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A review by hollowspine
Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale by Nathan Hale
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.