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Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives (2012)

by Gene Barretta(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0805091084 (ISBN13: 9780805091083)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

review 1: The subtitle tells it all---"How Edison Changed Our Lives". Highlights several of Edison's first experiments at the Menlo Park NJ Invention Factory and the second lab in West Orange NJ. He surrounded himself with scientists, mechanics, engineers, and artisans, and they eventually filled 3000 notebooks. The writing style, diagrams, and the illustrations offer a basic explanation of Edison's inventions. This book can easily be used in a "Past and Present" unit since each double spread shows the current utilization of Edison's invention, and the work in Edison's Lab to develop the idea. Lots of little details tucked inside the artwork which was executed in watercolor on Arches cold-press paper. Includes a Bibliography and Thomas Trivia. A pipe organ and baby bear in the Men... morelo Park Lab?
review 2: The illustrations and story in this book makes it very enjoyable and engaging to read for children. This book focuses on the life and inventions of Thomas Edison. It introduces him in the beginning and then every page compares our "present day" activities such as photocopying or recording, to "Edison's Lab" to show how it all began from his inventions and ideas. It also gives a good "moral" lesson that whenever he discovered something to work, he also discovered thousands of things that DIDN'T work. This would be a good themed lesson to young children to think positive and never give up. This would be an ideal lesson for the higher grades when they start learning about famous inventors/thinkers. Reading Level: 5.5Interest Level: K-3Accelerated Reading level: 5.5 Guided Reading Level: OFountas & Pinnell: O less

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