Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Book Summary Information
Author: Susan Campbell BartolettiEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-10-29
ISBN: 0618002715
Number of pages: 160
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Book Reviews of Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
Book Review: Great intro for younger readers
Summary: 4 Stars
This book describes the Great Hunger in a balanced way. It discusses the repeated crop failures -- potatoes were the staple of the Irish diet, due to the tenant farming situation of the time. (Tenant farming resembles, to me, sharecropping in the American South.)
The book alternates between describing the famine and the people affected by it and by the responses of the of both the British Government and the NGOs of the time. It highlights how the governmental policies failed and how many in Britain felt that the famine was God's justice against the Catholic Irish. It's this perfect storm of a natural disaster, governmental incompetence and prejudice that makes the Great Hunger so tragic. (IT;s also easy to draw parallels between the Great Hunger and the early responses to AIDS or to Katrina.)
Black Potatoes is a great introduction to the Irish Potato Famine, but it;s aimed more at middle or high school aged children.
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