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Up goes the skyscraper

"Updated to include the latest building techniques, this exciting book takes readers to new heights as they learn how skyscrapers are built step by step, from architectural drawings to the foundation to ironworkers building 30 stories up"--

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Main Author: Gibbons, Gail (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Holiday House, [2023]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Gibbons, Gail. Explore the world with Gail Gibbons.
Subjects:
Skyscrapers > Design and construction > Juvenile nonfiction.
Towers > Design and construction > Juvenile nonfiction.
Architecture > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:"Updated to include the latest building techniques, this exciting book takes readers to new heights as they learn how skyscrapers are built step by step, from architectural drawings to the foundation to ironworkers building 30 stories up"--
Item Description:"New and updated."
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
ISBN:9780823452101
0823452107
Author Notes:Gail Gibbons was born in 1944 in Oak Park, Illinois. She received a degree in graphic design from the University of Illinois. She got a job doing artwork for television shows in New York City. She was eventually offered a job creating art for a children's show, where some of the children asked her if she had ever considered doing a children's books. Her first book, Willy and His Wheel Wagon, was published in 1975. Since then she has written and illustrated more than 170 non-fiction books for children including Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests.

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