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Boothroyd, Jennifer

From Typewriters to Text Messages: How Communication Has Changed

32 pp. | Lerner | August, 2011 | Library ISBN 978-0-7613-6745-1 $25.26

(4) K-3 Lightning Bolt Books: Comparing Past and Present series. Boothroyd provides simple then-and-now comparisons of communication methods. It's a kid-friendly approach, but the comparisons are cursory, and the examples are dumbed-down ("TV communicates with sound and pictures. Radio just uses sound.") Stock photos show present-day people (in color) and people of the past (in black and white) communicating with one another. Mini-biographies are appended. Reading list. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Sethany Rancier Alongi