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- Alvin Toffler
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ZIN Product Number: 10281566
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 40 pages
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0803716060
Release Date: Jan 1, 2004
Age Range: 4 to 8
| |  | | | In Brief
This is a retelling of the legend of John Henry. "Lester's tale relates how animals came to witness his birth and the sun stayed up just to get a peep at him. John Henry grew through the roof the day he was born and helped his father add a new wing onto the house the next day. . . . Then he won a raceagainst Ferret-Faced Freddy, with John Henry on foot and Ferret-Faced Freddy on his horse. But John Henry's greatest feat . . . {was his} contest with thesteam drill, trying to dig a railroad tunnel through a mountain in West Virginia. With his sledgehammer, he worked against the steam drill all night, and when morning came, John Henry had drilled a mile and quarter against the steamdrill's quarter." (Horn Book) "Kindergarten to grade five." (SLJ)
| | | | From The Publisher
The stunning 1995 Caldecott Honor Book<P>John Henry is stronger than ten men, and can dig through a mountain faster than a steam drill. Julius Lester's folksy retelling of a popular African-American folk ballad has warmth, tall tale humor, and boundless energy. Jerry Pinkney illustrates the story with "rich colors borrowed from the rocks and the earth, so beautiful that they summon their own share of smiles and tears" (Booklist).<P>"A tall tale and heroic myth, a celebration of the human spirit....The story is told with rhythm and wit, humor and exaggeration, and with a heart-catching immediacy that connects the human and the natural world." --<i>Booklist</i>, starred review<P>* A Caldecott Honor Book<br>* Winner of the Society of Illustrators' Gold Medal<br>* An ALA Notable Book<br>* An NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies<br>* Winner of the <i>Boston Globe</i>/<i>Horn Book</i> Award<br>* <i>The Horn Book</i> Fanfare List<br>* A <i>Parents Magazine</i> Best Children's Book of the Year<br>* A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book<br>* Winner of the Aesop Prize<P>* A Picture Puffin <br>* Full-color illustrations <br>* 40 pages <br>* Ages 4 up
| | | | Annotation
Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
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