TITANIC. EL FINAL DE UNAS VIDAS DORADAS

by Hugh Brewster

Text and cut-away illustrations feature the stories of real-life children who sailed aboard the Titanic on the night of its disaster in the North Atlantic. --- Library of Congress Summary
LCCN: 97000382

Inside the Titanic invites young readers to embark on the most famous ocean voyage of all time. With colorful, oversized illustrations and fabulously detailed cutaways, this book reveals every stage of the Titanic's life, from the day the liner left England to a haunting underwater view of the wreck today. --- Inside Back Dust Jacket.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Childrens, Historical, Picture Books

Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Being able to create books about history is a dream job for me since I’ve always been enthralled by history. When I was growing up in Georgetown, Ontario, our house was just around the corner from the town library. And I haunted its children’s section—reading sometimes four or five books a week. Historical fiction titles by writers like Geoffrey Trease and Rosemary Sutcliffe were particular favourites. I still treasure a copy of Ernest Thompson Seton’s Two Little Savages that I was given as a prize in a library reading contest in 1960.

Since ours was the only house in the neighbourhoood without a TV antenna on the roof, reading was my primary form of entertainment. My parents thought their four children would read more without a television to distract us. And they were right, we did — though we also showed up at our friends’ houses whenever our favourite shows were on!

Our family had moved to Georgetown from a small town in Scotland in 1956, when I was six years old. When I was thirteen we moved to Guelph, Ontario, and I went to high school and university there. My first real job after graduating with an English degree in 1971 was with Scholastic – then a fairly new publishing company in Canada. As an editor for Scholastic Inc. from 1972 to 1984 in both Toronto and New York, I was involved in the creation of Scholastic’s Canadian children’s publishing program as well as in the selecting of books for Scholastic’s school book clubs. (One of our early discoveries was the teenaged author Gordon Korman and his Bruno and Boots books.)

Between 1984 and 2004 I was the Editorial Director and Publisher of Madison Press Books in Toronto. While there, I helped to create a number of successful books for both adults and young readers including Robert Ballard’s The Discovery the Titanic, that has sold over 1.5 million copies, and TITANIC: An Illustrated History a book that provided inspiration for James Cameron’s epic movie. Among the award-winning children’s books that I edited and compiled are: Polar the Titanic Bear, On Board the Titanic, First to Fly, and Journey to Ellis Island.

The first children’s book that I actually both wrote and compiled was Anastasia’s Album: The Last Tsar’s Youngest Daughter Tells Her Own Story, which was published in 1996 and won a number of awards. In 1997 I wrote the text for Inside the Titanic, which featured amazing cutaway illustrations by Ken Marschall. The next year, with Laurie Coulter, I compiled a book filled with fascinating facts about the Titanic entitled 882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Your Questions About the Titanic. Laurie and I went on to write To Be A Princess in 2001 which was a Silver Birch and Red Cedar nominee. In 2004, the 60th anniversary of D-Day, I wrote On Juno Beach which won the Children’s Literature of Canada Information Book Award in 2005. The success of that book encouraged me to write At Vimy Ridge which appeared in 2007 and won the Norma Fleck Award in 2008.

In 2005, I decided to devote myself to writing full-time and have produced seven books since then: The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint George published Fall 2006; Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose: The Story of a Painting and Breakout Dinosaurs. DIEPPE: Canada’s Darkest Day of World War II was released in 2009 and was followed by the novel Prisoner of Dieppe in Scholastic’s new I Am Canada series. A second novel, Deadly Voyage appeared in Fall ’11 and for the 100th anniversary of the Titanic, I produced a large adult book entitled Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage in Spring 2012.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 5 out of 5]

This fascinating book is oversized and provides wonderful cutaways to enhance understanding of the Titanic and it's construction. Adults would also enjoy this book!

[Sil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Qué lindo poder seguir descubriendo más y más datos de esta historia que me conmovió desde que tengo 9 años. 👏

[Jasmine Shadows · Rating 3 out of 5]

This little book has some wonderful illustrations and cutaways. It is not an indepth study of the Titanic, but it gives you some wonderful background and information about the ship and its passengers. I am a pretty detailed person that can often get caught up in the need to know details, but I enjoyed the read.

[Johanna Lehto · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very quick read and with a pretty rough
description of the Titanic and the disaster.

In my opinion, this book suits best for someone that recently started to become interested to read about Titanic. You get some of the main events during that night and some smaller details.

What I liked most about this book was the pictures and drawings. The details was incredible. They actully gave me a better understanding on how the ship looked like.

Overall, not a personal favorite book. However, would recommend to read it if you are interested to learn about the ship.

