Almost everyone can sing along with the Beatles, but how many young readers know their whole story? Geoff Edgers, a Boston Globe reporter and hard-core Beatles fan, brings the Fab Four to life in this Who Was...? book. Readers will learn about their Liverpudlian childhoods, their first forays into rock music, what Beatlemania was like, and why they broke up. It's all here in an easy-to-read narrative with plenty of black-and-white illustrations!Almost everyone can sing along with the Beatles, but how many young readers know their whole story? Geoff Edgers, a Boston Globe reporter and hard-core Beatles fan, brings the Fab Four to life in this Who Was...? book. Readers will learn about their Liverpudlian childhoods, their first forays into rock music, what Beatlemania was like, and why they broke up. It's all here in an easy-to-read narrative with plenty of black-and-white illustrations!
Who was寒假系列第四本,語言難度系數(shù)較低,孩子不學(xué)生詞也基本可以通讀。精讀了第五第六章,樂隊的組建;第八第九章,樂隊的解散和成員們各自的生活。整本書的難度最高的章節(jié)是第九章,樂隊解散后成員們有了各自的追求,有忙于家庭,有忙于追求個人的音樂喜好,有熱心的參與慈善事業(yè),也有樂忠于自由表達政治觀點。Beatles的成員們從默默無聞到眾人皆知,到他們疲于奔波失去個人的生活、追求,再到重新找回自己的夢想,他們的心路歷程也對孩子很有觸動。