Photo novels have gained a lot of popularity and respect since I was a child, apart from Her Tintin’s books – but no matter how possible, these were loyal to Europeans! At that time, this type of music was better associated with its cousin, a comic book, than any other children’s book. Of course, comic books have no respect for the literal sense; even the ingenious and complex works of the 1980s and 90s of Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, and Alan Moore (who are not children in any way) had to overcome the struggle for prejudice before they could be taken seriously by the mainstream media.
Today, major publishers have embraced the diversity of a full-blown picture novel (even a comic book!), Which produces excellent work for children and adults, focusing on almost every genre and stage. To my delight, there are even non-fiction novels, whose masterpiece is none other than Matt Phelan. His latest book, Around the World, tells the story of three amazing, amazing, and authentic solo tours around the world in the 19th century: Thomas Stevens’ 1884 Journey on a Wheelchair, a Nellie Bly newspaper-sponsored 1889 race past Jules. Verne’s 80-day success story, as well as Joshua Slocum’s 1895 small boat voyage.
These are the kinds of stories that have long been told in children’s books that are not true. I remember reading about Bly’s race against the time when I was a kid — which makes it even more remarkable that Phelan has illuminated the unprecedented work of Stevens and Slocum, no one whose name is unfamiliar to me so far. . All three of these stories are amazing, the kind that sounds incredibly impossible in their time (especially Slocum, which seems almost impossible).
And as evidenced by the historical novel The Storm in the Barn, Phelan knows what to do with the plot. His story of three trips from one channel to another is a well-organized film, and he can capture and express the characteristics of his main character in simple captioned words, just as a leading film actor can express feelings just by looking.
The author also thinks enough that he can move on to the actions of these three young men in the question of why each person pursues his goal — a question that goes a long way in establishing the character and, not spontaneously, in making Phelan’s book even more so. interesting are the many non-fiction myths, including books on the same subject that I read as a child. Perhaps it is not necessary to call the explicit novel a page turn, but that is a word that comes to mind when I think of how diligently my seven-year-old is studying. Find more interesting readings on our blog!
Photo cover courtesy of Candlewick Press
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