Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Week 5 Reading Summary


The Moment written by Sean Doherty

This week I read a picture book called The Moment. It captures some of surfing’s most renowned and beautiful happenings through the lenses of the world’s finest contemporary surf photographers. Sean Doherty, one of Australia’s best surf journalists, has gathered a series of compelling surfing images and the true stories behind them. He describes The Moment as a book “where the great surfing photo and the classic surf story meet”.

The stories behind each of the incredible surf images are exciting, real and have you re-living ‘the moment’ as told by the surfers and photographers involved. These short stories explain what happened before the photo was taken, what happened after that split second, what was going through the surfers mind, etc. The Moment would appeal to adolescent and adult readers who are interested in surfing. Each story is only a few paragraphs long, however the writing is small and the language used is more suited to mature readers.

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