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Title: Story of the Titanic by Steve Noon, Eric, Dr Kentley, Eric Kentley ISBN: 0-7894-7943-5 Publisher: DK Publishing Inc Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Clever Approach to the Titanic Story
Comment: If you are into wonderfully illustrated books, you need to check this one out. Noon is one of the best illustrators to paint the subject in quite a while.
Story of the Titanic is a slender, but oversized 11 by 14 volume. Through out most of the book every two pages open out to a great double page painting; that's (for the mathematically challenged) 11 by 28! These illustrations tell the story with wonderful cutaway drawings of the interior of the ship. The result is a strong sense of what was happening where during the Titanic's fateful voyage. The amount of detail in each image is amazing, so much so that your eyes can just wander over the page, spotting one neat little artistic touch after another.
There is a minor downside to the book, in that the artist's renditions of the ship's interiors are not as accurate as they should be. Not that Noon has placed rooms on the wrong deck, or anything like that, but he has taken liberties with how many of the cabins looked. Apparently this is most extensive in the first class cabins depicted.
I am not an expert on the ship interiors, but an acquaintance of mine who has made this area his specialty stated that Noon makes it look like every first class cabin was a period suite, while in reality only some of the cabins on B and C decks were this elaborate.
There are some other minor transgressions with how the ship is depicted, but none of these glitches are a fatal flaw. Another issue to consider is that the amount of text is very limited. You are definitely buying this book for the art, not the words. Still, I think most kids (and adults, for that matter) would get a kick out of how the story is depicted in these cutaway paintings. Noon's book has catapulted right onto the list of my five favorite children's books on the subject.
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Title: Inside the Titanic : A Giant Cut-away Book by Hugh Brewster, Ken Marshall ISBN: 0316557161 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Eyewitness: Titanic by Simon Adams ISBN: 078944724X Publisher: DK Publishing Inc Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: 882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Your Questions About the Titanic by Hugh Brewster, Laurie Coulter, Ken Marschall ISBN: 0439042968 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Titanic: Lost and Found (Step into Reading, Step 4, paper) by Judy Donnelly, Keith Kohler ISBN: 0394886690 Publisher: Random House Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: I Was There: On Board the Titanic by Shelley Tanaka, Ken Marschall ISBN: 0786813180 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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