Download Ebook How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How the . . . Got to the Museum), by Jessie Hartland
The thing to do as well as conquer with the visibility of the needs can be attained by taking such presented function of publication. Customarily, book will certainly work not only for the understanding and something so. However, practically, it will certainly also reveal you what to do and not to do. When you have wrapped up that the book used, you could have the ability to discover what exactly the author will share to you.
How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How the . . . Got to the Museum), by Jessie Hartland
Download Ebook How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How the . . . Got to the Museum), by Jessie Hartland
When somebody involves you to visit the library and also obtain some publications to check out, what's your response? In some cases, that's not the appropriate time to visit it. Yeah, careless is the big reason of why lots of people decide to go to the library. You could also have no sufficient time to select. Currently, we present for you reserve soft documents or online publication to check out. Without going to the collection, without hanging out for going to the book shops, this sort of book is served by internet with web link initially.
Downtime ends up being a really valuable time for lots of people. This is the moment to lose all worn out, worn down, and also bored works or tasks. However, having as well long period of time will certainly make you feel bored. Additionally, you will really feel that so when you have no tasks. To deal with the small problem, we reveal a publication How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How The . . . Got To The Museum), By Jessie Hartland that can be a means to accompany you while remaining in the spare time. It can be reviewing material, not as the pillow obviously.
Yeah, soft file becomes a reason that you should read this book. If you bring the published book for some areas, it will certainly make your bag to be much heavier. When you can stick with the soft documents, it will not have to bring heavy thing. However, the How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How The . . . Got To The Museum), By Jessie Hartland in soft data can be a choice when you opt for some locations or remain at home. Please read this publication. It is not only the idea; it will be ideas for you and also you're your life to progress better.
Yeah, the content of this book has simple words, very easy language styles, as well as easy sensation to comprehend. When you have located this suggested publication to check out, one to do is just by inspecting it in the link as well as get it. You should start asap since there are additionally many people that have actually got and reviewed How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How The . . . Got To The Museum), By Jessie Hartland So, you will not be left back to know more concerning this book content.
From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Grade 1–4—Lively artwork and rhythmic text highlight this unique picture book that tells the story of how one particular piece of Egyptian sculpture ended up in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Hartland begins with a brief description of Hatshepsut and her significance as a female pharaoh in ancient Egypt, as well as explaining how most pharaohs had many pieces of statuary created in their honor. The story continues to build as Hatshepsut orders the creation of the sphinx, the sculptor secures the granite, the priests admire it, the stepson destroys it, and then the real fun begins after an archaeologist discovers it 3000 years later in a pit and begins the process of acquisition for the museum. The cadenced writing is simultaneously predictable and unexpected, making it a joy to read aloud, inviting listeners to join in. It also includes vocabulary such as curator, rigger, and registrar, providing the opportunity to delve into discussions of unusual career choices, as well as fun verb choices that will intrigue children. The accompanying illustrations are animated and detailed, from an archaeologist's tools to a curator's cluttered office—plenty for young eyes to discover and share. Brilliantly simple and effective, this is an excellent addition to any elementary collection.—Jody Kopple, Shady Hill School, Cambridge, MA (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Read more
From Booklist
*Starred Review* At some point every visitor to a museum wonders the same thing: How did that get here? With exhaustive, dizzying, yet crystal clear detail, Hartland answers that question in regard to a seven-ton sphinx from ancient Egypt. The opening illustration introduces a museum docent and a gaggle of curious students, but then we backtrack to the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who requests from a sculptor six granite sphinxes. Priests observe the finished works; years later, Pharaoh Thutmose III destroys them; 3,000 years later, an archaeologist discovers the ruins. This is just the beginning—before it’s over we’ll meet art movers, curators, conservators, riggers, registrars, retouchers, and more, and the increasing lineup is featured on each right-hand page in “house-that-Jack-built†stair-steps: “The SPHINX that was documented by the PHOTOGRAPHER, painted and restored by the ARTIST, officially numbered by the REGISTRAR,†and so on. Eye-openers abound (the movers, for example, avoid “bumpy roads and tight turnsâ€); while Hartland’s cheery, childlike paintings effortlessly shift from desert to city to museum. Closing historical notes are also great. The overall elicited emotion is awe—both for the passage of time and for the steps required to bring a simple hunk of stone to the fifteenth person: you. Grades 2-4. --Daniel Kraus
Read more
See all Editorial Reviews
Product details
Age Range: 6 - 9 years
Lexile Measure: AD1460L (What's this?)
