![]() The narrative also highlights the fact that when people spend time putting items or people down, instead of celebrating strengths, that riches go unnoticed. Tracy Hall is a gem of a biography – in fact it is a diamond!Ībsolutely love the dual narrative in this book because it shows how something, graphite, and someone, Tracy Hall, both unappreciated in their younger life can turn into treasures. Tracy Hall (Holt's grandfather) from his childhood through his invention of his diamond-producing machine.Īll in all, The Diamond and the Boy: The Creation of Diamonds The Life of H. While with the other narrative shares the life of H. In dual narratives Holt describes how diamonds are naturally made, harvested, and eventually cut and polished. The premise of the book is rather straightforward. Fleck uses full-bleed spreads of bold colors and simple lines, rendered with pencil and digitally, to effectively emphasize the scope and significance of both creations, cannily varying the palette to emphasize the parallel structure. Backmatter includes scientific note, biographical note, timeline, bibliography. In two, parallel free-verse narratives, Holt describes both histories with the verso telling how diamonds are naturally made and the recto describes the process Hall used to make artificial diamonds. Holt's text is rather simplistic, straightforward, and informative. Howard Tracy Hall was an American physical chemist and the first person who grew a synthetic diamond by a reproducible, verifiable, and witnessed process, using a press of his own design. Holt tells the stories of both the creation of natural diamonds and the invention of synthetic diamonds. Tracy Hall is a children's picture book written by Hannah Holt and illustrated by Jay Fleck. ![]() The Diamond and the Boy: The Creation of Diamonds The Life of H. This might work well in a classroom setting, but it's awkward for a lap read. There were a couple of design choices in this book that I didn't love, especially the page that required me to turn the book sideways halfway through. This book would be great for kids who like some of my son's other favorites: OVER AND UNDER THE SNOW by Kate Messner, UNDER WATER, UNDER EARTH by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski, and FLYING DEEP by Michelle Cusolito. ![]() I suspect he's going to ask to read this one over and over, and then come up with more and more complex questions for the next few weeks. My son was super involved in the story and full of questions ("Is that REAL?"). Its format is so complex I initially thought it wouldn't be a good selection for my four-year-old, but the prose was so smooth and beautiful that I tried it. Hall, the man who invented the process for making artificial diamonds. THE DIAMOND AND THE BOY is a unique, masterfully written picture book that simultaneously describes the process of natural diamond formation and the life of Tracy J.
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