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[ 책 소개 ]
폭풍우가 몰아치는 밤, 다리위에서 탈선한 기차의 승객들을 구하기 위해 생명의 위험을 무릅쓰고 영웅적인 활약을 한 Kate Shelley의 실화를 그린 책입니다.
작가 Robert D. San Souci는 Caldecott상을 비롯, 다수의 수상경력을 지닌 대표적인 아동문학 작가이며, Illustrator인 Max Ginsburg 역시 Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators in New York을 비롯 다수의 수상 경력을 갖고 있는 뛰어난 화가입니다.
[ 서지 정보 ]
Hardcover
ISBN: 0803712898
Dimensions : 27.3cm x 22.3cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
From Booklist
Younger for reading aloud. In this picture book for older readers, San Souci reconstructs a slice of history. After the railroad bridge near her home collapsed during a summer storm in 1881, 15-year-old Kate Shelley walked to the nearest railroad station to make sure the passenger train from Chicago would be stopped before it reached the broken bridge. To get to the station, she had to crawl across a 700-foot-long railroad bridge, with a raging river below. The train had been stopped by railroad officials before she arrived, but her courageous efforts still saved two lives and won her a national reputation. Along with dramatic descriptions, San Souci presents a convincing portrait of Kate's personality, depicting her as a strong, supportive part of her family long before that summer's night. Ginsburg's realistic oil paintings of the storm and the bridge crossing are particularly effective. Mary Harris Veeder
From Horn Book
Illustrated by Max Ginsburg. Growing up in rural Iowa near the turn of the twentieth century, Kate Shelley seemed an ordinary teenager who willingly shouldered the responsibility of caring for her siblings when her mother's health failed. Her avid interest in the railroad that ran behind her house was, perhaps, a bit unusual for a girl in that period, but nothing in her life predicted her future heroism. Her moment of fame came when a terrible storm took out the railroad bridge near her home and... |
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