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The Great Serum Race |
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The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail
Booklist review: Grades 2-4. This picture book for older
children tells the full story of the legendary 1925 race to Nome,
Alaska, to deliver diphtheria antitoxin serum. The run was actually a
relay, completed by many mushers and teams (a chart showing the name of
the musher and the distance covered is included in the back of the
book), although a dog named Balto seems to have the best press agent;
his participation in the race is memorialized with a statue in Central
Park and a feature-length movie. There's a lot of text here, but
Miller's telling is exciting, and her details are compelling.
Particularly outstanding are Van Zyle's acrylic-on-Masonite
illustrations that perfectly capture the icy chill and dim light of the
Arctic. For more history about the race, suggest also Lew Freedman's
Father of the Iditarod (1999). Todd Morning. Copyright ©
American Library Association. All rights reserved |
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