Road Trip!: Camping with the Four Vagabonds: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John B, de Friddell, Claudia. Editorial Calkins Creek, tapa pasta dura en inglés, 2022

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Nombre: Road Trip!: Camping with the Four Vagabonds: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John B
Marca: Calkins Creek

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Join Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs on their pioneering camping trips during the early 1900s in this energetic and entertaining nonfiction picture-book adventure.

After years of inventing things that other people needed, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford realized there was something they needed—a vacation! So, the famous inventors packed up Ford's Model T and invited their good friends Harvey Firestone and John Burroughs to join them as "the Four Vagabonds" hit America's back roads to enjoy the country's natural beauty, fireside chats, and frolicking fun with friends—all while inspiring future generations to invent camping adventures of their own.

Buckle yourself in as Claudia Friddell and Jeremy Holmes take you on a fun, creative, and certainly unique road trip with America's most famous vagabonds—Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs. The colorful and spirited illustrations, the stories of the Vagabonds' bivouacking travels and campsite escapades, and the well-researched bibliography makes Road Trip! a great addition to any child's library! Matt Andres, curatorial registrar, Edison and Ford Winter Estates

From School Library Journal

Gr 3–6—An entertaining and informative picture book describing the camping adventures of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, John Burroughs, and Harvey Firestone. These famous men formed a friendship and shared a great love of the outdoors, calling themselves the Four Vagabonds. Their famous road trips inspired other Americans to discover the treasures in nature with a then favorite pastime—recreational camping. The illustrations are bright and detailed with humorous speech bubbles in some panels and the four friends depicted as amusing caricatures. The afterword includes a detailed history of these four fellows, where they traveled, and why their adventures eventually came to an end. There are also photographs of the camping trips, their firsthand accounts, as well as accounts from some of the people they met on their trips. A detailed resource list is included for further research. This is a dynamic and engaging book to complement units on inventors, nature, and camping. It is sure to inspire further exploration of these famous men in history.

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"An entertaining and informative picture book describing the camping adventures of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, John Burroughs, and Harvey Firestone....This is a dynamic and engaging book to complement units on inventors, nature, and camping. It is sure to inspire further exploration of these famous men in history." School Library Journal, starred review

"Three titans of industry (and one writer) rough it... illustrations in a muted palette, reminiscent of sepia films highlighted with green and orange, help make this feel like an old-timey film. [C]hildren, especially those with an interest in history, will enjoy this lighthearted but informational text." Kirkus Reviews

"[Y]ounger readers will enjoy Friddell's sprightly account of how an American supergroup—Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone (think: tires), and nature writer John Burroughs, with occasional hangers-on li

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Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 1 cm x 24 cm x 29 cm
Modelo: 9781684372720
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
EAN: 9781684372720
ASIN: 1684372720
GTIN: 9781684372720
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta dura
Editorial: Calkins Creek
Titulo del libro: Road Trip!: Camping with the Four Vagabonds: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John B
Autor: Friddell, Claudia
Fecha de publicación: 2022-10-11 00:00:00
Idioma: Inglés
Editor: Calkins Creek
Número de páginas: 40
ISBN-13: 9781684372720
Edad mínima sugerida: 1
Genero musical: Infantil - Juvenil
Contenido del paquete: 1 libro
SKU: 9781684372720