Lynn Curlee

Trains

Illustrator: Curlee, Lynn

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There are few things more exciting than the sound of a train chugging through the country-side. First, steam engines hissed billowing clouds into the air, then gleaming diesel locomotives pulled boxcars, freight cars, and sleek passenger cars north, south, east, and west. Trains have been getting people and things to where they need to go for almost two centuries, and have long been a symbol of adventure and possibility. The story of how trains began barreling across the landscape is one of new machines, new inventions, new jobs, and new hopes. Railroad travel started with steam-powered wagons on a tramway and developed into a technology that would change the day-to-day life of Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- and forever connect one coast to another. This bold and graphic look at trains and railroads by award-winning author and illustrator Lynn Curlee traces the tracks back to where they began. All aboard!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 11 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 282mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781416948483
• ISBN-10: 1416948481
• Artikelnr.: 25879724

Autorenporträt

Lynn Curlee, who received a Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book Award for Brooklyn Bridge, comes from a family of intense sports fans. His other books include Liberty, Ships of the Air, Into the Ice: The Story of Arctic Exploration, Rushmore, The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Capital, and, most recently, Parthenon. He lives on the North Fork of Long Island, New York.