This bridge will not be gray / story by Dave Eggers ; art by Tucker Nichols.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781452162805
- 1452162808
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 624.2309 E29 | Available | 33111009193406 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this delightfully original take on nonfiction, bestselling author Dave Eggers tackles one of the most famous architectural and natural monuments in the world: the Golden Gate Bridge. Cut-paper illustrations by Tucker Nichols ensures that this book feels like a special object, and the revised edition includes real-life letters from constituents making the case for keeping the bridge orange. The narrative's sly humor makes the topic perfectly accessible for kids enthusiastic about nonfiction. This one-of-a-kind book transports readers to the glorious Golden Gate, no matter where they live.
"Originally published in 2015 by McSweeney's."
Tells the story of the making of the Golden Gate Bridge and how it came to be its distinctive color of orange through the persistence and vision of a few individuals.