Alan Marks, Jeff Lantos

Radar and the Raft

A True Story About a Scientific Marvel, the Lives it Saved, and the World it Changed

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Follow two storylines-one about the scientific discoveries that led to the creation of radar, the other about people stranded on a raft in WWII-that come together when radar finds the raft"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Charlesbridge Publishing, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781623543457
• ISBN-10: 1623543452
• Artikelnr.: 70691439

Autorenporträt

Jeff Lantos was a fifth-grade teacher in Pacific Palisades, California, where he often wrote history-based musicals for his students to perform. He still often works with schoolkids and history-based productions. A UCLA study showed that his students' retention of history is higher than their peers. He was nominated for a 2015 Excellence in Theatre Education Award from the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a degree from Brown University and has worked producing musicals on Broadway. Alan Marks began his career illustrating for magazines and newspapers in England. His first children's book Storm, written by Kevin Crossley Holland, won the Carnegie Medal. He is also the illustrator of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book A Mother’s Journey, as well as Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle, Planet Zoo, The Spirit of the Forest, and more. Alan lives in an old house in the Kent countryside with his wife and two daughters. www.marksonpaper.co.uk