Prince, April Jones: Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing.Prince, April Jones TWENTY-ONE ELEPHANTS AND STILL STANDING. Il. by Francois Roca. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-618-44887X. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers , 2005. Unp. $16.00. "Come one, come all to the Greatest Show on Earth," says P. T. Barnum. Barnum puts on one of the greatest shows New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. would ever see, but it is not in a circus tent--it is on the Brooklyn Bridge Brooklyn Bridge, vehicular suspension bridge, New York City, southernmost of the bridges across the East River, between lower Manhattan and Brooklyn; built 1869–83. The achievement of J. A. Roebling and his son W. A. Roebling, it has a span of 1,595. . In 1883, after 14 years of construction, the Brooklyn Bridge is complete, but is it safe? Amid all the celebrations, people are fearful the bridge will not be able to hold great amounts of weight. P. T. Barnum has all 21 of his circus elephants cross the bridge to prove the structural soundness of this modern marvel. The author's note offers additional details, and the exquisite illustrations evoke a feel of the era. Ages 6-10. Reviewed by Terre Sychterz, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA |
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