Author: Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763664413
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in this lively, kid-friendly book. Did you know that James West invented the microphone in your cell phone? That Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? Or that Dr. Percy Julian synthesized cortisone from soy, easing untold people’s pain? These are just some of the black inventors and innovators scoring big points in this dynamic look at several unsung heroes who shared a desire to improve people’s lives. Offering profiles with fast facts on flaps and framed by a funny contemporary story featuring two feisty twins, here is a nod to the minds behind the gamma electric cell and the ice-cream scoop, improvements to traffic lights, open-heart surgery, and more — inventors whose ingenuity and perseverance against great odds made our world safer, better, and brighter. Back matter includes an authors’ note and sources.
What Color Is My World?
Author: Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763664413
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in this lively, kid-friendly book. Did you know that James West invented the microphone in your cell phone? That Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? Or that Dr. Percy Julian synthesized cortisone from soy, easing untold people’s pain? These are just some of the black inventors and innovators scoring big points in this dynamic look at several unsung heroes who shared a desire to improve people’s lives. Offering profiles with fast facts on flaps and framed by a funny contemporary story featuring two feisty twins, here is a nod to the minds behind the gamma electric cell and the ice-cream scoop, improvements to traffic lights, open-heart surgery, and more — inventors whose ingenuity and perseverance against great odds made our world safer, better, and brighter. Back matter includes an authors’ note and sources.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763664413
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in this lively, kid-friendly book. Did you know that James West invented the microphone in your cell phone? That Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? Or that Dr. Percy Julian synthesized cortisone from soy, easing untold people’s pain? These are just some of the black inventors and innovators scoring big points in this dynamic look at several unsung heroes who shared a desire to improve people’s lives. Offering profiles with fast facts on flaps and framed by a funny contemporary story featuring two feisty twins, here is a nod to the minds behind the gamma electric cell and the ice-cream scoop, improvements to traffic lights, open-heart surgery, and more — inventors whose ingenuity and perseverance against great odds made our world safer, better, and brighter. Back matter includes an authors’ note and sources.
Color My World!
Author: Quinlan B. Lee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439625005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Follows Barney and his friends as they explore the world of colors. On board pages.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439625005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Follows Barney and his friends as they explore the world of colors. On board pages.
My World of Color
Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439450652
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Rhyming verses describe things that are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, gray, white, and pink.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439450652
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Rhyming verses describe things that are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, gray, white, and pink.
Color My World
Author: Debbie Mancini-Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780978758608
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780978758608
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Color of My Words
Author: Lynn Joseph
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062970348
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Américas Award Winner “An achingly beautiful story.”—Kirkus (starred review) “Eloquent.”—Booklist (starred review) “Lovely and lyrical.”—School Library Journal This powerful and resonant Américas Award-winning novel tells the story of a young girl’s struggle to find her place in the world and to become a writer in a country where words are feared. Seamlessly interweaving both poetry and prose, Lynn Joseph’s acclaimed debut is a lush and lyrical journey into a landscape and culture of the Dominican Republic. The Color of My Words explores the pain and poetry of discovering what it means to be part of a family, what it takes to find your voice and the means for it to be heard, and how it feels to write it all down.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062970348
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Américas Award Winner “An achingly beautiful story.”—Kirkus (starred review) “Eloquent.”—Booklist (starred review) “Lovely and lyrical.”—School Library Journal This powerful and resonant Américas Award-winning novel tells the story of a young girl’s struggle to find her place in the world and to become a writer in a country where words are feared. Seamlessly interweaving both poetry and prose, Lynn Joseph’s acclaimed debut is a lush and lyrical journey into a landscape and culture of the Dominican Republic. The Color of My Words explores the pain and poetry of discovering what it means to be part of a family, what it takes to find your voice and the means for it to be heard, and how it feels to write it all down.
The World According to Color
Author: James Fox
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 125027852X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green—and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history. Through a series of stories and vignettes, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and, ultimately, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes, fears, prejudices, and preoccupations. Fox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue. And using his background as an art historian, he explores many of the milestones in the history of art—from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein—in a fresh way. Fox also weaves in literature, philosophy, cinema, archaeology, and art—moving from Monet to Marco Polo, early Japanese ink artists to Shakespeare and Goethe to James Bond. By creating a new history of color, Fox reveals a new story about humans and our place in the universe: second only to language, color is the greatest carrier of cultural meaning in our world.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 125027852X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green—and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history. Through a series of stories and vignettes, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and, ultimately, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes, fears, prejudices, and preoccupations. Fox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue. And using his background as an art historian, he explores many of the milestones in the history of art—from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein—in a fresh way. Fox also weaves in literature, philosophy, cinema, archaeology, and art—moving from Monet to Marco Polo, early Japanese ink artists to Shakespeare and Goethe to James Bond. By creating a new history of color, Fox reveals a new story about humans and our place in the universe: second only to language, color is the greatest carrier of cultural meaning in our world.
A World Without Color
Author: John Amos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692034286
Category : Colors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
a child's look at how diversity makes our world better
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692034286
Category : Colors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
a child's look at how diversity makes our world better
Finding the Color in My Black and White World
Author: Brielle Corrente
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781497509603
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
When a witch's curse takes away a beautiful princess's ability to see color, the princess must learn to find the true colors in her world in order to break the spell.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781497509603
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
When a witch's curse takes away a beautiful princess's ability to see color, the princess must learn to find the true colors in her world in order to break the spell.
When I Coloured in the World
Author: Ahmadreza Ahmadi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910328224
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910328224
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Color My World with Love
Author: Carolyn Sutton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816366606
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816366606
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description