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Chargement... Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (1888)par Ernest L. Thayer
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The popular narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game, with additional text placing it in the context of Little League. A phenomenal book. The artwork and the level of detail in the creation left me in awe. My regard for sports in general is lukewarm at best, but I love, adore, baseball. When I was little and my parents couldn't find me, they went straight to the baseball field at our local park and I'd be there in the stands, so Casey at the Bat tugs all the right heartstrings for me and I can't imagine a better presentation for this bit of American poetry. Awesome. Poetry - Narrative This is about Casey who is up to bat at the biggest game of the season. He knows that he has to his a homer in order to win the game which shouldn't be a problem for him because he is the leading home run scorer. With the roaring crowd in the background and his team on his side, Casey strikes out to lose the game. I think that this is a good lesson to teach about ego and getting a big head when nothing is guaranteed. Casey obviously had it set in his mind that he was going to win this game and be a hero for all time but that wasn't how it ended. I believe that this is a great lesson to teach because it can be used for the rest of your students' lives.
Bill Ott (Booklist, Feb. 15, 2001 (Vol. 97, No. 12)) First-time children's book illustrator Bing's take on Casey at the Bat represents, above all, a stunning example of contemporary bookmaking in which the most sophisticated electronic techniques have been used to re-create the past. The text is presented as a "newly discovered," 100-year-old scrapbook into which newspaper articles, including Thayer's poem and other memorabilia, have been pasted, recording not only the events of the day--Casey's ninth-inning strikeout and the Mudville nine's four-to-two defeat--but also a broader view of the baseball world in 1888. The poem is illustrated in two-page spreads in which Bing's scratchboard drawings effectively capture the look of engravings used in newspapers of the period. Imposed over the drawings are fictional clippings that amplify issues suggested in the text (on the spread where Jimmy Blake "tears the cover off the ball," an editorial decries the practice of using only one ball throughout a game). Elsewhere, the illustrations depict a black player, and the clipping concerns the soon-to-be-instituted color line. (As with all the fictional clippings, this reference to baseball before the color line is historically accurate.) There is a phenomenal amount of information on baseball history compacted into this fascinating format, and the juxtaposition of memorabilia to text is unfailingly, even exhaustingly, clever (a newspaper ad for "bronchial troches" to cure hoarseness appears alongside the lines "Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell"). As with so many recent tour-de-force picture books, however, questions linger about the audience. For all its brilliance and bravura, this is a far less kid-friendly Casey than Gerald Fitzgerald's 1995 version. Adults, of course, will marvel at the bookmaking and relish the arcane information, but they may meet a fate similar to Casey's when they try to pass on their enthusiasm to their young children. Category: Books for the Young--Nonfiction. 2000, Handprint, $17.95. Ages 5-8. Appartient à la série éditorialeEst contenu dansFait l'objet d'une adaptation dansPossède un guide de référence avecContient un supplémentContient un guide de lecture pour étudiantPrix et récompensesListes notables
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