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    Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion
    Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion
    Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion
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    Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion

    By Chris Barton and Victo Ngai

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    A visually stunning look at innovative and eye-popping measures used to protect ships during World War I.

    During World War I, British and American ships were painted with bold colors and crazy patterns from bow to stern. Why would anyone put such eye-catching designs on ships?

    Desperate to protect ships from German torpedo attacks, British lieutenant-commander Norman Wilkinson proposed what became known as dazzle. These stunning patterns and colors were meant to confuse the enemy about a ship's speed and direction. By the end of the war, more than four thousand ships had been painted with these mesmerizing designs.

    Author Chris Barton and illustrator Victo Ngai vividly bring to life this little-known story of how the unlikely and the improbable became just plain dazzling.

    "[A] conversational, compelling, and visually arresting story . . ."—starred, Publishers Weekly

    "Barton's lively text is matched by Ngai's engrossing artwork, which employs dazzle techniques throughout her inventive spreads."—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

    New York Public Library Best Books for Kids

    Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateSep 1, 2017
    ISBN9781512472172
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    Chris Barton

    Chris Barton really loves writing books such as the bestseller Shark vs. Train, the Robert F. Sibert Honor Book The Day-Glo Brothers, the Mighty Truck series, and Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer's Alphabet. Chris and his family live in Austin, Texas.

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    • 4/5
      Cool, large format book with neat illustrations. Each two page spread is a single illustration, full of detail and interest. The ships themselves, the ship models, and other things connected with the dazzle camouflange are actually really appealing to the eye. The opponents in the war are personified as enormous figures battling it out on a map of Britain and the Continent. These are good, but the picture of Britannia sorrowing over her starving children, and then rejoicing as they pig out, doesn't work so well for me. The endnotes, which seem customary now in books of this type, are also quite interesting.
    • 5/5
      great history!!

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