Sky Boys How They Built the Empire State Building

Name: Sky Boys How They Built the Empire State Building
Price: 4.65 USD
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ISBN: 9780375836107

ISBN-10: 0375836101

ISBN-13: 9780375836107

Edition: 2006

Authors: Deborah Hopkinson, James E. Ransome

List price: $17.95

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The acclaimed team that brought readers the IRA Children's Book Award--winning Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt is back with a riveting brick-by-brick account of how one of the most amazing accomplishments in American architecture came to be. It's 1930 and times are tough for Pop and his son. But look! On the corner of 34th Street and 5th Avenue, a building straight and simple as a pencil is being built in record time. Hundreds of men are leveling, shoveling, hauling. They're hoisting 60,000 tons of steal, stacking 10 million bricks, eating lunch in the clouds. And when they cut ribbon and the crowds rush in, the boy and his father will be among the first to zoom up to the top of the…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication date: 2/28/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 48
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990

James E. Ransome's highly acclaimed illustrations for Let My People Go won the NAACP Image Award. His other award-winning titles include Coretta Scott King Honor Book Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell, Deborah Hopkinson's Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, and Satchel Paige, written by his wife, Lesa. Mr. Ransome teaches illustration at Pratt Institute and lives in upstate New York with his family. Visit James at his Web site: www.jamesransome.com .