Means of Transport That Changed The World

• Utgivningsdatum: 2022-08-18
• Mått: 220 x 269 x 13 mm
• Vikt: 546 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Means of Transport
• Antal sidor: 64
• Förlag: Albatros nakladatelstvi as
• Illustratör: Martin Sodomka
• ISBN: 9788000063553

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Tom Velcovsky is an author and creator of children's nonfiction books. He studied Audiovisual Production at the Silesian University in Opava, where he specialized in screenwriting and storyboards. After working in advertising, he devoted himself fully to creating children's books and comic strips. He is best known for books that introduce young readers to history, science, technology, architecture, and the natural world in an accessible and visually engaging way, and he belongs to a new generation of Czech children's nonfiction authors whose works combine carefully crafted content with distinctive illustration. Velcovsky is the author or co-author of a number of titles, including Famous Finds and Finders, How the New Seven Wonders of the World Were Built, Means of Transport That Almost Changed the World, and The Origins of Sports. He currently resides in the Czech Republic.Stepanka Sekaninova is a graduate in Czech and History from the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. She used to work as a TV reporter and in the production of children's programs but has always longed to write. Now she is realizing her childhood dream as a writer and editor-in-chief at Albatros Media. Stepanka lives in the Czech Republic.Martin Sodomka was born in 1968 and he studied at the Department of Industrial Design Management. His first job was as a design engineer. In 1993 he founded a graphics studio. In 2012 he published, at his own expense, How to Build a Car, the first book in the Technical Tales series; this book was inspired by his restoration of a classic car (1963 Škoda Octavia). This book became an immediate bestseller and was translated into ten languages. Martin Sodomka is married with two children.

Selected for the CBC’s 2022 July Hot Off The Press Reading List"What did you like about the book? This illustrated compendium takes a detailed look at various innovations in transportation from the 3rd century BCE to the space shuttle Columbia in 1981 (nicely laid out as a timeline on the front and rear endpapers). The list of vehicles covered will excite the interest of fans of trains, planes, and automobiles and includes both the well known (double-decker buses, the Model T, the Orient Express) and the obscure (Grenville’s steam carriage, the Tatra 87). Each two-page spread is dominated by riveting, hand drawn illustrations by Sodomka, predominantly black-and-white but with striking color accents. Often there’s a full shot of the vehicle, accompanied by a close-up of an attribute of particular interest. We see an enlarged view of the Benz Patent Motorwagon, but also a detailed sketch of its 4-stroke engine. A striking illustration of an iconic green VW Transporter (popularly known as the Microbus) appears alongside a smaller sketch of its military ancestor, the Type 82 Kübelwagen. Detailed and folksy essays accompany each vehicle, asking readers personal questions (what do you think about when you hear the word London? how many vans did you see on your way to school?) and providing historical information. Neatly drawn talk bubbles provide extra information." ―Youth Services Book"Means of Transport that Changed the World is the perfect book for older elementary, and even junior high, students. Readers learn about specific transportation vehicles like the Santa Maria, Golden State Coach, Grenville’s Steam Carriage, Ford Model T, Hindenburg, Shinkansen and Space Shuttle Columbia." ―Red Poppy Reading, IG

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