One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fed a playmate a mixture of worms and water to see if she could fly! Here’s an accessible, appealing biography with 100 black-and-white illustrations.
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My six year old son loves for me to read these books to him. The thing I like about them is that there is an illustration every page you turn. My son is not quite ready to absorb a long chapter book with no illustrations, yet he is past the picture book, so this is a good step towards chapter books. He is excited that he is getting chapter books like his older sister, yet they are not too lofty for him to understand. They are not from a Christian history perspective, although I have not found any of the content to be at all offensive.
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I have an 8 y.o. son who is very inquisitive, but getting him to read voluntarily on his own is somewhat of a chore. I got him this book for Christmas, and he read it on his own,not wanting to put it down in the morning, before his carpool arrived. After he finished the book, he asked,"Mom, can we get the one about John F. Kennedy?" Enough said.
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Great Introduction to Edison,
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Edison's contributions to modern society are impressive: the light bulb, phonograph, improvements to the telegraph, telephone and motion picture technology. Very enjoyable book!
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One day the Edisons couldn't find six-year-old Al, as his family called him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Menlo Park, West Orange, New York City, Western Union, Port Huron, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, New Jersey, Black Maria New!
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One day the Edisons couldn't find six-year-old Al, as his family called him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Menlo Park, West Orange, New York City, Western Union, Port Huron, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, New Jersey, Black Maria New!
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- Mark Twain (Little Brown Notebooks) by MQ Publications in Back Matter
- Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by T. John Morse on page 50
- Thomas Alva Edison (Pioneers in Change) by Vincent Buranelli in Back Matter
- Helen Keller (What Was It Like?) by Jane Polcovar on page 77
- Thomas Edison: Inventor of the Age of Electricity (Lerner Biography) by Linda Tagliaferro in Back Matter
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