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Hanging Off Jefferson's Nose: Growing Up On Mount Rushmore (2012)

by Tina Nichols Coury(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0803737319 (ISBN13: 9780803737310)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Dial

review 1: In this picture book biography, we meet the son of as he grows up in the shadows of Mt. Rushmore . The story is told through his eyes and recollections but it is a story of the nation as personalities and politics ebbed and flowed in the decades of work on the sculpture is told through his child-like eyes. Borglum's story is that of a boy who spent his childhood watching the progress and getting to know the workmen and families involved, eventually to take over the project and see it completed after his father passed away.
review 2: I did learn more about Mount Rushmore and the men behind it than I'd known before ... but as that was about zilch it wouldn't have taken much.It really is a remarkable piece of art.The illustrations were my favorite part. I would... more have loved to have seen at least one or two original photographs at the end.I think I will get it for our school collection anyway. The topic and front cover would be enough to pique some kiddos' interest. less

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