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Laddar... The Secret Project (utgåvan 2017)av Jonah Winter (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. The clock is ticking on the secret project called “the gadget.” This intriguing account of shadowy figures building the first atomic bomb captures the culture and context of the times. Includes Author’s Note, Further Reading. Age: primary / intermediate Genre: historical This book would be a great book to have in the classroom library for the kids to read after they are done with an assignment. It is informational without being too graphic, it focuses on the process of making the bomb and the scientists instead of the war. Intermediate; Historical; This book is a creatively told story about the creation of the first atomic bomb. The illustrations are beautiful and the author does a great job of describing the story without revealing what it is about. The last page of the book is the Author's note that tells the true story of the secret project, connecting the story told to what happened. This is a great story for kids that love science or history. This book is breathtaking. I was drawn in from front to back by the dark, somber colors and text to describe the 'shadow people' and 'secret project' juxtaposed with softer pastels and colors appropriate for the southwest when describing anyone or anything else. The secrecy and danger of the project is shown through the simple, straightforward text where the illustrations reveal the darker undertone to the story. The tension that builds when the 'Gadget' is being set is portrayed through the use of a black background and a window view of the project area. The double-page spread dedicated to the countdown is nerve-wracking. When the bomb goes off the page is wordless, as no words are needed or adequate enough to illustrate the vivid glow of the bomb's mushroom cloud and the chilling, and haunting next double-page spread of all black. Update: I went and looked through reviews and there are several that state factual inaccuracies within the story, both in text and illustration, as well as American Indian representation. I had to take off because of this. I had it at 5 stars the first time. I would never know the whole story or other perspectives if not for people like: https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2017/10/still-not-reco.... One quote that stood out to me is: "I want more people to speak about accuracy in the ways that Native people are depicted or left out of children's books." I was entranced by the book at first, and much of it still is mesmerizing, but when I found out this information, it took away some of the pleasure, and made it yet another book that white-washes history.
Still Not Recommended. "There's no mourning for our loss in this book. Honestly: I don't want anyone to mourn. Instead, I want more people to speak about accuracy in the ways that Native people are depicted or left out of children's books." The book has incredible merits; the book erases Pueblo people. "I felt then (and still do) that some changes to the book would make it outstanding." This post is less a review then a discussion of responses from the review, but it's useful, because Reese states the above. "All through that area, there are ancestral homes of Pueblo Indians. Depicting the school that way adds to the idea that the site where the bomb would be developed was isolated, but depicting it that way also erases Native people. " "By then, Santa Fe had paved roads. Showing it as a dirt road contributes to the isolated nature of where the scientists were doing their work, but it isn't accurate." "I suspect that people will defend it, telling me or others that "it is important that kids know about the bomb" and that my concern over its misrepresentations are of less importance than knowing about the bomb. With that defense, however, it will be among the ever-growing pile of books in which this or that topic is more important than Native people." Uppmärksammade listor
"The world's greatest scientists gather in a secret town in the desert to develop the atomic bomb."-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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