THE GREAT FIRE

Author: Jim Murphy
Narrator: Taylor Mali
 

Audio Reviews:

Released January, 2003
 
"Award-winning author Jim Murphy meticulously researched the circumstances of one of the worst conflagrations in American history...and slam poet Mali conveys the terror, rage and hope reborn experienced by the stunned Chicagoans, making this Audio Bookshelf production one that will burn in memory long after the recording ends."
                     - Earphones Review, AudioFile
 
 
"Vivid details, personal narratives, and interesting facts make Murphy's carefully researched nonfiction books come alive in audio format.  Narrator Mali preserves a careful balance between a dignified solemnity befitting calamities that claimed the lives and property of so many and a  you-are-there reportorial style that extracts every ounce of narrative tension and blazing drama.  Parents will find themselves as enthralled as their children with these stellar audio productions."
                     - Horn Book, May/June 2003
 
 
"This is excellent social history as well as suspenseful storytelling."
                     - School Library Journal, May 2003
 
 
Other Book Awards:
·Orbis Pictus Award
ALA Notable Children's Book
·ALA Best Book for YA/Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers
·Boston Globe -Horn Book Award
·Book Links Best Book
Starred Reviews: Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Booklist, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Horn Book.

SYNOPSIS:

This Newbery Honor Book provides a dramatic and riveting listening experience for all ages as performed by award-winning narrator Taylor Mali.  A colossal disaster, the Great Fire of 1871 caused damaged so profound to Chicago that few people believed the city could ever rise again.
  

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