Perkins Perfect Purple: How a Boy Created Color with Chemistry

Brown, Tami Lewis, Dunn, Debbie Loren

ISBN 10: 1368032842 / ISBN 13: 9781368032841

Editore: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2020

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Riassunto:

The fascinating true story of groundbreaking chemist William Perkin, who used the scientific method to invent a new way for creating the color purple.

Informazioni sull?autore: Tami Lewis Brown is a former lawyer and elementary school librarian. She holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has written a novel for children and several picture books, including Instructions Not Included, co-written with Debbie Loren Dunn. Tami is always on the lookout for a new story to tell -- the more weird or wonderful the better. She lives with her family in Washington, DC.

Debbie Loren Dunn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in computer science and worked in the computer industry for twenty years, specializing in databases and data mining. She holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She loves true stories about people doing amazing things -- especially when others have told them they can't, or they shouldn't. She is the coauthor of Instructions Not Included and lives in Austin, Texas, with her family.

Francesca Sanna is an illustrator and children's book author, whose books include The Journey and Me and My Fear. She is a recipient of the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer and Illustrator Honor, the Parents' Choice Awards Gold Medal, and an Amnesty CILIP Kate Greenaway Honour, among others. When she was a teen, she dyed her hair purple, which made her feel extremely cool. Francesca grew up in Italy and is currently based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Perkins Perfect Purple: How a Boy Created ...
Casa editrice: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Data di pubblicazione: 2020
Legatura: Rilegato
Illustratore: Sanna, Francesca
Condizione: New