A wizard from the start the incredible boyhood & amazing inventions of Thomas Edison

From his humble boyhood as a farmer's son, selling newspapers on trains, reading through public libraries shelf by shelf, and dreaming of new inventions, Thomas Edison went on to create the light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.

Main Author: Brown, Don, 1949-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010.
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Summary: From his humble boyhood as a farmer's son, selling newspapers on trains, reading through public libraries shelf by shelf, and dreaming of new inventions, Thomas Edison went on to create the light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780547194875 (reinforced) :
0547194870 (reinforced) :
Author Notes: Don Brown is the award-winning author and illustrator of many picture book biographies. He has been widely praised for his resonant storytelling and his delicate watercolor paintings that evoke the excitement, humor, pain, and joy of lives lived with passion. School Library Journal has called him "a current pacesetter who has put the finishing touches on the standards for storyographies." He lives in New York with his family.