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erika_tanner's review against another edition
5.0
This is about what leads up to the Alamo and what happens afterwards.
awolgs's review against another edition
4.0
Hale's Tales are pretty fun, and this entry in the series packs a lot of history and storylines into an interesting and fun book. My 8yo and I enjoyed reading this together, and now I better understand why Texans are the way they are (you know how they are).
booksandbosox's review
4.0
I love this series so much. It's so entertaining and I always learn something I didn't previously know. This volume had more curse words than previous entries (ahh, Texas history) which is something to note as this series is popular with a wide variety of ages. Currently living in Texas, I enjoyed this volume immensely, though it's likely a lot of information Texans learn from a young age. Regardless, I hope Hale keeps making these for a long time to come.
melerihaf's review against another edition
4.0
The history of Texas is crazy and complicated. I'm seriously impressed at how much Nathan Hale was able to fit into a children's graphic novel, and how clearly he was able to present a complicated situation. I didn't know much about the Alamo except that Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie died there, so I learned a lot. It was fun, too. I love giving kids these books to read. They always come back for more. So do I.
tinkeringlibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
A great tool for teaching Texas history, although not sure I would recommend it as recreational reading to many kids. Good for grades 4-7, leaning towards the younger side. Having the executioners participate in telling the story is an interesting twist, and showing historical figures as flawed people who did important things, sometimes by accident, is a great way to instruct middle grades readers on the complexities of history.
karingforbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Good overview of the Alamo. Having read this in tandem with a nonfiction (traditional book) on the Alamo, it was fun to see the facts align. It also revealed the bias of the nonfiction author because he didn’t present many of the stories as legend; rather he presented them as truth. As always, love the humor and illustrations. Really enjoyed the combination of another execution into this story. That was a fun change of pace.
hollowspine's review against another edition
4.0
Don’t miss the newest book in Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series, the characters he talks about here are larger than life, such as Jim Bowie and David (Davy) Crockett. This is the story of the Alamo and to help him tell it Hale (the Spy, not the author) invites Vicente Guerrero (insurgent and former president who was executed basically because other powerful figures feared he would become more powerful than them with his appeal to minorities within Mexico.
This is the story of the Alamo, so of course it has plenty of action. I also loved that Hale includes many quotes taken from historical sources, sometimes presenting them as conversations between the figures rather than the letter sources they were taken from (but each time he does change a small aspect for better presentation within the story/graphic novel he explains what he changes).
American History was always one of my least favorite subjects in school. I found it boring at best and frustrating at worst, especially when some subjects are presented as if the problems we once faced are solved.
That said, all of these graphic novels focus (at least in part) on American History and I find them enthralling. I won’t say that I don’t realize I’m learning, in fact, often after reading these books I want to go to my friends and say, did you know that Jim Bowie was shot, stabbed through the thigh and the hand, and shot again in the back, but still survived to lay in his death bed with influenza during the battle of the Alamo? Or did you know that the ‘Come and Take It’ flag from the Gonzales battle was made out of a wedding dress?
Hand these books out to the youngsters like candy and you might be regaled with historical facts that won’t put you to sleep.
This is the story of the Alamo, so of course it has plenty of action. I also loved that Hale includes many quotes taken from historical sources, sometimes presenting them as conversations between the figures rather than the letter sources they were taken from (but each time he does change a small aspect for better presentation within the story/graphic novel he explains what he changes).
American History was always one of my least favorite subjects in school. I found it boring at best and frustrating at worst, especially when some subjects are presented as if the problems we once faced are solved.
That said, all of these graphic novels focus (at least in part) on American History and I find them enthralling. I won’t say that I don’t realize I’m learning, in fact, often after reading these books I want to go to my friends and say, did you know that Jim Bowie was shot, stabbed through the thigh and the hand, and shot again in the back, but still survived to lay in his death bed with influenza during the battle of the Alamo? Or did you know that the ‘Come and Take It’ flag from the Gonzales battle was made out of a wedding dress?
Hand these books out to the youngsters like candy and you might be regaled with historical facts that won’t put you to sleep.
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