I, Galileo

Name: I, Galileo
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ISBN: 9780375867538

ISBN-10: 0375867538

ISBN-13: 9780375867538

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bonnie Christensen

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Acclaimed author-illustrator Bonnie Christensen adopts the voice of Galileo and lets him tell his own tale in this outstanding picture book biography. The first person narration gives this book a friendly, personal feel that makes Galileo's remarkable achievements and ideas completely accessible to young readers. And Christensen's artwork glows with the light of the stars he studied.Galileo's contributions were so numerous—the telescope! the microscope!—and his ideas so world-changing—the sun-centric solar system!—that Albert Einstein called him "the father of modern science." But in his own time he was branded a heretic and imprisoned in his home. He was a man who insisted on his right to…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication date: 6/12/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 40
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English