The Edmund Fitzgerald: The Song of the Bell

by Kathy-jo Wargin

Book Overview

Leaving port from Superior, Wisconsin on a sunny November day, the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald is looking forward to a routine crossing of deep Lake Superior. Heading for a port in Cleveland, the giant transport ship is loaded with ore that will be used to build cars. But disaster is building in the wind as a gale storm begins to track after the great ship. This suspenseful retelling of the last hours of the doomed vessel pays homage to all sailors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585361267
• ISBN13: 9781585361267
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

Excellent!!

The book itself is in like new condition. The story is beautiful and the illustrations as well. It will be part of my classroom library to share history, especially Michigan, with grade school students.

fact's about edmand

I bought this book as a gift for my 10yr old son.He loves learning about the sunken ship.The Great Lakes are apart of where he comes from so therefore I belive give a child all the info you can.

Retelling the doomed voyage of a ship

Knowledgeably written by Kathy-Jo Wargin and expertly illustrated by Gisjbert Van Frankenhuyzen, The Edmund Fitzgerald: The Song Of The Bell is the suspenseful picture book retelling of the doomed voyage of a ship and the tragic end for the 29 men aboard it. Told with compassion and historical accuracy, this true story concludes with the retrieval of the ship's bell from the ocean depths and the placing of it in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point, Michigan, so that the loved ones of those who died with the sinking of that great ship could have a place to go and remember their cherished memories of those who were lost.