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Crossing on Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships, and a Journey to the New World
Contributor(s): Macaulay, David (Author)

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ISBN: 1596434775     ISBN-13: 9781596434776
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Transportation - Boats, Ships & Underwater Craft
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History - General
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology - Inventions
Dewey: 623.824
LCCN: 2018039860
Age Level: 10-14
Grade Level: 5-9
Lexile Measure: 1200(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 10" W x 10.6" L (1.90 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Booklist 04/15/2019 pg. 39
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2019
School Library Journal 05/01/2019 pg. 117
Shelf Awareness 05/21/2019
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2019
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2019 pg. 113
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 503314
Reading Level: 7.7   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 2.0
 
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Publisher Description:

David Macaulay, co-creator of the international bestseller The Way Things Work, brings his signature curiosity and detailing to the story of the steamship in this meticulously researched and stunningly illustrated book.

Prior to the 1800s, ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean relied on the wind in their sails to make their journeys. But invention of steam power ushered in a new era of transportation that would change ocean travel forever: the steamship.

Award-winning author-illustrator David Macaulay guides readers through the fascinating history that culminated in the building of the most advanced--and last--of these steamships: the SS United States. This book artfully explores the design and construction of the ship and the life of its designer and engineer, William Francis Gibbs.

Framed around the author's own experience steaming across the Atlantic on the very same SS United States, Crossing on Time is a tour de force of the art of explanation and a touching and surprising childhood story.

A 2020 NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended Book
2020 Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year List


Contributor Bio(s): Macaulay, David: - Born on December 2, 1946, David Macaulay was ten when his family moved from England to the United States. An early fascination with simple technology and a love of model making and drawing ultimately led him to study architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. He received his degree in 1969 after spending his fifth year with RISD's European Honors Program in Rome. The next four years were spent working in interior design, teaching junior and senior high school art and tinkering with the idea of making books. The tinkering paid off. His numerous awards include the MacArthur Fellowship, the Caldecott Medal, won for his book Black and White, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, the Washington Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Dutch Silver Slate Pencil Award, and the Bradford Washburn Award, presented by the Museum of Science in Boston to an outstanding contributor to science. He was U.S.nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in both 1984 and 2002. Macaulay currently lives with his family in Vermont.
 
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