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I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011
by Lauren Tarshis
Audiobook- Narrator - Janet Song. I enjoyed her voice and pacing and difference tones for different characters. Good narration. My only complaint is that I prefer male narrators when the main character is a boy. It is too hard to “translate” the female voice in to being a boy character in my mind.
I do like the pattern of this series where they start with the disaster event and then flashback to start the back story. I also really appreciate the true information at the end of the book. It is a clever way to mix facts in to the fiction. My 9-year-old was telling me how the "I survived" books all start with that "hook" at the beginning and then in chapter 2 the real story starts. It is interesting to read a story about a disaster that is vivid in my memory. I can see why kids like these books so much and even as an adult I thought it was an exciting, dramatic read. The way Tarshis balances the sadness of the dad dying with the disaster story even gives the book depth that I didn't expect.
Theme: Military family (air force), father death, survival, natural disaster
I do like the pattern of this series where they start with the disaster event and then flashback to start the back story. I also really appreciate the true information at the end of the book. It is a clever way to mix facts in to the fiction. My 9-year-old was telling me how the "I survived" books all start with that "hook" at the beginning and then in chapter 2 the real story starts. It is interesting to read a story about a disaster that is vivid in my memory. I can see why kids like these books so much and even as an adult I thought it was an exciting, dramatic read. The way Tarshis balances the sadness of the dad dying with the disaster story even gives the book depth that I didn't expect.
Theme: Military family (air force), father death, survival, natural disaster