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Title: Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers, Ann Grifalconi ISBN: 0-06-028363-7 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful!
Comment: If someone doesn't recommend Walter Dean Myer's book, Patrol for some type of award, let me be the first. In this time of contemplating war, this book is so appropriate, although I would not recommend it for use with students below 5th grade. This picture book made me feel what it must feel like to be a grunt on the field. Powerful!
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Rating: 5
Summary: The Realities of War.....
Comment: "The land of my enemy has wide valleys, mountains that stretch along the far horizon, rushing brown rivers, and thick green forest. My squad of nine men are in the forest. Above me, birds twitter nervously in the treetops. Insects and small animals scurry through the underbrush, trying to avoid the crush of my combat boots. The squad leader raises his hand. We stop. The sound of my breath is soft in the morning air. Somewhere in the forest, hidden in the shadows, is the enemy. He knows I have come to kill him. He waits for me..." Walter Dean Myer's autobiographical picture book chronicles a day in the life of one soldier, on patrol, in the jungles of Viet Nam. His spare, poetic text comes alive on the page, and takes the glamor and excitement out of war as you trudge through the difficult, hot terrain, ever vigilant. "We move again. We are always moving. My legs ache. My shoulders sag. My thousand eyes look for death in the waving bamboo fields." You can feel the smooth wooden stock of the soldier's rifle, the cold sweat running down his back, the fear and trembling as shots are fired and bombs explode, and the rapid beating of his heart. "I think I see the enemy. I reload and shoot again. It is only a shadow, but I do not stop shooting. In war, shadows are enemies, too." But mostly, you feel the weariness and futility. "I am so tired. I am so very tired of this war." Ann Grifalconi's stunning, multi-media collages are evocative and gripping, and together word and art paint an eloquent and powerfully vivid portrait of the Viet Nam War. Perfect for youngsters 9-12, Patrol: An American Soldier In Vietnam is a haunting experience that shouldn't be missed, and definitely one of the best new books of 2002.
Rating: 5
Summary: candidate for the Blue Hen Award
Comment: As the children's librarian in the public library, I try to read a variety of subjects for a wide range of ages. I was impressed by the poetic style and the thought that the book provoked in all the the librarians here. Fear and fatigue were so real, it was feelable to the reader. And just who was the enemy? Shocking, what the young GI realizes.
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Title: Hush by Jacqueline Woodson ISBN: 0142500496 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson ISBN: 0689849222 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman ISBN: 0618052526 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 25 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer ISBN: 0689852223 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth by Sally M. Walker ISBN: 1575055368 Publisher: Carolrhoda Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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