Journalists

Book Features:
• Ages 9-15, Grades 4-9
• 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches
• Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures
• Includes post-reading questions and activities
• Reading/teaching tips and glossary included

Beyond the Battlefield: In Beyond the Battlefield: Journalists, 4th—9th graders go beyond the traditional battlefield to uncover the amazing tales told from the lens or perspective of war journalists, reporters, and photojournalists.

Action-Packed Stories: Not all war heroes are fighting on the battlefield. Young readers learn about amazing war journalists, reporters, and photographers who risked their lives to bring important stories and imagery to life for people back home.

Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided post-reading questions and fun activities.

Leveled Books: Part of the Beyond the Battlefield series, the grade-level text and full-color pictures make this children’s book an engaging story with fun and interesting facts about war reporters and photojournalists.

Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Every war requires more than just the efforts of traditional soldiers. Some heroes’ stories are not appreciated during their time.

It takes a lot of guts to be a war journalist, and this offering from the Beyond the Battlefield series (4 titles) profiles six groundbreaking war correspondents. Subjects include two women—Marguerite Higgins, a white American, during WWII, and white, French-born Catherine Leroy during Vietnam—as well as Sha Fei from China (the 1937 Sino-Japanese War); Vincent Ottley, an African American civil rights activist and reporter (WWII); and the well-known Hungarian American Robert Capa, (also WWII). Short chapters concentrate on wartime activities, featuring simple sentences, embedded vocabulary definitions, and archival photos, often the journalists' original work. The text also provides sufficient context so that readers understand why these individuals and their contributions were so important. No source notes or bibliography, but the engaging stories and checks for understanding make this a good choice for newly independent readers. — Kathleen McBroom, Booklist

Every war requires more than just the efforts of traditional soldiers. Some heroes’ stories are not appreciated during their time. Let’s go Beyond the Battlefield to uncover tales of daring reporters and captivating photojournalists.