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Books! books! books! : explore the amazing collection of the British Library / Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 42 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780763697570
  • 0763697575
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Welcome -- The St. Cuthbert Gospel -- The Lindisfarne Gospels -- Beowulf -- The Magna Carta -- The Canterbury Tales -- The Klencke Atlas -- Lady Jane Grey's Prayer Book -- William Shakespeare -- Cookbooks -- Medical books -- Jane Austen -- the Bronte Sisters -- The Brothers Grimm -- Charles Dickens -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Charles Darwin -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Newspapers-The Times -- Sheet music-George Frideric Handel -- Sherlock Holmes -- More about the British Library.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 027.541 M284 Available 33111008958817
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 027.541 M284 Available 33111008816056
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Calling all young bibliophiles! Peek inside the world's greatest library and get the inside story on some of the rarest, oddest, most valuable, and best-loved books in its vaunted collection.

A tiny prayer book carried by a queen to her execution. An atlas so huge that it takes six people to lift it. A handmade gospel hidden in a saint's coffin, and Shakespearean folios so precious they are kept in a bombproof storeroom. From stories of man-eating monsters, brave knights, and wicked witches to tales of lost children, magical creatures, haunted moors, and flying machines, award-winning duo Mick Manning and Brita Granström bring to life the extraordinary history of the book through the treasures of one of the greatest libraries in the world: the British Library.

Includes bibliographical references.

Welcome -- The St. Cuthbert Gospel -- The Lindisfarne Gospels -- Beowulf -- The Magna Carta -- The Canterbury Tales -- The Klencke Atlas -- Lady Jane Grey's Prayer Book -- William Shakespeare -- Cookbooks -- Medical books -- Jane Austen -- the Bronte Sisters -- The Brothers Grimm -- Charles Dickens -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Charles Darwin -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Newspapers-The Times -- Sheet music-George Frideric Handel -- Sherlock Holmes -- More about the British Library.

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