Author: Deborah Kent
Illustrator: Deborah Kent
Readability Score:5.6
Theme: Never say never
Genre: Historical Non-Fiction
Sub Genre: Non-Fiction
Publicaton Date:1993Publisher:Children's Press
ISBN:0-516-06672-2
Summary: This book retells the story of Titanic in a very informational way. The book starts out by telling how the ship was designed and how many passengers it held as opposed to how many passengers could fit on the lifeboats. The rooms were designed based on the class of the occupants, with 1st class being very elegant and lavish with 3rd class, being nice, but no where as nice as the 1st class. The book talks about the warning calls about hte icebergs ahead, but many people (including the captain) did not pay much mind to these icebergs warning. Once the Titanic was hit it was too late and the boat began to sink almost immedently. Many facts are told about the nearest boat being only 10 miles aways- but did not pay attention to the warning flares and therefore failed to save the ship's passsenger. When the next boat that did pay attention to the sinking ships cries- it was too late- it took that ship hours to respond because it was over 50 miles away. The book also talks about passengers that went down with the ship honorably and heroicly.
How Would Use: This book would be to tell older classrooms about the history of the Titanic and also the way "things were" back in those days. Also it should be discussed thtat nothing is ever 100% and even though they called the Titanic unsinkable- it did sink.
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