About this item
This Boston GlobendashHorn Book Honor Book and ALA-ALSC Notable Childrens Book provides a riveting brick-by-brick account of how one of the most amazing accomplishments in American architecture came to be Itrsquos and times are tough for Pop and his son But look On the corner of th Street and th Avenue a building straight and simple as a pencil is being built in record time Hundreds of men are leveling shoveling hauling Theyrsquore hoisting tons of steal stacking million bricks eating lunch in the clouds And when they cut ribbon and the crowds rush in the boy and his father will be among the first to zoom up to the top of the tallest building in the world and see all of Manhattan spread at their feet
About the Author
Deborah Hopkinson is as award-winning of picture books, fiction, and nonfiction for young readers. In 2013 she received a Robert F. Sibert Honor and YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award honor for Titanic: Voices from the Disaster. She has won the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text twice, for A Band of Angels and Apples to Oregon. Sky Boys, How They Built the Empire State Building, was a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor awardee. She lives near Portland, Oregon. The Great Trouble, A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel won the OCTE Oregon Spirit Award and was named a Best Book of 2013 by School Library Journal and an Oregon Book Award finalist.In 2017, Deborah's awards include the Leslie Bradshaw Oregon Book Award for Courage and Defiance; the Jane Addams Peace Association award for Steamboat School; and the Green Earth Environmental Stewardship Award for Follow the Moon Home, which was also a finalist for the Cook STEM prize. Her middle grade novel A Bandit's Tale, The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket was a Charlotte Huck Recommended book for fiction. Visit her on the web at www.deborahhopkinson.com and follow her on Twitter at @deborahopkinson.
