All Charged Up! and David Mandel. Foreword by George Lucas.

All Charged Up! and David Mandel. Foreword by George Lucas.Award winning author illustrator Don Brown explores the history of electricity in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World series. In 600 BCE, the Greek mathematician Thales observed a seemingly strange phenomenon: amber, when rubbed with a cloth, had the ability to attract lightweight objects like feathers, straw, and leaves. He had unknowingly discovered an electric charge. His experiments wouldnt be picked back up until about 2,000

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entertain and enchant

Georgianna Lane’s In Bloom series:

When Kent Wong was a young boy

remastered

Roston probes Vonnegut’s work

and today it provides a fascinating record of the 18th-century French and English silk industries and their commercial practices

and 20 imaginative projects ranging from decorative samplers and wall art to embellished clothing and household textiles

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Checkered tablecloths

which capture the heart of working-class London life