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Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780689857850)
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Jennifer Armstrong
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xMathew B. Brady was already a famous photographer by the time the Civil War began. But the war gave Brady something else:
The chance to make a RECORD OF A WAR -- this war -- in a way that had never been done before: WITH TRUE-TO-LIFE PICTURES INSTEAD OF JUST WORDS. He hired field photographers to travel with the troops, equipped them with cameras and wagons filled with supplies, and sent them out with the directive to make a visual record of the war and to show people scenes they could have only read about before.
The pictures the field photographers sent back were HAUNTING, BEAUTIFUL, DEVASTATING, AND TOTALLY UNFORGETTABLE. And thousands of them included the notation "Photo by Brady." Though Brady didn't actually take the photographs, he was the genius behind them. His vision and foresight gave the country images that not only touched the people at the time, but have gone on to leave an indelible mark on the collective memory of this country. And the name of Mathew Brady will always be remembered with them.
In Photo By Brady, Jennifer Armstrong tells the story of the Civil War as seen through the lenses of its recorders. It is a moving and elegant look at the brutal and deadly time.
Author: Jennifer Armstrong
ISBN-10: 0689857853
ISBN-13: 9780689857850
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2005
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.46h x 8.16w x 0.66d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.8
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 86587 / Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War
Award: James Madison Book - Honor Book
Award: Beehive Awards - Nominee
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2005 pg. 411 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Booklist 03/15/2005 pg. 1283
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2005 pg. 326 - Book Of Special Distinction
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2005 pg. 344
Kirkus Review - Children 01/15/2005 pg. 115
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2005 pg. 65
School Library Journal 03/01/2005 pg. 223
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2005 pg. 43
ALA Notable Children's Books 03/01/2006 pg. 26
The chance to make a RECORD OF A WAR -- this war -- in a way that had never been done before: WITH TRUE-TO-LIFE PICTURES INSTEAD OF JUST WORDS. He hired field photographers to travel with the troops, equipped them with cameras and wagons filled with supplies, and sent them out with the directive to make a visual record of the war and to show people scenes they could have only read about before.
The pictures the field photographers sent back were HAUNTING, BEAUTIFUL, DEVASTATING, AND TOTALLY UNFORGETTABLE. And thousands of them included the notation "Photo by Brady." Though Brady didn't actually take the photographs, he was the genius behind them. His vision and foresight gave the country images that not only touched the people at the time, but have gone on to leave an indelible mark on the collective memory of this country. And the name of Mathew Brady will always be remembered with them.
In Photo By Brady, Jennifer Armstrong tells the story of the Civil War as seen through the lenses of its recorders. It is a moving and elegant look at the brutal and deadly time.
Author: Jennifer Armstrong
ISBN-10: 0689857853
ISBN-13: 9780689857850
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2005
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.46h x 8.16w x 0.66d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.8
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 86587 / Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War
Award: James Madison Book - Honor Book
Award: Beehive Awards - Nominee
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2005 pg. 411 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Booklist 03/15/2005 pg. 1283
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2005 pg. 326 - Book Of Special Distinction
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2005 pg. 344
Kirkus Review - Children 01/15/2005 pg. 115
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2005 pg. 65
School Library Journal 03/01/2005 pg. 223
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2005 pg. 43
ALA Notable Children's Books 03/01/2006 pg. 26
By Jennifer Armstrong
xJennifer Armstrong is the author of numerous award-winning picture books and novels. Her works include Hugh Can Do, Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat, The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan (a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book), and Black-Eyed Susan. Her first novel, Steal Away, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Notable book, and a Golden Kite Honor book. Other titles include Pockets, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World, Magnus at the Fire, Photo by Brady, and Once Upon a Banana. She lives in New York state.
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