and he is often in mortal peril. That night he makes a more complete drawing, which is handed to a courier and taken back to the Burton offices. There, engravers set to work translating Forbes’s drawing to a grid of wood blocks (Morrison includes interesting incidentals along the way, giving the process its due). The images are converted to electrotype, whereafter it is finally ready for the operators and pressman. Shortly after that, the newsboys are seen hawking the illustrated weekly, containing Forbes’s image a mere month after the actual event. Morrison successfully renders the complexities of illustrating newspapers 150 years ago, and just as successfully conveys that in abandoning the wood block for the photograph, some of the art was sacrificed for speed. (glossary) (Picture book. 6-10)
Pub Date: April 1, 1999
ISBN: 0-395-91426-4
Page Count: 32
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1999
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