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  • Published: 15 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9780375865411
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 48
  • RRP: $17.99

Sky Boys

How They Built The Empire State Building




The unbeatable team of Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome present a riveting brick-by-brick account of how one of the most amazing accomplishments in American architecture came to be. Join a young boy as he watches the Empire State Building being constructed from scratch, then travels to the top to look down on all of New York City in 1931. Hopkinson, a master of historical fiction, and Ransome, an award-winning illustrator, dazzle us with this ALA Notable and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book.

The unbeatable team of Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome present a riveting brick-by-brick account of how one of the most amazing accomplishments in American architecture came to be. Join a young boy as he watches the Empire State Building being constructed from scratch, then travels to the top to look down on all of New York City in 1931. Hopkinson, a master of historical fiction, and Ransome, an award-winning illustrator, dazzle us with this ALA Notable and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book.

  • Published: 15 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9780375865411
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 48
  • RRP: $17.99

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