Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
Book Details
Author(s)Davis, Kathryn Gibbs
PublisherHMH Books for Young Readers
ISBN / ASIN0547959222
ISBN-139780547959221
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank72,636
CategoryJuvenile Nonfiction
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Orbis Pictus Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Capturing an engineer's creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world's most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel.
A fun, fact-filled text by Kathryn Gibbs Davis combines with Gilbert Ford's dazzling full-color illustrations to transport readers to the 1893 World's Fair, where George Ferris and his big, wonderful wheel lifted passengers to the skies for the first time.
Orbis Pictus Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Capturing an engineer's creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world's most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel.
A fun, fact-filled text by Kathryn Gibbs Davis combines with Gilbert Ford's dazzling full-color illustrations to transport readers to the 1893 World's Fair, where George Ferris and his big, wonderful wheel lifted passengers to the skies for the first time.
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