Tonight on the Titanic (1999)

This book ( Four Stars) is a wonderful chapter book to begin children on. The novel has beautiful pencil drawings as well and would be a good read when learning about the Titanic. ( )

I picked this book up expecting to feel brain cells dying as I read it. I was very wrong; I can see why my students enjoy this series so much. It's very well written (albeit extremely simplistic) and interesting. It was an extremely quick read and is educational, to boot! ( )

This book is about two kids who go through time to find a puzzle.The kids name are Jack(The boy) Anna(The girl) Jack and Anna are twins who live in pennsylvania,USA. The kids go to a histroric day in the past. They go to the Titanic. The day that the biggest boat in the world got sunked to the ground. They had to find a piece of a puzzle to figure out the mystery. Well Jack and Anna are on a boat that hits a iceberg that starts to make the boat sink and Jack and Anna are running out of time to find the puzzle piece.They make it back to pennsylvania alive with the Puzzle poem since they discovered the puzzle. Now they have to go to a different place which is the Civil War.

This book was good because since I was 7 years old I read them and I still read them today. Further thoughout the series the length of the book got fatter as in more pages. Book #40 between 100+123 of a book length. One thing that I did not like is that the author would explore the earth then write the books is a geologist. I say that because she has a note from author saying that she did this.Thats why I say this book is nice. ( )

Summary:
This is about two children who have a magic tree house and they can point to a book and go inside it. They had to go on a mission on a ship lost at sea and ended up on the Titanic. It proved to be an interesting night as they saved two other children that didn't know the ship was sinking. They received a pocket watch from the older girl they saved and brought it back with them. The pocket watch was a gift and meant to break a spell the dog was under.

Personal Reaction:
I thought this book was an interesting way to see history. I think death can be a hard thing for children to understand so I think it would depend on the age group if I would read this book to children. Ultimately I liked how it seemed to keep true to the history of the Titanic.

Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. Teach a lesson about the history of the Titanic
2. Write stories about if you could go into any book what would it be and why. ( )

This early chapter book explains the history of the sinking of the Titanic and the children help a brother and sister get out of the third passage. Good basic introduction to history.