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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2008
Gr 2-4 From the time children open the cover, everything about this oversize book speaks to the grand scale of steel and iron production circa 1935. Readers are drawn immediately into the heat and the grime of a steel town, from the tall trim size to the steely endpapers. The acrylic artwork creates an atmosphere o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2008
Welcome to Steel Town, where power hits the pillow in a bedtime story like no other. "This is where it all begins: / big beams used to make buildings / and bridges / and railroad rails, / big sheets used to make cars / and ships / and airplanes / and cans that food goes into. / Steel, steel, everywhere steel." The front jacket, a literal deus ex machina depicting a man, arms raised in the air, defying a giant vat of pig iro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
Widener's strong acrylics of man and machine meld with Winter's fluid prose as a day in the life of the s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More