A fascinating sticker book featuring all aspects of the ship's famous story, from construction to details of the crew and passengers and how the ship met its tragic end just over a hundred years ago. With over 100 stickers of photographs, posters and mementos from the voyage, this is a detailed insight into an ever-fascinating historical event. Internet links take readers to specially selected websites where they can listen to eyewitness accounts and zoom in on photos of the wreck.
Emily Bone grew up among the rolling hills of Hampshire, writing stories about the ants and birds in her garden. After studying English at Cambridge, she found her dream job at Usborne in 2007. Since then, she's written about many weird and wonderful creatures, along with books on space, fashion and food.
I bought this book after originally seeing it advertised on Amazon and then in the Bookpeople catalogue. I was thinking this would be a great book to relive my childhood with. I used to have these kind of sticker books when I was young - think they were dolls and dogs. And you had to find the correct shape of sticker to fit in the correct gap in the book.
I was majorly disappointed with this. In fact, I've never actually completed it, and have just put it away. Somewhere. For starters, the stickers can't be taken out of the book (they could in my old ones that I remember), so you spend endless minutes flicking back and forth between the book pages and the sticker pages. And I was quite disappointed when I saw how easy it was to complete. Yes, OK, I'm getting on a bit now to be doing sticker books, but this was so simple, a young child could easily complete it, and still be bored. The book pages have the actual pictures of the stickers where they should be. Not an outline, not a guess at what sticker should go there, the actual image. Sure, a little paler than the sticker image, but still the same. It pretty much defeats the purpose of even putting in the stickers.
For a youngster with a fascination for Titanic, this maybe of slight interest. Otherwise, forget it.