A Wizard from the Start: The Incredible Boyhood and Amazing Inventions of Thomas Edison - Hardcover

Don Brown, Brown

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547194870 ISBN 13: 9780547194875

Verlag: HMH Books, 2010

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"Focusing on the great inventor's youth, roughly from age eight to mid-20s, this anecdotal picture-book biography is both engaging and accessible. The concise narrative is sprinkled with original quotes and is well suited as a read-aloud...Brown's signature sketches combine digital imagery and watercolors and reflect the period costume and key moments in Edison's early life."--School Library Journal, starred review

"Brown (Teedie: The Story of Young Teddy Roosevelt) offers a folksy, episodic picture book biography of Edison's early years, highlighting his entrepreneurial spirit and love of experimentation, while incorporating a wealth of fascinating, little-known anecdotes about the accomplished inventor."--Publishers Weekly

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A wizard from the start, Thomas Edison had a thirst for knowledge, taste for mischief, and hunger for discoverybut his success was made possible by his boundless energy. At age fourteen he coined his personal motto: The More to do, the more to be done,” and then went out and did: picking up skills and knowledge at every turn. When learning about things that existed wasn't enough, he dreamed up new inventions to improve the world.

From humble beginnings as a farmer’s son, selling newspapers on trains and reading through public libraries shelf by shelf, Tom began his inventing career as a boy and became a legend as a man.

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• Verlag: HMH Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0547194870
• ISBN 13: 9780547194875
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32