Akira to Zoltan: Twenty-Six Men Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee

Chin-Lee, C. (2006). Akira to Zoltan: Twenty-six men who changed the world. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge.

Summary:
This book describes twenty-six influential men in alphabetical order. The text describes painters, architects, Olympians, senators, scientists, and ocean explorers. Each page describes a different man with wonderful illustrations and a quote from the person.

Ages:
3rd grade through 6th

Credibility of Author:
The author graduated from Harvard University and had help from a lot of people in writing the book (they are listed in the back of the text).

National Standards that this book relates to:
The Social Studies standards addressed are People, Places, Environments, and Culture.

Access Features:
The book has a table of contents in the front and the men discussed in the book are in alphabetical order. In the back of the book are a selected bibliography, an author’s note, and acknowledgements,

Description of the Illustrations:
The illustrations in this book are amazing and unique. They were all created using a large variety of media.

My response to the book:
This book gave a little information about a large variety of men. It was easy to read, but did get old reading after a while.

How I would use this book in my class:
I would use this book during a social studies unit or a science unit where we are discussing particular types of jobs. I would read the page that connected to what we were discussing, but would not read it to my class in it’s entirety at one time.