Publications about books for children and young adults
Building Titanic, by National Geographic in collaboration with developer Neo-Pangea (released for the Titanic‘s centennial in April 2012), is a stunning nonfiction app for everyone from elementary-aged students to adults. Most Titanic media, understandably, focuses on the ship’s sinking; as the name suggests, this app instead gives an inside look into a remarkable technological achievement: [...]
Brave and determined intern Ariel tackled a project of massive proportions: building a 27-inch paper model of The Titanic in honor of this week’s centennial. The model pieces and instructions are included in The Titanic Notebook: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Ship by Claire Hawcock (Insight Editions, March). Though the browse-worthy Notebook is [...]
A hundred years ago, on April 15, 1912, the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage. Speaking for many, Don Brown concludes his account (see below) with these words: “Though gone from view, she remains fixed on the horizon of our imagination, where she steams endlessly, haunting us.” And for good reason. Swirling around the disaster [...]
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson Intermediate, Middle School Scholastic 290 pp. 3/12 978-0-545-11674-9 $17.99 Hopkinson knows precisely what’s she doing in her coverage of the Titanic disaster: providing young readers with a basic introduction to the event without overdramatizing, drawing unwarranted conclusions, or prolonging the ordeal. She begins her account as the [...]
