This Bridge Will Not Be Gray
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Chronicle Books LLC 2018
Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 0.5
Lexile measure:
700L
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Description
A "witty [and] compelling" true story for kids about San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge—and why it's orange—by the New York Times–bestselling author! (Fast Company).
In this delightfully original nonfiction book, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers tackles one of the most famous architectural monuments in the world: the Golden Gate Bridge—and all the arguments and debates about building it and what it should look like. Cut-paper illustrations by Tucker Nichols enliven the tale, and this revised edition also includes real-life letters from local constituents making the case for keeping the bridge orange.
With sly humor and lots of fascinating historical facts, this is an accessible, enjoyable read for kids (or adults), transporting readers to the glorious Golden Gate no matter where they live.
"Eggers's featherlight humor provides laughs throughout." —Publishers Weekly (starred review).
"A love letter to infrastructure." —The New York Times
"A story compelling enough to keep adults interested as they read it (and re-read it and re-read it) each night at bedtime." —Fast Company
In this delightfully original nonfiction book, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers tackles one of the most famous architectural monuments in the world: the Golden Gate Bridge—and all the arguments and debates about building it and what it should look like. Cut-paper illustrations by Tucker Nichols enliven the tale, and this revised edition also includes real-life letters from local constituents making the case for keeping the bridge orange.
With sly humor and lots of fascinating historical facts, this is an accessible, enjoyable read for kids (or adults), transporting readers to the glorious Golden Gate no matter where they live.
"Eggers's featherlight humor provides laughs throughout." —Publishers Weekly (starred review).
"A love letter to infrastructure." —The New York Times
"A story compelling enough to keep adults interested as they read it (and re-read it and re-read it) each night at bedtime." —Fast Company
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Format:
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Street Date:
03/13/2018
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781452165868
ASIN:
B07756FFS7
Accelerated Reader:
LG
Level 4.5, 0.5 Points
Level 4.5, 0.5 Points
Lexile measure:
700
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Dave Eggers. (2018). This Bridge Will Not Be Gray. Chronicle Books LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Dave Eggers. 2018. This Bridge Will Not Be Gray. Chronicle Books LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Dave Eggers, This Bridge Will Not Be Gray. Chronicle Books LLC, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Dave Eggers. This Bridge Will Not Be Gray. Chronicle Books LLC, 2018.
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"Eggers's featherlight humor provides laughs throughout." —Publishers Weekly (starred review).
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Simple questions make fine picture books. Why is the Golden Gate Bridge orange? National Book Award finalist Eggers (A Hologram for the King) begins before the bridge was built, as some Bay Area residents protest the idea: “It will mar the beauty of the land, they said. What’s wrong with boats? they said.” But the project goes ahead, and public opinion swings around to support it. Eggers’s featherlight humor provides laughs throughout, as in the description of the bridge’s steel parts journeying through the Panama Canal: “It was a long trip, but the pieces of steel did not mind, for they are inanimate objects.” Although the Navy wants to stripe the bridge black and yellow, and most people expect it to be gray, Irving Morrow, the project’s idiosyncratic champion, defends the vivid orange of the steel’s anti-rust paint, making the proclamation that gives the book its title. Nichols’s (Crabtree) construction-paper cutouts and hand-lettering provide a series of puckish visual counterpoints for the story’s two important messages: that situations and objects that appear unchangeable do, in fact, come from somewhere, and that adults can squabble even more foolishly than children. Ages 3–up.
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