Description: Grade 4-6-- Faced with a dearth of known facts about Gutenberg, Burch uses an evocation of the time, place, and society in which his subject lived, together with a process of deduction, to fill in some of the details of the printer's life. The result is an interesting and credible biography of the feisty, determined, and oft-beset inventor, told with a minimum of fictionalisation. Aldrich's linoleum-block cover design and illustrations are striking, appropriate, and enhance the text. Unfortunately, the only reproduction of the Bible itself is a very small photo on the back jacket flap. Caselli's A German Printer (Peter Bedrick, 1987) describes in detail the printing craft in the late 1400s and is a good follow-up choice. --Tatiana Castleton, Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library, CACopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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EAN: 9780876145654
UPC: 9780876145654
ISBN: 9780876145654
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Book Title: Fine Print : a Story about Johann Gutenberg
Number of Pages: 64 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Topic: Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology, Biography & Autobiography / Historical, Historical
Publication Year: 1991
Item Height: 0.1 in
Illustrator: Yes, Aldrich, Kent Alan
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 3.7 Oz
Author: Joann Johansen Burch
Item Length: 8.8 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Book Series: Creative Minds Biographies Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
