Monica Kulling

Broschiertes Buch

To the Rescue! Garrett Morgan Underground

Beschreibung

Shares the inspirational story of African-American inventor Garrett Morgan, whose incredible safety hood became a forerunner to the gas masks that saved thousands of soldiers during World War I.

Autor

MONICA KULLING is a poet who has published over forty books for children, including picture books, adaptations of classic novels, and biographies. Known for introducing biography to children who are just learning to read, she has written about Harriet Tubman, Henry Ford, Houdini, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Amelia Earhart, among others. Her award-winning Great Idea Series features biographies of inventors and their captivating inventions. She is also the author of the hilarious Merci Mister Dash! and Mister Dash and the Cupcake Calamity. Visit her website at www.monicakulling.ca. DAVID PARKINS is an award-winning illustrator of more than fifty books for children. After studying wildlife illustration in Wales and general illustration at the Lincoln College of Art, he became a freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in The Guardian, the Toronto Star, Bloomberg Business Week, Nature, The Economist, and in the British children's comic The Beano. He does a regular editorial cartoon for the Globe and Mail and is the critically acclaimed illustrator of three other books in Monica Kulling's Great Idea Series: In the Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps It Up, shortlisted for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award in Children's Illustration, Going Up! Elisha Otis's Trip to the Top and Spic-and-Span! Lillian Gilbreth's Wonder Kitchen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tundra Books
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Altersempfehlung: 5 bis 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 198mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 158g
• ISBN-13: 9781101918821
• ISBN-10: 1101918829
• Artikelnr.: 44945323