Barbara Kramer (1)

There are so many pictures of archological sites, movie representations, coins, sculptures, and other art that provide interesting visual information for readers to look at while reading. The National Geographic format has timelines, fun facts, vocabulary, and context embedded in the text as well, which is incredibly helpful to note while reading. The book provides information about Cleopatra’s life, and also shares the information that may or may not be true. It does a great job of being interesting and informative for its target age group, but it was also interesting for me to read, too.… (altro)

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish inventor who transformed how we communicate with each other way back in 1876 with his invention of the telephone. When Bell was a little boy, he used to watch attentively as his father taught deaf students how to communicate. His father probably discovered this because Alexander's mother was deaf. Deaf or not, she was a very good pianist, even teaching Alexander how to play. So, by an early age, that brain of his was already working overtime. Bell invented a wheat husker, a machine for sifting the husks off of wheat during harvesting. But it wasn't until Bell traveled from homeland Scotland to Boston and met Watson that Bell began to dream of another invention. The lines of communication were now opened, and the telephone was invented.… (altro)