  | Golden Gate : building the mighty bridge Author: Partridge, Elizabeth | |
| Price: $23.98 | ||
Summary:
The awe-inspiring and groundbreaking construction of the beloved landmark and symbol of San Francisco. Built across a treacherous strait during the Great Depression, the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge was an unprecedented, awe-inspiring feat, and truly a testament to the power of hope, perseverance, and human ingenuity's ability to defy the odds.
| Illustrator: | Heck, Ellen |
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: LG Reading Level: 5.10 Points: .5 Quiz: 555526 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (09/15/24)
School Library Journal (+) (00/10/24)
Booklist (09/15/24)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (09/00/24)
The Hornbook (00/09/24)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 09/15/2024 Using second-person narration—which Heck supplements by placing two young San Franciscans, a brother and a sister, in every illustration—Partridge invites young readers to take ringside seats to the construction of the mighty Golden Gate Bridge. While long, schematic panels running along the bottom indicate the project's overall progress from blueprints to opening-day festivities, the larger, carefully detailed, and dramatically angled scenes show huge red towers rising up in stages from ground level. Tiny workers clamber over the immense beams, threading in cables as the two young observers look up. In both her main account and her afterword, Partridge provides clear pictures of the project’s many challenges; in the latter, she adds a nod to the construction crews—in particular, the group of skilled Mohawk ironworkers—and acknowledges the 11 men who died despite stringent safety precautions. As the two children lead the inaugural crowd surging onto the finished bridge to the sound of foghorns on a May day in 1937, it’s hard not to join in the giddy rush. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
