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Alexander Graham Bell by Emma Fischel
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland, but moved first for health reasons to Canada, and then to the United States to continue his work as a professor of vocal physiology - how people talk. He put this interest and a fascination for electricity together and began to experiment with transmitting voi ...Show more
Elizabeth I (Famous People & Great Events) by Harriet Castor
Category: History | Series: Famous People, Great Events
Entertaining stories of real famous lives and great events in a picture book format.
George Stephenson by Emma Fischel
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
Each title in this series tells the story of a man or woman whose dedication to their chosen cause led to changes that affect all our lives today. Each includes a vivid description of the world in which the famous person lived. This title explores the life of locomotive pioneer George Stephenson.
James Watt by Nicola Baxter
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
Each title in this series tells the story of a man or woman whose dedication to their chosen cause led to changes that affect all our lives today. Each includes a vivid description of the world in which the famous person lived. In this book, the reader learns that James Watt was a scientific instrument ...Show more
John Logie Baird by Nicola Baxter
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
Each title in this series tells the story of a man or woman whose dedication to their chosen cause led to changes that affect all our lives today. Each includes a vivid description of the world in which the famous person lived. This book tells how the television, now a feature of almost every household ...Show more
Louis Pasteur by Karen Wallace
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
The book describes how Louis Pasteur was born into a Europe still plagued by horrendous diseases, such as cholera and typhoid, and how he discovered that it was germs living in the air and in food that caused illnesses. The reader learns that his pioneering of a method of heating food just enough to kil ...Show more
Martin Luther King (Famous People & Great Events) by Verna Allette Wilkins
Category: History | Series: Famous People, Great Events
Entertaining stories of real famous lives and great events in a picture book format.
Muhammad Ali (Famous People) by Peter Hook
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People
This book follows Mohammed Ali's life through a combination of simple text, photographs, captions and quotation panels. Each book contains a glossary, a date chart, further information and an index.
The Great Fire of London (Famous People & Great Events) by Gillian Clements
Category: History | Series: Famous People, Great Events
Entertaining stories of real famous lives and great events in a picture book format.
The Gunpowder Plot (Famous People & Great Events) by Gillian Clements
Category: History | Series: Famous People, Great Events
Entertaining stories of real famous lives and great events in a picture book format.
Thomas Edison by Karen Wallace
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
At school, Thomas Edison's teachers think he is stupid. How wrong they are! Instead he becomes one of the greatest inventors of his day, creating the electric light bulb and an early record player, to name but two. Ages 5+.
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