[Drew Slanina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a historical representation of the Titanic through the survivors perspective. This book teaches children about the tragic ill fated voyage of the Titanic. The story follows people from two different classes. The classes are first and third. When the Titanic sank, it followed up on the survivors and their families. Unfortunately, some family members were lost in the wreckage. The bock also goes into later life about the ship wreck and how it looks today. Overall, The book provides a good history lesson for third graders.

[Nine · Rating 4 out of 5]

In deutscher Übersetzung für einen Vortrag in der Schule gelesen.

[Kaylee Herman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grade: 1-8
Genre: Nonfiction/informational
Unique feature: Includes a lot of text, but also very cool and in detail pictures. There is a HUGE one with parts cut out so you can see inside the ship.

[Sasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

The panels are as captivating as the tragic mystery itself.

[Madame Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Checked this from the library right after watching the movie on VHS in 1998. Its an awesome rendering of the inside of the Titanic. I will always remember this book.

[Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Always enjoyed the Titanic story, even as a young kid. This book had always been at my library and I read it several times.

[Aristotle Kills · Rating 4 out of 5]

IMMAGINI GROSSE DI NAVI AHOOGA

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is another classic that should be in any classroom Titanic collection - Ken Marchall painted the illustrations, so they are keepers.

[Thom Swennes · Rating 4 out of 5]

On Wednesday, the tenth of April, 1912 the Titanic left the Port of Southampton on the southern coast of England. Titanic, sister ship to the Olympic was the newest, largest, and most luxury liner of the White Star Line. Many stories have been written about the passengers that braved this voyage and lost their lives to a watery grave. The rich and poor were made equal on this fateful night and the sinking, rescue, and legacy of the Titanic have continued to interest people more than a hundred years later. Much is known and written about this iconic ship and her very short service life but relatively little is known about her actual accommodations and their relative placement on the ship. This book is designed to show how this “unsinkable” ship looked before she went down in the deep waters of the north Atlantic.

This book doesn’t contain any inspirational or immortal words about this grand ship; it isn’t about words. The writer of the text, Hugh Brewster, doesn’t even appear on the cover. This book is all about the beautifully detailed illustrations created by Ken Marschall. From stateroom to ballroom, galley to boiler-room, and from the sport-hall to the promenade-deck, you are treated to drawings that bring this great ship back to life. This book is a must for any Titanic fan as it gives a rare insight into a very short moment in history, and it’s all about the pictures.

[Ariel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Me and my Titanic books. As a child, I used to check out LOTS of Titanic books, but never actually read them, So now, as an adult, I'm starting to go through my collection and read them. I thought this book was very cute, in the fact that it was a cut-away book. I thought it was a good was to show children the inside of the Titanic. Unfortunately, after spending the past few days reading Titanic books, I have begun to notice all Titanic books for children tend to show the same pictures, I can understand why, but it's still kind of a downer for books about the Titanic.

[Daniel Hencher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informational text -

Inside the Titanic is a wonderful resource for both children and educators. It is very detailed and has lots of pages to open and cutaways to show inside the Titanic. It is instantly engaging and encourages discussion.

I have used this in my classroom as a question starter and has led to lots of my students wanting to find out more and more about the fate of the Titanic.

This was a WOW book for me when I realized the majority of my class wanted to take it home and I was worried that I may not get it back!

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was one of the main references my daughter had used for constructing her Titanic model from scratch, 10+ years ago. Unfortunately, the model was never completed. I enjoyed reading through all her Titanic books, after purchasing them for her. And now they sit in our Titanic library, until she wants them back or inherits them later.

[Linore · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a good introduction, gives a little more information than some other books on the Titanic, but still not enough! It's worth adding to a collection of books if you're studying the ship, but it won't answer a lot of questions about the decks and the inside of the ship.

[Max B. · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book is very intersting because I learn someting new and I love the parts when the author explain very clear,because sometimes the author dosen´t explain at always clear.This book tell me about how big was the Titanic inside.

[Jada Gillette · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was the best book I ever read. I read it 3 times. Jada- 7 yrs old

[Meg · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book for kids and adults both. Beautifully illustrated by Titanic historian Ken Marschall. I greatly enjoyed this book as a kid, and I can't wait until I can own it again.

[Jr · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the titanic

[Jex Merrill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really cool to see what everything was like before it sank. This book also has pictures of the inside while it's sinking

[Jose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Libro muy interesante al presentarnos testimonios e imágenes reales del buque y de sus pasajeros. Imprescindible si te interesa la historia de este barco tan famoso.