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Steel Town (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781416940814)
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xIn Steel Town,
it's always dark.
In Steel Town,
it's always raining... In Steel Town, the mills blaze all day and all night, making steel and even more steel to be shipped over the Magic Mountains, down the Pitch-Black River, and far, far away. The men who work in the mills work as hard as the machines that make the steel, never stopping. But when the men go home at night, a different side of Steel Town emerges -- one filled with music and neighbors, pierogies and spaghetti, churches and front porches.
This gritty yet poetic world is brought to life through Jonah Winter's lyrical, rhythmic text and Terry Widener's luscious, nocturnal illustrations, whose massive figures glow with the few lights that shine through this darkness. This is a portrait of an imaginary town derived from the very real American steel towns of the 1930s, when the sky was often black as night all day and the cavernous mills belched out fire and smoke. Here is a journey to a town that time has not forgotten, just misplaced: Steel Town.
Author: Jonah Winter
ISBN-10: 1416940812
ISBN-13: 9781416940814
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2008
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 12.13h x 9.36w x 0.42d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 122854 / Steel Town
Award: Parents Choice Awards (Spring) (2008-Up) - Silver Medal Winner
Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 05/01/2008 pg. 112
Booklist 04/01/2008 pg. 59
Kirkus Review - Children 05/01/2008 pg. 502
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2008 pg. 436
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2008 pg. 501 - Book Of Special Distinction
Hornbook Guide to Children 10/01/2008 pg. 321 - Superior,Well Above Average
Kirkus Best Children's Books 11/15/2008 pg. 22
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2008 pg. 321 - Superior,Well Above Average
it's always dark.
In Steel Town,
it's always raining... In Steel Town, the mills blaze all day and all night, making steel and even more steel to be shipped over the Magic Mountains, down the Pitch-Black River, and far, far away. The men who work in the mills work as hard as the machines that make the steel, never stopping. But when the men go home at night, a different side of Steel Town emerges -- one filled with music and neighbors, pierogies and spaghetti, churches and front porches.
This gritty yet poetic world is brought to life through Jonah Winter's lyrical, rhythmic text and Terry Widener's luscious, nocturnal illustrations, whose massive figures glow with the few lights that shine through this darkness. This is a portrait of an imaginary town derived from the very real American steel towns of the 1930s, when the sky was often black as night all day and the cavernous mills belched out fire and smoke. Here is a journey to a town that time has not forgotten, just misplaced: Steel Town.
Author: Jonah Winter
ISBN-10: 1416940812
ISBN-13: 9781416940814
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2008
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 12.13h x 9.36w x 0.42d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 122854 / Steel Town
Award: Parents Choice Awards (Spring) (2008-Up) - Silver Medal Winner
Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 05/01/2008 pg. 112
Booklist 04/01/2008 pg. 59
Kirkus Review - Children 05/01/2008 pg. 502
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2008 pg. 436
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2008 pg. 501 - Book Of Special Distinction
Hornbook Guide to Children 10/01/2008 pg. 321 - Superior,Well Above Average
Kirkus Best Children's Books 11/15/2008 pg. 22
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2008 pg. 321 - Superior,Well Above Average
By Jonah Winter
xJonah Winter is the award-winning author of more than forty nonfiction picture books that promote environmental awareness and social and racial justice. Among them are The Snow Man; The Little Owl & the Big Tree: A Christmas Story; Oil; The Secret Project; Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality; My Name is James Madison Hemings; Barack; The Founding Fathers!; and Lillian's Right to Vote, a Jane Addams Children's Book Award recipient and Kirkus Prize finalist. Terry Widener is an award-winning illustrator whose picture books include Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man by David A. Adler, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book, and America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle, also by David A. Adler, a Junior Library Guild Selection. He is also the illustrator of Peg and the Whale by Kenneth Oppel and If the Shoe Fit by Gary Soto. Mr. Widener lives with his wife and three children in McKinney, Texas.
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