Yo, Vikings!

Yo, Vikings!
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مشارکت: عنوان و توضیح کوتاه هر کتاب را ترجمه کنید این ترجمه بعد از تایید با نام شما در سایت نمایش داده خواهد شد.
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فرمت کتاب

ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2002

Reading Level

3

ATOS

4.5

Interest Level

K-3(LG)

نویسنده

Judy Schachner

شابک

9780525555773
  • اطلاعات
  • نقد و بررسی
  • دیدگاه کاربران
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نقد و بررسی

Publisher's Weekly

Starred review from June 10, 2002
Expressive and bursting with life, Schachner's (Mr. Emerson's Cook) artwork sweeps readers into a story based, surprisingly, on a real incident involving her daughter. Emma has an imagination that won't quit, and when she has to prepare a report about Viking explorer Erik the Red, she's off and running on a voyage of discovery: "Emma spent every day after school at the library plundering the shelves for more Viking books." The more she learns, the more seeps into her journal and her everyday life—she makes a Viking helmet from tinfoil, hands her brother a painted stone ("It's a rune," she informs him) and renames herself Emma the Red. After the librarian shows her a newspaper ad for a 29-foot Viking ship ($7000 or best offer), Emma and her brother write to the owner proposing to pay $128, two baseball cards and a fox tooth. No one believes her when she announces she's getting a Viking ship for her birthday ("Emma makes everything up," scoffs one classmate), but in fact it's exactly what happens, and the Viking ship arrives in her backyard along with a TV news crew and all of Emma's classmates dressed as Vikings. "See, Ollie," Emma tells her brother. "Dreams do come true." Schachner artfully crowds the slightly oversize pages with detail. Warmly realistic family scenes coexist with Emma's energetic fantasies, the latter delineated as colorful, vibrant images emerging from books and journals. This buoyant book will likely launch readers on adventures of their own. Ages 5-9.



School Library Journal

August 1, 2002
K-Gr 2-Emma loves to pretend, and has in turn been Robin Hood, a raptor, and a ring-tailed lemur. As the story opens, she sports a red bushy tail and pointed ears for her current incarnation as a fox. When she must give a speech about an explorer for a class assignment, Emma chooses Erik the Red. She goes off to the library for research, where Mr. Sigurd shows her a row of "Very Old Books," presumably the best place to find historical information. The child is fascinated when she reads about the Vikings, but at no point does she uncover the facts that Erik the Red fled first Norway and then Iceland charged with murder or that those "magical ships" were primarily used to raid and terrorize the English coast. She has now traded in her fox ears for a tinfoil Viking helmet-except that it has horns, a common misconception. Some of the youngster's fascination stems from Norse mythology, but the distinction between history and myth is never delineated. The end of the story, where Emma manages to have a Viking ship delivered to her backyard on her birthday, is totally implausible. The illustrations swirl frenetically across the pages, only adding to the already rampant confusion. Fantasy and reality do not blend here; they clash.-Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ

Copyright 2002 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.



School Library Journal

July 22, 2002
K-Gr 2-Emma loves to pretend, and has in turn been Robin Hood, a raptor, and a ring-tailed lemur. As the story opens, she sports a red bushy tail and pointed ears for her current incarnation as a fox. When she must give a speech about an explorer for a class assignment, Emma chooses Erik the Red. She goes off to the library for research, where Mr. Sigurd shows her a row of "Very Old Books," presumably the best place to find historical information. The child is fascinated when she reads about the Vikings, but at no point does she uncover the facts that Erik the Red fled first Norway and then Iceland charged with murder or that those "magical ships" were primarily used to raid and terrorize the English coast. She has now traded in her fox ears for a tinfoil Viking helmet-except that it has horns, a common misconception. Some of the youngster's fascination stems from Norse mythology, but the distinction between history and myth is never delineated. The end of the story, where Emma manages to have a Viking ship delivered to her backyard on her birthday, is totally implausible. The illustrations swirl frenetically across the pages, only adding to the already rampant confusion. Fantasy and reality do not blend here; they clash.-Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ

Copyright 2002 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.



Booklist

June 1, 2002
Ages 5-8. Emma fills her journals with drawings of stories and characters ("she was all of them at one point or another"). Now she believes she is a fox, and she wears a bushy red tail and fuzzy ears. Assigned a speech about explorers, Emma the Red Fox becomes Erik the Red (Fox). Mr. Sigurd, the librarian (who looks like Santa Claus in a knit vest), helps her find books about Vikings, and Emma is spellbound. She announces that she wants a Viking ship for her birthday. As luck would have it, one is offered for sale in a newspaper ad. Unfortunately, her plan to use her piggy-bank money to buy it falters, and the only ship at her party is on her cake. Classmates scoff. But the ship actually arrives the next day, and with all her classmates aboard, Emma draws her wildest adventures yet. Appealing, mixed-media illustrations energize the story, with many sweeping off the edges of the double-spread pages to capture the spontaneity of the girl's imagination. The swashbuckling cover and clever bits of humor (her brother's colander hat and his mispronunciation of words) will do even more to engage children in a story that expressively reflects the exuberance that comes with believing in dreams.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2002, American Library Association.)




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