Picture book of the week

Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny The Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius by Pliny, illustrated by Barry Moser
Getty Publications, 2007, 40 pages
ISBN: 0892369000

I have never been to the Getty Museum in L.A., but our children who have attended TAC Summer Program greatly enjoyed visiting the unique and outstanding museum. Here is a book published by the Getty that I found at the library last week, another fine example of what picture books can provide for academic enrichment for any age!

Publisher's info:

Barry Moser's extraordinarily detailed and evocative relief engravings decorate this translation of Pliny the Younger's two famous letters to Tacitus about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the death of his uncle, Pliny the Elder. Printed in black and white, the engravings are works of art that illustrate various descriptions in the letters.

The text includes a brief description of the eruption of the volcano, concise biographies of Tacitus and of both Plinys, and a summary of how the texts of the two letters have survived until today.