Mr. Ferris and His Wheel

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Hardcover
Author: Kathryn Gibbs Davis
Illustrator: Gilbert Ford
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Publish Date: September 2014
Language: English
Reading Level: 5.1
EAN: 9780547959221

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Overview

Capturing an engineer’s creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world’s most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel.
A fun, fact-filled text by Kathryn Gibbs Davis combines with Gilbert Ford’s dazzling full-color illustrations to transport readers to the 1893 World’s Fair, where George Ferris and his big, wonderful wheel lifted passengers to the skies for the first time.

Details

Pages: 40
Dimensions: 10.3 x 10.1 x 0.4 in
Lexile Score: 900
Interest Level: Lower Grade (LG)
Point Value: 0.5
ISBN: 0547959222

Awards

2016 Beehive Awards - Nominee (Informational)
2016 Keystone to Reading Book Award - Nominee (Intermediate)
2016 Rhode Island Children's Book Awards - Nominee (Grades 3-6)
2015 Cook Prize - Honor Book (Picture Book)
2015 Orbis Pictus Award - Honor Book (Children's Nonfiction)