In lively, full-color illustrations, this picture book chronicles the life ofa writer, scientist, inventor, and statesman.
An intrepid explorer and master navigator, christoper columbus embarked on a voyage of discovery in 1492. Sailing west across the unknown atlantic ocean in search of a new trade route to the east, columbus instead landed in the americas, opening up the new world to european colonists.
Clowns are juggling, the Bailor Brothers are swinging through the air, and wallet are disappering without a trace.
With these words, Thomas Edison explains how he developed ideas and turned them into useful inventions. Although he is most famous for inventing the lightbulb, Edison is credited with hundreds of inventions. The young boy who did poorly in school became one of the most famous men in America.
In December 1859, Abraham Lincoln wrote a brief history of his kife for a newspaper article. The next year, Loncoln would be elected to serve as president of a politically divided United Strates. His strong leadership would change American history.
This new version of the Caldecott-winning classic by illustrator David Small and author Judith St. George is updated with current facts and new illustrations to include our forty-second president, George W. Bush. There are now three Georges in the catalog of presidential names, a Bush alongside the presidential family tree, and a new face on the endpaper portraiture. Hilariously illustrated by…
Miyax rebel againts a home situation she finds in tolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass.
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