Mount Rushmore
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Have you ever seen a face that’s taller than a house? People come from across the country to see the huge faces on Mount Rushmore. Four U.S. presidents are carved on this tall mountain. Just whose idea was Mount Rushmore? And how did workers carve this amazing sculpture? Read this book to find out.
Learn about many remarkable sites in the Famous Places series—part of the Lightning Bolt Books™ collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books™ bring nonfiction topics to life.
Judith Jango-Cohen
Judith Jango-Cohen's career began in the classroom, where she created lessons to excite her students' interest in science. Eleven years later, after the birth of her two children, she turned to writing full time. Her adventures as a naturalist and photographer have inspired her forty-two books, which cover an assortment of subjects from Bionics to Ben Franklin and from ladybugs to librarians. Besides researching and writing books, Judith also writes science news stories for Scholastic classroom magazines. As a former teacher, Judith loves visiting classrooms and libraries to share her stories as a writer/photographer and to help children learn to express themselves through poetry and prose. She also enjoys meeting teachers and librarians when she presents programs at conferences. Judith's titles have been selected for the Children's Choices Reading List by the IRA/CBC, recommended by the National Science Teacher’s Association, chosen for the Children's Literature Choice List, named a Notable Social Studies Trade Book by the NCSS/CBC, and selected as Best Children's Books of the Year by the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is about mount Rushmore in north Dakota. This book has many good facts including pictures of Mount Rushmore. It also tells you some facts about the faces on the rock. If you don't know already ,the faces on the rock are Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Roosevelt and ... You'll have to find out! This book is great for traveling there, like me. To send that was helpful because it was helpful because it gave specifics and very good facts about mount Rushmore. It encouraged me to go there ,so I will, and I hope you do too.