Traces the life of the humanitarian who gave up a comfortable academic existence to become a missionary doctor in the jungles of Gabon.
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Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
ea. vol: illus. photogs. reprods. appendix. chron. (Why They Became Famous Series). CIP. Silver Burdett. June 1986. PLB $13.96; pap. $6.75. Grade 4-6 These Italian imports use such an excessive amount of fictionalizing and have such a poor reliance on facts that they are little better than fictionand rather dull fiction at that. The format, with large color illustrations filling nearly every page, is geared to upper elementary school students; the vocabulary, however, is on a junior high school level. The illustrations themselves, while adequate, are not outstanding. Each volume includes several unnecessary appendixes; a historical chronology which is highly abbreviated and heavily biased towards Europe in general and Italy in particular; and a brief bibliography which relies almost entirely on adult references. None of the books has an index. Albert Schweitzer is the worst of the lot in terms of lack of background information, beginning abruptly with his decision to go to Africa and become a doctor (amazingly, no dates appear to even place the book historically until page 15). Marco Polo has the poorest illustrations; and Abraham Lincoln is roughly written, overly moralistic, and manages not to include any of Lincoln's noted pranks and jokeswhich might have brought some spark and life to the writing. There is nothing else available on Schweitzer for this age group; material on Lincoln, on the other hand, is plentiful. Cesarini's Marco Polo (Putnam, 1982), although for slightly younger children, has superior illustrations andbriskly, concisely, and pared of excessive verbiagepresents the same basic information as Marri. Most children will rapidly put these books down in search of something more interesting, more accurate, and more useful. Ann W. Moore, Lane Road Library, Columbus, Ohio
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Text: English, Italian (translation)
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