James Rumford: 2 books
by James Rumford
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road.
"Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks.
"Will they give us a pencil?"
"Will I learn to read?"
But when he and the other children arrive at the schoolyard, they find no classroom, no desks. Just a teacher....
From the Good Mountain
How Gutenberg Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
What was made of rags and bones, soot and seeds? What took a mountain to make?
For the answer, travel back to the fifteenth century—to a time when books were made by hand and a man named Johannes Gutenberg invented a way to print books with movable type.
Written as a series of riddles...