2017, Candlewick Press
HC $17.99
48 pgs.
Goodreads rating: 4.12 - 82 ratings
My rating: 4, interesting and cool
Endpapers: Red
Lots to read and look at!
1st line/s:: "Welcome to the greatest library in the world! We're going to take you on an amazing tour of its treasures -- including some that are so rare thay are kept under lock and key!"
My comments: An easy, interesting nonfiction book for early-middle grades that tells of many of the British Library's major holdings from the earliest ones on to the present. Interesting and relevant, including many well-known and a few lesser known British authors and writings. Included are early Christian writings, Beowulf, the Magna Carta, Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare, Dickens, Doyle....with a whole lot in between.
Goodreads: A tiny prayer book carried by a queen to her execution. An atlas so huge that it takes six people to lift it. A handmade gospel hidden in a saint's coffin, and Shakespearean folios so precious they are kept in a bombproof storeroom. From stories of man-eating monsters, brave knights, and wicked witches to tales of lost children, magical creatures, haunted moors, and flying machines, award-winning duo Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom bring to life the extraordinary history of the book through the treasures of one of the greatest libraries in the world: the British Library.
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