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So You Want To Be An Inventor?

So You Want To Be An Inventor? Hardcover - 2002

by St. George, Judith; Illustrated By David Small

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St. George and Small, the Caldecott Medal-winning team who created So You Want to Be President?, are back with another spirited and witty look at history-this time focusing on the inventors and inventions who have given us lightbulbs, automobiles, and all the other things that keep the world humming.

So You Want to Be an Inventor? features some of the world's best-known inventors-Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Eli Whitney-as well as lesser-known geniuses like Georges de Mestral (inventor of Velcro), Wilhelm Roentgen (inventor of X rays), and Hedy Lamarr (inventor of a system that became the basis for satellite communication-who knew?). Whether you're a dreamer or a loner, a copycat or a daredevil, this book might just inspire readers to invent something that could change the world!

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New York: Philomel Books, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 53 Pp. Illustrated Boards. First Printing. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Signed By The Illustrator On The Half-Title Page. With The Bookstore's "Personally Autographed..." Wraparound Band.
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  • Title So You Want To Be An Inventor?
  • Author St. George, Judith; Illustrated By David Small
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 56
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Philomel Books, New York
  • Date 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 046242
  • ISBN 9780399235931 / 0399235930
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.74 x 9.3 x 0.43 in (29.82 x 23.62 x 1.09 cm)
  • Ages 07 to 10 years
  • Grade levels 2 - 5
  • Reading level 910
  • Library of Congress subjects Inventors, Inventions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001055447
  • Dewey Decimal Code 608

Summary

St. George and Small, the Caldecott Medal-winning team who created So You Want to Be President?, are back with another spirited and witty look at history-this time focusing on the inventors and inventions who have given us lightbulbs, automobiles, and all the other things that keep the world humming.

So You Want to Be an Inventor? features some of the world's best-known inventors-Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Eli Whitney-as well as lesser-known geniuses like Georges de Mestral (inventor of Velcro), Wilhelm Roentgen (inventor of X rays), and Hedy Lamarr (inventor of a system that became the basis for satellite communication-who knew?). Whether you're a dreamer or a loner, a copycat or a daredevil, this book might just inspire readers to invent something that could change the world!

From the publisher

Judith St. George lives in Connecticut.
David Small grew up in Detroit, studied Art and English at Wayne State University and completed his graduate studies in art at Yale. He went on to teach drawing and printmaking at the college level for fourteen years, during which time his first book Eulalie and The Hopping Head was published. David no longer teaches but has continued illustrating.

David has illustrated twenty-seven picture books, and has also provided the text for six of them. His Imogene’s Antlers has been featured for fifteen years on PBS’ “Reading Rainbow.” Fenwicks Suit presently is in production by Fox 2000 Four of David’s bestselling picture books were written by his wife, Sarah Stewart. Their book The Gardener was the recipient of 17 awards including the Christopher Medal and the 1998 Caldecott Honor Award.

David’s books have been translated into six languages. He also has worked years as a freelance editorial artist, with his drawings appearing regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. His reviews of picture books appear frequently in The New York Times Book Review.

Of his beginnings as an artist David has this to say: “Detroit is not where I would have lived given the choice as a child. Then, I would much rather have lived in Candy Land. But the fact is Detroit—a harsh, industrial—made art and music all the more sweet in my young life, more urgent and more of a necessity. Seen in that light, Detroit was the perfect place for me to grow up.”

David Small and Sarah Stewart make their home in Michigan in an 1833 Greek Revival house on ten acres of land along the banks of the St. Joseph River. Their house is on the National Register of Historic Places, and their property marks the northern boundary of the Great Tallgrass Prairie.

First line

Are you a kid who likes to tinker with machines that clink and clank, levers that pull, bells that ring, cogs that grind, switches that turn on and off, wires that vibrate, dials that spin?

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About the author

Judith St. George has published dozens of successful nonfiction books for children, including the Caldecott Medal-winning"So You Want to Be President?"and the historical Turning Point series, including"You re On Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt";"Stand Tall, Abe Lincoln"; and"Take the Lead, George Washington." You can visit her online at www.judithstgeorge.com."

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