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Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Grade 3-6?The story of Joseph Cinque, leader of the African mutineers who seized the Amistad in 1839, is the focus of Chambers's dramatic picture-book narrative. By eliminating the many details of the frustrating two-year legal history of the Amistad case, and the many complex issues of states' rights and Cuban-American relations discussed in the courts, the role of Cinque takes on heroic and legendary status. Brief mention is made of the support of the abolitionists and the important participation of John Quincy Adams in arguing the case before the Supreme Court, but Cinque's bravery and inspirational leadership are the heart of the book. His speeches and feelings are the only elements of fiction in this story from history, for he was indeed a celebrity in the public eye and certainly the leader of the Africans seeking justice. The figures of the man and his followers are heroic in size in Lee's action-filled acrylic paintings. The dark tones and earth colors dramatize the violence, despair, and patient nobility of the Africans as they fight for freedom and the right to return to their homeland and are forced to wait through many months in a New England town. Amistad Rising serves well as an introduction to this chapter in American history. The brevity of facts and the poetic quality of emotional description make the book a fine read-aloud choice.?Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Gr. 3^-6. Like the Spielberg movie, this picture book is partly fictionalized. There is an inflated voice-over commentary about the "changing winds of fortune" and destiny's plans, but Chambers' narrative of the heroic rebellion is spare, from the facts of slavery ("Many slave traders had grown rich from selling human beings and they were reluctant to give it up") to Cinque's words in court. Lee's extraordinary acrylic paintings contrast the wild, stormy ocean with the tight confinement of people below deck. He focuses on Cinque's yearning, his restlessness. The close-up of the captive's hands as he picks open the lock of his shackles is as powerful as the portraits of Cinque and Adams on either side of a barred cell window. Hazel Rochman
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Grade 3-6?The story of Joseph Cinque, leader of the African mutineers who seized the Amistad in 1839, is the focus of Chambers's dramatic picture-book narrative. By eliminating the many details of the frustrating two-year legal history of the Amistad case, and the many complex issues of states' rights and Cuban-American relations discussed in the courts, the role of Cinque takes on heroic and legendary status. Brief mention is made of the support of the abolitionists and the important participation of John Quincy Adams in arguing the case before the Supreme Court, but Cinque's bravery and inspirational leadership are the heart of the book. His speeches and feelings are the only elements of fiction in this story from history, for he was indeed a celebrity in the public eye and certainly the leader of the Africans seeking justice. The figures of the man and his followers are heroic in size in Lee's action-filled acrylic paintings. The dark tones and earth colors dramatize the violence, despair, and patient nobility of the Africans as they fight for freedom and the right to return to their homeland and are forced to wait through many months in a New England town. Amistad Rising serves well as an introduction to this chapter in American history. The brevity of facts and the poetic quality of emotional description make the book a fine read-aloud choice.?Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Gr. 3^-6. Like the Spielberg movie, this picture book is partly fictionalized. There is an inflated voice-over commentary about the "changing winds of fortune" and destiny's plans, but Chambers' narrative of the heroic rebellion is spare, from the facts of slavery ("Many slave traders had grown rich from selling human beings and they were reluctant to give it up") to Cinque's words in court. Lee's extraordinary acrylic paintings contrast the wild, stormy ocean with the tight confinement of people below deck. He focuses on Cinque's yearning, his restlessness. The close-up of the captive's hands as he picks open the lock of his shackles is as powerful as the portraits of Cinque and Adams on either side of a barred cell window. Hazel Rochman
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- Teaching Story Writing (Grades 3-6) by Joan Novelli on page 48, page 51, and page 52
- Black Books Galore!: Guide to More Great African American Children's Books by Donna Rand on page 65, and Back Matter
- Talking Drums: Reading and Writing with African American Stories, Spirituals, and Multimedia Resources by Wanda Cobb Finnen on page 17, and page 54
- Reading U.S. Latina Writers: Remapping American Literature by Alvina E. Quintana on page 27, and page 35
- Readers' Theater, Grade 6 by Michael Ryall on page 107
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