amznJQ.available('jQuery', function() {
amznJQ.available('popover', function() {
jQuery("#lexileWhatsThis_db").amazonPopoverTrigger({
showOnHover: true,
showCloseButton: false,
title: 'What is a Lexile measure?',
width: 480,
literalContent: 'A Lexile® measure represents either an individual's reading ability (a Lexile reader measure) or the complexity of a text (a Lexile text measure). Lexile measures range from below 200L for early readers and text to above 1600L for advanced readers and materials. When used together Lexile measure help a reader find books at an appropriate level of challenge, and determine how well that reader will likely comprehend a text. When a Lexile text measure matches a Lexile reader measure, this is called a "targeted" reading experience. The reader will likely encounter some level of difficulty with the text, but not enough to get frustrated. This is the best way to grow as a reader - with text that's not too hard but not too easy.',
openEventInclude: "CLICK_TRIGGER"
});
});
});
Series: How the . . . Got to the Museum
Hardcover: 40 pages
Publisher: Blue Apple Books (September 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1609050320
ISBN-13: 978-1609050320
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 0.5 x 11.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
8 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#833,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Shipped quickly. Grandson Loved it.
I bought this book for my six year old who has been obsessed with everything Egyptian lately. It is a cute look into where pieces of history come from and how they end up in the museum. It focuses on one mummy, a woman pharaoh named Hatshepsut and her journey from being pharaoh to ending up in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.
One of the most frequent requests I get from parents in my library is a desire for books on "community workers". Which is to say, their children have been given an assignment in school on writing about the people who work in their neighborhood, and so we are charged with coming up with books about sanitation workers, doctors, bus drivers, etc. This being New York City, I always kind of wish that I'd get a request for a community worker a little out of the ordinary. How about a request for a book on a conservator? Or a museum registrar? Why do docents always end up with the short end of the stick? Of course, even if I did get a request for one of these, I'd actually have to produce a book that says what such museum folks actually do. Still, that's no problem since the publication of "How the Sphinx Got to the Museum". Basically author/illustrator Jessie Hartland came up with a radical notion. Why not combine a book that explains the jobs people do with a real life mystery (how a busted sphinx was returned to its full splendor for display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and then present it in a cumulative tale format? Why that's so crazy it just might work. And work it does in a story that satisfies a child's need for story while also working in some pretty cool details about why museums are full of statues from other countries far far away.A group of kids visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art and are told a strange fact. Before their eyes sits a sphinx created for the Pharaoh Hatshepsut. The kicker? That same statue was destroyed a mere twenty years after its creation on orders from Hatshepsut's successor and stepson. So how on earth has it come to reside fully intact in a museum in America? To answer that you have to begin at the beginning. And so the docent recounts the many steps and people who contributed to the sphinx's story. Hatshepsut commissioned, the sculptors sculpted, the priests admired it, and the stepson had it destroyed. From there the story takes a turn, rediscovered centuries later in a pit by an archaeologist, brought to America, and restored. As each piece of the puzzle falls into place we are consistently reminded of the people who came before, until at long last we reach the present day. A section called "More History" at the end clarifies many of the details and gives kids additional information on the real statue and its current location.The real trick here, as it is with any cumulative tale, is to know how to tell a story with a lot of repetition without making it boring. I should clarify what a cumulative tale is by this point, yes? Basically what I'm talking about is a book that tells a story the same way you would in a classic like "This is the House that Jack Built". It's where you introduce an element and then build on it, always returning for a kind of chorus. The books that are successful at this (like "The Apple Pie That Papa Baked") know how to keep a reader interested, even as the same information is conjured up time and time again. In the case of "How the Sphinx Got to the Museum", Hartland has the advantage of telling a true story. As a result, the more you repeat what happened to the sphinx (it was . . . "secured by the Art Movers, supervised by the Department of Antiquities, found in a pit by the Archaeologist") not only are you bringing up the true story of its travels, you're also teaching kids about certain jobs by having them repeat the wordy occupations over and over again. Teachable moments! Woot!The fact that the book is mostly factual places it in a funny position in libraries. Where do you put it? It kind of looks like a picture book, and indeed might be interesting there, but in the end it tends to end up in the Ancient Egypt section of nonfiction. Interesting since there are some details that were stretched a bit to fit the telling. At the end of the book Hartland admits freely that "The part of this book when Hatshepsut orders several statues from the sculptor is somewhat made up." I trust her as an author, but when I read that I kind of want to know how many other details were true. Did the Sphinx really get sent to America on a ship called The Cingalese Prince? I mean, it had to, right? Who would make that kind of thing up? A little Bibliography or section at the end recommending websites or books for further reading would not have been out of place here. I liked the "More History" but found myself wanting more for the interested kids out there.Hartland has a bit of a Maira Kalman style about her. That incredibly flat, near two-dimensional quality of her art. The book offers no hints on her style or what medium she uses, and her website is equally mum on the subject. What's kind of cool is that she has in her short picture book career already created books for Candlewick, Penguin, Chronicle, Bloomsbury, and now Big Apple Books. In the case of this particular book, Hartland has chosen to set many of the images here against relatively uncluttered backgrounds. There's always adequate room for her text, which doesn't sound impressive until you realize how long the cumulative collection of folks involved with the statue really are. After a while, you also begin to notice that each person's designation ("Department of Antiquities", "Egyptian Priests", etc.) is granted its own distinctive font. That's a detail that keeps the book visually stimulating, even if you don't notice it right off the bat.Of course the best news to leave you with is the fact that this is not Hartland's sole journey into this kind of nonfiction cumulative fare. Following up this title will be a similar book about how a dinosaur got to what I believe will be The Smithsonian, as well as a third title about how a painting (to be determined) got from artist to permanent gallery display. Clearly this is a fun concept with a lot of different applications one can work with and the first in the series is a true keeper. If you, like myself, are a bit sick of the endless identical Ancient Egypt children's fare out there and would like to see something original, Hartland has your number. Consider this a great way to bridge the past and the present for your kids.Ages 4-8.
