可借阅:*
图书馆 | 资料类型 | 排架号 | 子计数 | 书架位置 | 状态 | 图书预约 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
正在检索... Branch | Juvenile Book | J 979.82 COR | 1 | Juvenile Non-Fiction | 正在检索... 未知 | 正在检索... 不可借阅 |
链接这些题名
已订购
摘要
摘要
This firsthand account of a three-week sea kayaking journey, seen through the eyes of young travelers, introduces readers to one of Alaska's most popular and awe-inspiring marine parks.
评论 (4)
《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 4-7-Told from the point of view of 13-year-old Hannah, this photo-essay documents the Corral family's 200-mile kayaking/camping trip around this remote, spectacular national park. The full-color photography is lovely, portraying the grandeur of Glacier Bay. While the text is occasionally stilted ("I wonder if the rain causes the ice to snap and pop as it trickles down the glacier's cracks, called crevasses. That's what happens when I run water over a tray of ice cubes at home"), the adventure overrides any awkwardness in the writing. Hannah, her parents, and her five-year-old brother take notice of the abundant flora and fauna (including whales, seals, bears and birds) in both the text and photographs. Like the Corrals's My Denali (Alaska Northwest, 1995), A Child's Glacier Bay is a challenge to "couch potato" families to get out and experience nature firsthand. But the book is also "cool" reading about Alaska on a hot summer's day.-Mollie Bynum, formerly at Chester Valley Elementary School, Anchorage, AK (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Though written (with Hannah's input) by her mother, this description of a family kayaking trip along the coastline of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is narrated by thirteen-year-old Hannah. The result is a somewhat precocious-sounding, though engaging, travelogue, one enlivened by an eye-catching design and outstanding color photographs of Alaskan wildlife and landscapes. From HORN BOOK Fall 1998, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
The full-color photographs in this book, taken in 1997 in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, are gorgeous, but even more beguiling is the human scale brought forth by having Hannah, 13, and her brother, Ben, appear in many of the shots. Hannah tells about three weeks her family spent camping and kayaking and exploring Glacier Bay. To see both children calmly reading outside their bright yellow tent while Lamplugh Glacier ``creaks and moans beside us like a blue dragon with a belly ache'' is a spectacular image. There are sharp, clear photographs of wildlife, too: Hannah notes that the duck-like surf scoters are molting and their struggling wings sound like pages flipping in a book; her mom finds bear tracks. The professionalism of the elder Corrals' efforts combined with Hannah's youthful and enthusiastic voice will please and teach its rapt audience. Ben almost steals the show, however, as he waves to a cruise ship, plays his wooden flute, and finds a boreal toad amidst the blue and silver wildness. (map) (Picture book/nonfiction. 5-9)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 4^-8. This photo-essay documents the Corral family's camping adventure in the marine park of Glacier Bay in Alaska. The three-week kayaking trip takes the family along the Alaskan coastline, with its desolate, wildly beautiful landscape and plant and animal life. Up close, the family sees whales, seals, and awe-inspiring icebergs. Roy Corral's photos are spectacular, capturing the vast, glacial beauty, as well as documenting the everyday details of roughing it in the frigid terrain. Readers learn how the family sleeps, cooks, sets up camp, and travels; the book also explains the terms and facts of scientific and biological objects and phenomena. Told conversationally from the 13-year-old daughter's point of view, the narrative takes readers right along with the family. An accessible, basic introduction to the wonders of Alaska and its ever-changing landscape (and a model example of siblings and family members working together and getting along in veritable isolation) as viewed and experienced by a real family on a challenging but rewarding expedition. --Shelle Rosenfeld