[.ca] The Hoover Dam: The Story of Hard Times, Tough People ... (ISBN 1931414025)

Illustrations are stunning...and well worth my time!:
While the information in the book was extremely accurate, it seemed a bit long for this style of a picture book. As an introduction to our Hoover Dam unit, I opted to focus, instead, on the absolutely stunning illustrations and allow my students to write their own words. Later in the unit, I made the book available to my students and many found it to be a wonderful reference tool. It was quite complimentary to McBride's: Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression yet a lot more appropriate for fourth graders. While Mann's book can be a great classroom reference for a Hoover Dam unit, it is not recommended as a read-aloud.