JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION 2018 National Council of Teacher\'s of English (NCTE) Notable Children\'s Book in Language Arts A NON-POLITICAL Fake News Story FOR KIDS: EXAMPLE OF 1ST AMENDMENT FREE PRESS ISSUES Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper? Early in August 1937, a News flash came: a sea monster had been spotted lurking off the shore of Nantucket Island.
Read this incredible true Story of how Tony Sarg and the press knowingly fooled everyone with Fake news..
A vocabulary list defines relevant words.
A Timeline lists actual events in the order they occurred.
Quotes from Thomas Jefferson make it clear that Fake News has always been one of the costs of a free press.
Constitution.
Back matter discusses the freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.
S.
The Fake News generated was valued at thousands of dollars of free publicity.
Tony Sarg, famous as the inventor of the Macy\'s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons, Macy\'s officials and newsmen cooperated in a huge publicity stunt.
This nonfiction picture book is a perfect tool to discuss non-political Fake News stories.
Islanders ran to the beach and couldn\'t believe their eyes.
On August 18, News spread across the island: the sea monster had been captured.
Discussion swirled about raising a hunting party.
Photographs were sent to prominent biologists for their opinion.
Then, footprints were found on a Nantucket beach.
Across the nation, people shivered in fear.
As eyewitness account piled up, newspaper stories of the sea monster spread quickly.
Eyewitnesses swore this wasn\'t a whale, but some new, fearsome creature.
Historically, the Massachusetts island had served as port for whaling ships.
JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION 2018 National Council of Teacher\'s of English (NCTE) Notable Children\'s Book in Language Arts A NON-POLITICAL Fake News Story FOR KIDS: EXAMPLE OF 1ST AMENDMENT FREE PRESS ISSUES Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper? Early in August 1937, a News flash came: a sea monster had been spotted lurking off the shore of Nantucket Island