This book on a Tsunami that changed America is a very interesting read. It talks about the facts on tsunamis, even leaving a set of pages just explaining what a tsunami is in case students don't know what it is! It shows the fear in the situation from a kids' point of view, and how getting to safety is most important! It's crazy that the same city was hit by another Tsunami not that long after the one it is mostly talking about! I like at the end that the book lists records and facts about the tsunami and I thought that was very interesting and a nice thing to add to the book!
I found this book very interesting, granted, it wasn't all that appealing to me. I think it's because I am not a big fan of non-fiction books usually, at least no children books. I think the age group would be upper elementary because of the content, maybe middle elementary age too though. It has quite a lot of words and I'm not sure how interested young elementary school students would be in it due to the amount of complicated words and how much there are per page. I do think the pictures make it appealing though, because most of them are the very real pictures from the actual incident. I also really like them describing what things were in case children wouldn't get it, even how to pronounce it! I mostly enjoyed the facts and records listed at the end of the book too, I do think children would enjoy this!
Mischief Managed.
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