Stacy McAnulty

Gebundenes Buch

Are We There Yet?

The First Road Trip Across the USA

Illustrator: Baddeley, Elizabeth

Beschreibung

"It's May of 1903 and Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson is gearing up for the journey of a lifetime: the first road trip across the USA! After a heated debate about the power of 'horseless carriages, ' AKA cars, Dr. Jackson accepts a $50 bet that he can make the trip from San Francisco to New York in less than three months. Sure, he doesn't quite know how to drive and no one else has been able to make the trip before him, but Dr. Jackson knows this time will be different. All he needs is his trusty car Vermont, his handy mechanic Sewall Crocker, and their team mascot Bud the bulldog, of course"--

Autor

Stacy McAnulty is a mechanical engineer turned children’s book author who dreams of someday being a dog therapist, a correspondent for The Daily Show , an astronaut, or a Green Bay Packers coach. She’s the author of the chapter book series The Dino Files and Goldie Blox, the bestselling middle grade novel The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, and picture books including Are We There Yet? illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley and  Excellent Ed illustrated by Julia Sarcone-Roach, which won an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor. When not writing, Stacy likes to listen to NPR, bake triple-chocolate cupcakes, and eat triple-chocolate cupcakes. Originally from upstate New York, she now lives in Kernersville, North Carolina, with her three kids, three dogs, and one husband. Elizabeth Baddeley is the illustrator of the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsberg Makes Her Mark, written by Debbie Levy. She also illustrated A Woman in the House (and Senate): How Women Came to the United States Congress, Broke Down Barriers, and Changed the Country; The Good Fight: The Feuds of the Founding Fathers (and How They Shaped the Nation); An Inconvenient Alphabet; and Are We There Yet?. Elizabeth graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City with a degree in illustration and currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Learn more at EBaddeley.com. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Altersempfehlung: 4 bis 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 259mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781665937474
• ISBN-10: 1665937475
• Artikelnr.: 70954769