Thai cave rescue operation to be told in kids' book for middle-schoolers : US media

 

File photo : Marc Aronson//Rutgers, School of Communication and Information website

 

The dramatic and marathon cave rescue of 12 Mu Pa boys and their assistant coach will be told in a middle-grade nonfiction book, according to USA Today online.
 

The story of the team's entrapment and subsequent rescue – complete with happy ending – riveted the world.“Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue,” a non-fiction account, will be published on March 19, 2019 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, a division of Simon & Schuster, the online reported.

 

Author Marc Aronson would seem well-equipped to tell the story. He’s also the author of the 2011 nonfiction middle-grade book "Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert."

 

Atheneum said “Rising Water” will tell the back story behind the complex, dangerous rescue operation by a team of international divers.

 

 

The boys, ages 11-16, became trapped without food by rising flood waters after entering the Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai on June 23. They were found on July 2 by divers, but it took another week to devise a plan to extricate the boys and their 25-year-old assistant coach.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30350723

 

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That's great. 

I hope the boys will be allowed by the state to have their 5 minutes of fame. The way the state and the hospital have been ordering them around, demanding they don't talk to anyone, demanding they are hidden away, is probably more traumatic than the cave adventure. Locked away in the hospital away from their families. Now locked away at the temple. Their story will be told, with or without them. The state can't dictate around the world. 

2 hours ago, greenchair said:

That's great. 

I hope the boys will be allowed by the state to have their 5 minutes of fame. The way the state and the hospital have been ordering them around, demanding they don't talk to anyone, demanding they are hidden away, is probably more traumatic than the cave adventure. Locked away in the hospital away from their families. Now locked away at the temple. Their story will be told, with or without them. The state can't dictate around the world. 

It thinks it can.

Never mind thirteen trapped in a cave - what about the thirteen police it took on an expense paid trip to Europe to demand an ex-monk was handed over to them?

They didn't leave the "foreigners' cave" with what they went in to search for - and that was only one person needing "rescuing".

 

Making learning exciting and insightful.  Wonderful news

A great story of bravery and working together will be reworked to suit don the devil nouveau americana

No doubt the kids will morph into blond haired blue eyed paragons of American virtue who pray to some born again tv evangelical scam artist . The rescuers will ALL be SEALS.

 

 

6 minutes ago, Expatthailover said:

A great story of bravery and working together will be reworked to suit don the devil nouveau americana

No doubt the kids will morph into blond haired blue eyed paragons of American virtue who pray to some born again tv evangelical scam artist . The rescuers will ALL be SEALS.

 

Yes, the ideal animal given the watery conditions.
A St. Bernard would be no good at all - the kids were all too young to drink spirits.

 

Edited July 25, 20188 yr by bluesofa

It was never that dramatic. Must make a note not to buy it. 

this is really disgusting everyone coming in like roaches to profit. many people get stuck in caves every year all over southeast asia.