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Sto caricando le informazioni... Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers) (edizione 2015)di Don Brown (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaDrowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans di Don Brown
2000s: America (8) Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Deeply sad, and yet a necessary piece of our understanding of modern history in America. ( ) I was not sure how to feel about a graphic novel that depicted Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. Would it be tastefully done? Would there be a political message? Would it romanticize or would it dramatize? I must confess that in the end, there was a little bit of all the above. I appreciated the authenticity it shared about events. HOWEVER while there were lists of sources at the back of the book (including when they directly quoted and/or borrowed ideas), this was not known to the reader. I wanted to know more about their primary sources. (But that's just the grad school nerd in me) I knew there would be a political slant and sure enough there was. Bashing Bush (who yes, perhaps did not respond as he should have all the time) was prevalent. It also tugged on heartstrings about people who could not evacuate, the animals, etc. etc. The sequential art in grays, blues, and browns seemed appropo for depicting a hurricane. The font style reminded me of political cartoons which actually worked for this book. For young adults, I think this is a good nonfiction graphic novel. Especially when you want to introduce them to nonfiction ;) This book would be good for intermediate and middle grade levels. It could be used as an introduction to a conversation or lesson about hurricane Katrina. The book is the story of hurricane Katrina, it talks about the weather events that led up to the event, the struggle that people who didn't evacuate faced, as well as the rescue efforts that were put into saving New Orleans. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage -- and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Don Brown's kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)363.34Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Other social problems and services Other Public Safety Concerns Disasters (natural and otherwise)Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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