If you've are lucky enough to walk up the stairs and into the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, you may have been able to see one of Hatshepsut's sphinxes. Hatshepsut was a pharaoh who ruled in ancient Egypt. There were many pharaohs and perhaps the most famous or memorable was King Tutankhamen, but Hatshepsut was undoubtedly the most unusual. Hatshepsut was a woman and that just wasn't supposed to happen in Egypt, but it did. There were "many monuments and pieces of art [that] were created in her honor." As with most pharaohs there were many different kinds of memorial objects that were created to be placed in their tombs or in front of their temples.Hatshepsut had artisans carve several stone sphinxes to stand "guard in front of her temple." She supervised her architect, Senenmut, who created her temple. Plans were drawn up to make statues, "including a set of six sphinxes." The granite was mined at an quarry in Aswan and with great difficulty this "HUGE block of granite" made its way down the Nile on a boat. Pharoah Hatshepsut's dream began to take shape and her magnificent temple was soon guarded by the six sphinxes. Later, after she died, her stepson, Thutmose III, had "all of the beautiful artwork, including the sphinxes," destroyed and buried in a pit. Who found these pieces? How were they put back together again and just how did that sphinx get to the Met?This is a fascinating glimpse at an unusual Egyptian pharaoh and how one of her sphinxes made it to the Met. Most people have never heard of Hatshepsut, but she is just starting to become known to the younger set and this is one of the more interesting portraits of her. The story is progressive and by the time we get to the end we know exactly how that sphinx made its way to 1000 Fifth Avenue so all of us can visit with him. For example, once we meet the archaeologist, "he uncovers the pit with the broken pieces of dozens of statues, including the sphinx that was ... dumped there by the stepson, marveled at by the Egyptian priests, chiseled by the sculptor and order by the pharaoh." At the end we are greeting by the docent and work our way back to the pharaoh. The artwork is marvelously quaint and very appealing. In the back of the book are additional facts and figures, more history, and we learn more about where the other sphinxes went.
This book helped me and my children to love the Met even more. The Sphinx is a beautiful statue but it is overshadowed by the huge Temple of Dendur looming over it. Now that we have read this book my kids love finding the little red numbers that identify it, and examine the parts of the statue that are real vs plaster. Did you know they intentionally make the plaster look different from the original so it's easier to tell the two apart? Because the Met has a room dedicated to Hatshepsut statues, this book helped us to value all of those works of art as well (this Sphinx is not in that room). It brings an ancient statue to life, helping us feel it's colorful history and understand it's significance. How often is a masterpiece broken to boxes and boxes of pieces, buried in a pit for thousands of years, discovered, shipped to New York, and put back together again for the world to admire once more? It's uncommon to find a book that covers an object's history as well as it's preservation. It helped us appreciate all the work gone into acquiring the many masterpieces that make the Met the amazing museum that it is. This is a really great book.
How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How the . . . Got to the Museum), by Jessie Hartland PDF
How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How the . . . Got to the Museum), by Jessie Hartland EPub
How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How the . . . Got to the Museum), by Jessie Hartland Doc
How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How the . . . Got to the Museum), by Jessie Hartland iBooks
How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How the . . . Got to the Museum), by Jessie Hartland rtf
How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How the . . . Got to the Museum), by Jessie Hartland Mobipocket
How The Sphinx Got To The Museum (How the . . . Got to the Museum), by Jessie Hartland Kindle
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar