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readallthenewberys2017-09-10 07:00 pm
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Entry tags:
- 1935,
- author: constance rourke,
- era: 1700s,
- era: 1800s,
- genre: nonfiction: history: biography,
- good at: characters,
- good at: language,
- good at: research,
- newbery honor book,
- place: usa: tennessee,
- place: usa: texas,
- protagonist gender: male,
- protagonist race: white,
- protagonist type: human,
- reread,
- review,
- should have won,
- stars: five,
- style: prose
Review: Davy Crockett (Constance Rourke)
Summary: A scholarly biography of Davy Crockett, intertwined with a selection of the contemporary stories and legends about him, aimed at middle-grade kids.
Reaction: I mean, I'm not being as harsh on this as I am on a lot of Newberys. Still and all, it's a childhood favorite that the Suck Fairy hasn't visited. :-) The writing and structure is genuinely really good, and like a lot of the best historical writing, it gives a really good sense of the atmosphere along with the facts. I mean, this is the book that established for me how you write history, it's not like it was going to come up lacking by that standard. ^_^
Rating: Five stars. Actually really good, I highly recommend reading it, though obviously there's also a nostalgia factor here for me.
Reaction: I mean, I'm not being as harsh on this as I am on a lot of Newberys. Still and all, it's a childhood favorite that the Suck Fairy hasn't visited. :-) The writing and structure is genuinely really good, and like a lot of the best historical writing, it gives a really good sense of the atmosphere along with the facts. I mean, this is the book that established for me how you write history, it's not like it was going to come up lacking by that standard. ^_^
Rating: Five stars. Actually really good, I highly recommend reading it, though obviously there's also a nostalgia factor here for me.